Carroll Co., AR - Biographies - Joel G. Breeding

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Joel G. Breeding, a hardware merchant of Eureka Springs, was born in 
Overton County, Tenn., on November 11, 1841, and is a son of Stephen 
H. and Diana Breeding. Stephen H. Breeding was also a native of 
Tennessee, born in 1818. He was engaged in farming in his native State 
until 1859, when he removed to a farm near Berryville, Carroll Co., 
Ark., where he resided until his death in 1879. His widow is still 
living, and resides with the subject of this sketch. She is now 
seventy-five years of age. Joel G. Breeding was reared at the home of 
his parents, and came with them to Arkansas. When eighteen years of 
age he engaged in farming on his own account, and continued until he 
removed to Eureka Springs in December, 1879. He then established a 
general store, but afterward ran it into a grocery store, and 
continued in that line of business until December, 1887, when he 
purchased his present hard ware store of Mr. M. Childs. Mr. Breeding 
is a very successful business man, and is one of the prominent and 
reliable citizens of the county. On September 7, 1865, he wedded 
Sophia K. Ramsey, who was born and reared in Carroll County, Ark., and 
is a daughter of Thompson Ramsey. Their union has been blessed by the 
birth of six children: Margaret J. (married to J. E. Jenks, of 
Faulkner County, Ark.), Naomi A., Laura L., Winnie A., Albert R. and 
Ettie P. Breeding. Both Mr. Breeding and wife are earnest Christians, 
and members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He is a Mason, 
and a member of the Knights of Labor. Politically he is a Democrat, 
and at present he is a member of the town council, and has been for 
four years.