Biography of John B. Bratcher - Conway Co, AR

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        Date: 21 Jun 1998
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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 46

John B. Bratcher, a planter living on Petit Jean Mountain, was born in Tennessee
August 19, 1838, a son of Charles and Elizabeth (King) Bratcher. His parents
were natives of Tennessee, where they were married: they were the parents of six
children, four sons and two daughters, three children now living, who are named,
John B., the subject of this sketch, Benjamin and Elizabeth. His father
emigrated from Tennessee to Arkansas and died in Ouachita County; mother
returned to Tennessee, where she is still living, and a member of the M. E.
Church, South. Our subject was married in Ray County, Tennessee, in 1867, to
Miss Nancy Reed, a native of Tennessee, born in 1836. They are the parents of
five children, three sons and two daughters, named John W., General, Charles,
Amanda E., and Cora A. Our subject owns 160 acres of good land, with forty acres
under cultivation. He enlisted in the Confederate army in 1861, in Company E,
19th Tennessee Infantry, and served until 1863; was wounded in the battle of
Chickamauga and was then discharged, when he returned home and engaged in
farming. He immigrated to Arkansas in 1881 and settled in Conway County; here he
has become identified with the interests of this county, and politically he
votes with the Democratic party.