Biography of James W. Carlock - 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 57

James W. Carlock, one of the representative citizens of Cedar Falls Township, on
the Petit Jean Mountain, is a native of Walker County, Georgia, and was born
August 17, 1855. He is a son of William H. and Mary A. Carlock, a sketch of
whose life appears in this book, and to which the reader is referred for a full
account of that respected citizen. Our subject was married in Yell County,
Arkansas, October 8, 1876, to Miss Cerena C. Hamilton, a daughter of Benjamin
and Nancy (Crouch) Hamilton, Mrs. Carlock was born in Georgia October 9, 1852;
she died December 5, 1878, and left one son, William B. Mr. Carlock was married
the second time March 9, 1879, to Miss Ann J. Bernard, a daughter of Marcus and
Sarah L. (Paplin) Bernard; father was a native of France, and mother of
Mississippi; they were married in Pope County, Arkansas, about 1842, and were
the parents of four children, named Ann J., wife of subject, born in Yell
County, October 7, 1852; Samuel; Matilda, wife of James Jones, and William M.
Father died October 20, 1855; mother died in 1888, and both were members of the
M. E. Church. Mr. Carlock owns one of the best places on the mountain, 115 acres
well improved; he and Mr. Carlock are members of the M. E. Church, South; they
are parents of five children, named in order of birth; Joseph, W., Mary L.,
Alfred R., Matilda A. and Jessie L.