Abram A. Nettles, 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

Abram A. Nettles, a resident of Calhoun County, Hampton post office, Champagnolle Township, was born in Lowndes County, Alabama,
January 19, 1830, a son of John H. and Elizabeth (Crimm) Nettles, natives of Fairfield District, South Carolina. They moved from South Carolina
to Alabama, in which latter State they died. Our subject was reared and schooled in Alabama, received a fair education at the common country
schools, and commenced doing for himself at the age of twenty years, when he came to Arkansas and settled in Union County, where he
resided until 1856. He then came to Calhoun County, where he settled permanently, and has since resided on his farm, consisting of 100 acres of
land, fifty acres of which he has under cultivation. In 1851 he was married to Miss L. C. McElroy, daughter of James A. and Sarah (Pousomby)
McElroy, natives of Alabama. To this union were born four children, viz: Sarah E. (who died in 1854), Martha L. (died in 1855), Walter S. (died in
1857) and Iva N. (at home). Mr. Nettles enlisted as a private in 1861, in the Confederate army, in Company K, of an Arkansas regiment, and
served until the close of the war. He was engaged on forced marches to battles of Elkhorn, Poison Springs (Arkansas), Mansfield (Louisiana),
Jenkins' Ferry (Arkansas), and was also engaged in numerous skirmishes. Mr. Nettles affiliates with the Democratic party, but does not take an
active interest in politics. He was elected and served one term as magistrate. Mr. Nettles is a member of the Masonic fraternity, which he joined
in 1856, also of the Farmers' Union, which he joined in 1887. Mr. and Mrs. Nettles and child are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South. He has been very successful in his farming, is a good neighbor, and is also a liberal supporter of all laudable public enterprises.