Huphrey A. Tomlinson, 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

Huphrey A. Tomlinson, a resident of Calhoun County, Hampton post office, Polk Township, was born in Iredell County, North Carolina, March
15, 1824, the third child born to Archibald and Margaret (Claywell) Tomlinson, natives of Maryland and Virginia, respectively. They settled in
North Carolina, and from there in 1840, they moved to Fulton County, Georgia where they continued to reside until 1864. They then emigrated to
Albany, Georgia, where they both died in 1866. Our subject was partially raised in North Carolina and partly in Georgia, and in both of these
States he attended the common schools, and received such an education at these schools afforded. At the age of twenty-one he began doing
for himself. He first engaged in railroading, which he followed for thirteen years, then farmed for two years, and then returned to railroading,
which pursuit he followed for twenty one years. In March, 1862, he enlisted in the Confederate service and served as orderly sergeant under
Captain Williams, in the Nineteenth Arkansas Regiment, where he continued to served until the close of the war. The principal engagement he
was in, was the battles of Baker Creek and Big Black in 1863, when he was captured and taken to Fort Delaware, where he lay in prison for four
months. From there he was carried to Point Lookout, Maryland, where he was confined in prison four months more. He was then carried to
Richmond and exchanged on parole. He then lay in Richmond about one month, and from there returned to his home in Union County,
Arkansas when he was ordered to report, which he did, and served under Capt. John Meek, until the close of the war. Mr. Tomlinson was
married in 1854, to Miss M. A. V. Harrison, a native of Georgia, daughter of William and Nancy Harrison. To this union there were born thirteen
children, eight of whom are living. They are as follows: William A., Georgia M., Margaret C., Humphrey A., Nettie, Robert L., Rollin A. and Irma.
Since 1865 our subject has been engaged in farming, at which he has been unusually successful. He and his son, William A., own 360 acres of
land, with 100 under cultivation. Mrs. Tomlinson died November 4, 1880. Mr. Tomlinson and seven of the family are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South. In his political views he affiliates with the Democratic party, and takes an active part in politics. Mr. Tomlinson is a
member of the Masonic fraternity, which he joined in Griffin, Georgia, in 1845. He is also a leading member of the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial
Union of Calhoun County. He takes a deep interest in all public enterprises, and is held in high esteem by his neighbors and all who know him.