Biography of William H. 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

Rev. William H. Carlock, an old and highly respected citizen, living on Petit
Jean Mountain, in Cedar Falls Township, was born in Tennessee July 14, 1827; he
is a son of James and Martha (Burgess) Carlock; his parents were both natives of
Tennessee, and were born in 1800 and 1807, respectively; these families were
among the earliest pioneers to that section; his father was a planter and quite
a popular man in his time; he held the office of County Treasurer of Marion
County from 1838 to 1852 or 1853; he was married in Tennessee in 1826, and there
were born to that union six children who lived to maturity, of whom our subject
was the oldest; they were both members of the M. E. Church, and they died
(mother) in 1840, and (father) in 1865. Mr. Carlock, the subject, was reared on
the farm, and was married November 1, 1844, to Miss Mary A. Hamilton, and there
were born to that union ten children, five sons and five daughters, five of whom
are now living, and are named John W., James W., Martha J. (the wife of E.
Pitts), Margaret E. (wife of E. Hale), Rhoda A. (wife of W. W. West). Mr.
Carlock's wife died in 1863; she was a long time member of the M. E. Church. Our
subject was married the second time in 1865 to Miss Mary A. Hamilton; she was a
daughter of A. C. and Nancy (Callahan) Hamilton, and is a native of Georgia;
born January 22, 1842. To this union were born seven children, only one of whom,
Nancy F., wife of John Morris, is now living. They were married December 21,
1888. Our subject enlisted in the late was in 1861, in Company I, Thirty-Sixth
Tennessee Regiment Infantry; was discharged in 1862 on account of old age. He
served as Justice of the Peace for some time in the district of the county in
which he resided. In 1869 he emigrated from Tennessee to Arkansas, and settled
in Yell County, where he lived until 1879 when he moved to Conway County, where
he now resides. Mr. Carlock owns a fine farm of 240 acres, with 60 acres under
cultivation. His daughter, Mrs. Morris, and her husband, reside with and manage
his farming operations. Mrs. Carlock is a member of the M. E. Church, and Mr.
Carlock is a Presbyterian; he has been a minister for twenty-five years.