J. A. Primm, 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

J. A. Primm, is another of the successful and enterprising farmers of Calhoun County, Hampton post-office, Champagnolle Township, and was
born in Shelby County, Alabama on July 16, 1847, the fifth child born to the union of John T. Primm and Nancy Abbott, the former a native of
South Carolina and the latter of Mississippi. The marriage took place in Shelby County, Alabama about 1830, from where they moved to Union
County, Arkansas, in 1847, where they continued to reside until the death of the father in 1862. The mother then resided with her son (our
subject) until her death in 1878. At the age of twenty-one our subject began doing for himself, engaging in farming, which has since been his
occupation. He now owns 160 acres of land with fifty-five acres under cultivation. In October, 1869, Mr. Primm was married to Miss E. E.
McClanahan, who died tow weeks after her marriage. November 23, 1871, he was again married, this time to Miss T. H. Dunn. Her parents, Allen
and Harriet Dunn, were married in Alabama and moved to Arkansas settling in Calhoun County about 1845. To this second union were born
seven children, viz: Lucy M., John T., Cornelius B., Charlie N., James D., Allen D. and Elias O. With the exception of Lucy M., who died October
4, 1872, the children are all living at home. Mr. Primm enlisted in the Confederate service of the late war in the latter part of 1863 in Company A,
Bird's Battalion, First Trans-Mississippi Cavalry, and served as private under Captain Ed Crawford until the close of the war, most of the time on
detached duty. Mr. Primm is a member of the Masonic fraternity, which he joined in 1872; he is also a member of the Agricultural Wheel, which
he joined in 1886. He is a stanch Democrat, but does not take a very active part in politics. Both he and wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, since 1881, of which Mr. Primm is also steward; he is also steward of the Bearden Circuit. He is a good citizen, and is
respected by all who know him.