Biography of Stephen Michell, Clay Co, AR

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

Stephen C. Michell was born in Obion County. Tenn., September 21, 1860, and is
the third of nine children, four now living, born to the marriage of Stephen
Michell and Emeline Watts, who were born in Tennessee and Indiana, in 1829 and
1844, respectively. Their marriage took place in 1857, and they removed from
Tennessee to what is now Clay County, Ark., at an early day, and became the
owners of a good farm comprising 160 acres of land, eighty of which they
succeeded in putting under cultivation, and greatly improved their property by
good buildings, fences and orchards. During the Rebellion, Mr. Michell served
for about six months in the Confederate army, and after the surrender returned
home, where he resumed farming. He was a member of the Grangers, the Masons, and
the I. O. O. F., and he and wife were first members of the Methodist Church, but
afterward became connected with the Christian Church. His death occurred on the
1st of November, 1884. The following are his children: Docis (Deckard), who died
at the age of twenty years; Wapallan, who died in Arkansas when fifteen years of
age; James D., who was accidentally killed by a pistol shot when twelve years
old; Margaret E., who died at the age of eight; William, who is now twenty years
of age and resides in Clay County; Mary T. (Moran); Elizabeth, who died when
five months old; Robert Theo., who lives at home, and Stephen C. The latter owns
a farm of 120 acres in Clay County, on which he has resided for the past fifteen
years, and has fifty acres under cultivation, and devotes much of his time to
raising cattle and hogs. He is a member of the Christian Church, a Mason, a
member of the Agricultural Wheel, and in his political views is a Democrat,
having been elected on this ticket to the office of justice of the peace, on the
3d of September, 1888. He has also been constable of the same district a number
of terms. April 10, 1887, he married Miss Alice Dennison, a native of Arkansas.