Anthony Halloway, Calhoun County, AR

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SOURCE: Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
Contributed by Carol Smith.
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Calhoun County, Arkansas - from Goodspeed's History of Arkansas

Anthony Halloway, a substantial farmer of Moro Township, Fordyce post-office, was born in Troup County, Georgia, July 25, 1846. His father,
Allen Halloway, a native of Putnam County, Georgia, born in 1811, was married in Georgia to Miss Susan Ann Shaw, born in Greene County in
1817, and by her had seven children, six of whom lived to be grown, and four whom - two sons and two daughters - are still living. His father
was a farmer by occupation, and was a son of Anthony Halloway, Sr., who was born in Virginia, and died in Troup County in his eighty-first
year. Allen Halloway died in Troup County, Georgia, in 1848, and his wife died in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. The subject of this sketch was the
sixth child born to Mr. and Mrs. Allen Halloway, and lived in Georgia until he was twenty-one years of age. In his twenty -second year he
moved, with his mother and sisters to Louisiana, where he was married in 1873 to Miss Frances Chambers, a native of Greene County, Alabama,
born in 1850. She died in Louisiana in 1882 and in February, 1883, Mr. Halloway was again married, this time to Miss Mary Catherine Stroud, a
native of Chambers County, Alabama, born in 1842, and in December, 1883, they moved to the farm where they now live. This farm consisting of
290, acres of find land, is located eighteen miles north of county seat, and three miles south of Fordyce, on the Cotton Belt Railroad. Mr.
Halloway has about 140 acres of this land under cultivation on which he has erected good, substantial buildings. In June, 1864, Mr. Halloway
enlisted in the Confederate army, in Company F., Fourth Georgia State Reserves, and served seven months, most of the time at Andersonville
prison, guarding the prisoners. In political matters he is a Democrat, and cast his first vote for Seymour. In religious matters both he and hi wife
are members of the Primitive Baptist Church. His first wife was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. Mr. Halloway is one of the
stockholders in the District Fair held at Fordyce, of which he is also a director. He is a a prominent and well-to-do citizen, and takes a deep
interest in all public enterprises.