Biography of James Deniston, Clay Co, AR

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

James Deniston, who is prominently identified with the farming and stock raising
interests of Oak Bluff Township, was born in Ballard County, Ky., July 13, 1839,
and is the son of John Deniston, who was born and reared in Washington County,
Va. He was also married in that State, to Miss Dorotha L. Puckett, a native of
Amelia County, Va. Her father served in the War of 1812. After marriage Mr.
Deniston settled on a farm in Kentucky, and followed tilling the soil up to the
breaking out of the late war, when, at the age of fifty-two, he enlisted in the
Twenty-third Kentucky Infantry, Union Army, and died in Texas. James Deniston
spent his youth in his native county, in Kentucky, assisting his father on the
farm, and when in his nineteenth year, he was married there to Miss Eliza Brown,
who bore him five children. After marriage Mr. Deniston followed agricultural
pursuits in Kentucky until 1868, when he moved to Missouri, and spent one year
in Cape Girardeau County. He then resided two years in Stoddard County, and in
the spring of 1872 moved to Arkansas, bought raw land, and there he lives at the
present time. He is the owner of 280 acres of land, with about 125 acres
cleared, all good bottom land. He served as a member of the school board for ten
consecutive years, and has the confidence and esteem of his fellow men. He was
married, in Cape Girardeau County, to Miss Mary E. Welch, a native of llinois,
but who was reared near Alton, Obion County, Tenn. Nine children were born to
the last marriage: Isabelle, Ada, Bernetta J., Rhoda, Ida M., Stonewall J.,
Scott H., George and Effie W. Mr. and Mrs. Deniston are members of the
Missionary Baptist Church, and he is a deacon in the same. He is a Master Mason,
and a member and treasurer of Danley Lodge No. 300, A. F, & A. M.