Biography of Robert Hancock, Clay Co, AR

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

Robert L. Hancock, agent for the "Cotton Belt" Railroad and the Southern Express
Company, is a native of Prentiss County, Miss., where he was born on the 15th of
March, 1852, being the son of Benjamin Hancock, who was born in Tennessee and
reared in Virginia. When a young man he went to Tennessee, where he met and
married Matilda Rowsy of that State, and afterward moved to Mississippi,
residing on a plantation in Prentiss County until his death in 1854, followed by
his wife in 1867. After coming to years of maturity, Robert L. Hancock attended
school in Boonville, Miss., receiving a good education, and then clerked for
four years. In 1874 he went to Tennessee, and was married there on the 4th of
April, 1884, to Miss Delilah Matheny, who was born, reared and educated in
Hardin County of that State, being a daughter of James and Eliza Matheny. After
their marriage they located in Williamsville, Wayne County, Mo., and for two
years he was engaged in teaching school, and the next two years occupied in
farming and teaching in Hardin County, Tenn. In 1879 he came to Clay County,
Ark., locating on a farm near Greenway, and devoted himself to tilling the soil
and pedagogning up to 1884, when he moved to Greenway and was appointed
telegraph operator, depot and express agent, which position he is now filling.
He was also engaged in mercantile business for one year, and has served as a
member of the town board. He is an active worker for the cause of temperance,
and organized the Hancock Temperance Club at Greenway, of which he is president.
Mr. Hancock commenced life in Clay County with little or no capital, but is now
one of the substantial men of the community, and is the owner of considerable
town property and a good farm near Greenway.