Carroll Co., AR - Biographies - Edward Mitchell

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Edward Mitchell, an enterprising merchant and farmer of Carrollton, 
Ark., is a native of the county, born on April 21, 1842. He is a son 
of Joel D. Mitchell, a native of Virginia, and Elvira Dibble, a native 
of Tennessee. Joel D. Mitchell was taken when a child to Tennessee, 
and was there reared and married. He removed from the latter State to 
Missouri, and came to Arkansas about 1834, settling in Carroll County, 
where he remained until his death in February, 1872. He served as 
justice of the peace for one or more terms. His wife died in 1844. 
Edward Mitchell grew to mature years on his father's farm, and in 
July, 1861, enlisted in the Confederate army, joining Col. Dave 
Walker's regiment of infantry. After serving in this a short time he 
was discharged, and in the spring of 1862 re-enlisted in the Twenty-
seventh Arkansas Infantry, and served until the close of the war. 
Among other engagements he participated in the battle of Mansfield, 
La., and was at Little Rock and Fort Smith when those cities were 
evacuated. At the battle of Mansfield he received a flesh wound, from 
which he was disabled for two months. After his parole at Shreveport, 
La., he returned home and remained until spring, when he went to 
Missouri, and remained six months, returning to Carroll County in the 
fall of 1867. Thence he went to Kansas and remained one year, when he 
went to Colorado and remained, engaged in farming and stock dealing, 
until the fall of 1879, when he sold out, and returned to Arkansas. 
Soon after he engaged in the mercantile business at Carrollton. and 
has continued very successfully. He carries a large stock of general 
merchandise, has an established trade and a good reputation for good 
goods and fair dealing. In 1878 he was married, in Carrollton, to 
Altie Johnson, a native of Georgia. She died in December of the next 
year, leaving one daughter. Altie Stella. In Boone County, Ark., in 
August, 1882, Mr. Mitchell was united in marriage with Louisa 
Mitchell, a daughter of R. J. Mitchell, of Boone County. To them have 
been born two children: Joel and William Robert. Mrs. Mitchell is a 
consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mr. 
Mitchell is a Knight Templar in the Masonic order. Besides his 
mercantile interests he owns two good farms, one near Carrollton, and 
the other near Harrison. Ark.