Biography of Larry Boshers, Clay Co, AR

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The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of N. E. Ark.
Biographical Information.

Larry Boshers. This successful young planter and stockman, of Clay County, of
which he has been a resident for seventeen years, is well and favorably known to
the many citizens of Kilgore Township. He was born in the State of Tennessee, in
1862, being the seventh of fourteen children of Henry and Tabitha (Stewart)
Boshers, who were also originally from that State, the former being a planter by
occupation, and there he died. After his death his widow came to Clay County,
Ark., and here died on her farm, in 1882. Larry Boshers was early taught the
rudiments of farm life, becoming still better acquainted with that calling as he
grew to manhood, and is now considered one of the enterprising, thorough and
reliable young agriculturists of the county. In 1880 be made his first purchase
of land, which amounted to forty acres, in a raw state, and has since added from
time to time to this tract, until he now has a valuable farm consisting of 480
acres, with 175 under cultivation, the rest being well adapted to raising stock,
to which Mr. Boshers gives considerable attention. He devotes seventy-five acres
to the culture of cotton each year. He votes with the Democratic party, is a
member of the Agricultural Wheel. and, personally, is held in high esteem by all
who know him. Miss Jennie Montgomery, a native of Clay County, became his wife
in 1880, and died in 1884, having borne two children. both deceased. Her parents
were Daniel and Polly Montgomery.