Biography of Cyrus H. McCullough - 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 89

Cyrus H. McCullough, a progressive and enterprising agriculturist of
Howard Township, is a native of Blount County, East Tennessee, and was
born in 1845. His parents, John and Hanhah (Boran) McCullough were
natives of Knox County, Tennessee, and Virginia, respectively. Mr.
McCullough spent his entire life in East Tennessee as a successful
farmer, and was called to his eternal home on Christmas day of 1888,
after an honest and upright life. Mrs. McCullough died in 1885, after
many years a devout member of the Methodist Church. Cyrus H. is the
youngest of a family of five sons and five daughters. He was reared an
industrious farmer boy, with but very little schooling, not to exceed
three months in all. In 1862, when but 17 years of age he left his
home to assist in the defense of the "stars and stripes," enlisting in
Company D, of the Ninth Tennessee Cavalry, and did active service in
Virginia and East Tennessee till the siege of Knoxville, where he
was captured by the Confederate troops and served a term in Libby
Prison at Richmond, thence at Danville, Va., and after a prison life
of nine months was paroled, and returned to Tennessee in search of his
command, but was taken sick and placed in the hospital at Chattanooga,
and after his recovery rejoined his command at Knoxville, and was on
several raids through East Tennessee and Virginia, where he operated
till the close of the war, when he returned to farm life. He
remained in Tennessee till 1872, when he and a brother (Joshua) sought
for greener fields, by emigrating west. They at once located in Conway
County, where Cyrus H. was married in 1873, to Mrs. Mary E. Gray, a
daughter of John Russell, who removed from East Tennessee to Conway
County before the war. Mrs. McCullough was born in East Tennessee, and
is the mother of one son and two daughters. Since his residence in
Conway County, Mr. McCullough has made his home in Howard Township,
where he owns 240 acres of land in two tracts, about ninety acres of
which is under cultivation. His home farm lies two miles southwest of
Plummerville in a desirable locality. Mr. McCullough is a prominent
member of the Howard Lodge, No. 253, A. F. and A. M. at Plummerville;
in which order he has served as Senior Deacon and Junior Warden. Mrs.
McCullough is a consistent member of the Methodist Church.