H. M. Lucas, 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

H. M. Lucas, a prominent farmer in Jackson Township, was born in Tennessee in 1832, the eldest of a family of ten children born to Ansil and
Frances (Johnson) Lucas, natives of Tennessee and North Carolina, respectively. His father lives in Tennessee, where he was engaged in
farming until his death, which occurred in 1845; his widow died in 1875. Our subject was reared on a farm, attending the common schools, until
he reached the age of nineteen years and then began farming for himself. He purchased a farm and then sold it, and in 1851, came to Arkansas,
settling in Jackson Township, Calhoun County, where he rented for a few years, and then entered the farm on which he now resides, consisting
of 153 acres, forty acres of which he has cleared. He has a good orchard, fair buildings and does general farming, raising cotton and corn, the
former of which yields one-half bale to the acre, and the latter fifteen bushels. In 1857 Mr. Lucas was united to Miss Josephine Russell, a native
of Alabama. She died in 1871, leaving five children, viz: Mary Frances, Martha Anne, Elizabeth (who died in 1884, at the age of 20 years),
Malinda (wife of George Williams, residing in Jackson Township), and William Monroe. In 1873 Mr. Lucas was again united in marriage, this
time to Miss Elizabeth Harcrow, daughter of Harris Harcrow, an old settler in this county. To this union were born three children, viz: Janetta,
Sallie, and Myra (who died in 1885). Mrs. Lucas died in 1885, and in 1980 Mr. Lucas married Mrs. Josephine Webb. Mr. Lucas is an advocate of
schools and churches, being a consistent member of the Canaan Baptist Church, and is active in all meritorious enterprises. In 1862 he enlisted
in Company B, Twenty-fourth Arkansas Regiment and was in the battles at Arkansas Post. He was with Price on his celebrated Missouri raid,
and participated in all the battles of that campaign. At the close of the war he returned to Arkansas, and engaged in farming.