Biography of George M. Rapier - Conway Co, AR

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Submitted by: Cathy Barnes <bbarnes@cswnet.com>
        Date: 21 Jun 1998
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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 99

George M. Rapier of the firm of Vandervort & Rapier, furniture dealers
at Morrilton, was born in Hamilton County, Tennessee, February 11,
1854. He was a son of John M., and Mary M. (Gideons) Rapier. Parents
were natives of Tennessee: father born in 1801, and mother in 1808.
They were married in Monroe County, Tennessee, and the result of that
union was twelve children, eight sons and four daughters; four
children are now living. Father was reared on a farm, and took as
active part in politics in his early life. He was Tax Collector in
Bradley County, Tennessee, for six years, and served as Justice for a
long time. Politically he was a Democrat. Mother died in 1876, a
member of the Baptist Church. Father emigrated from Tennessee to
Arkansas in 1880, and settled in Conway County, where he died in 1885,
a member of the Baptist Church. Our subject came to Arkansas with his
father in 1880, and engaged in the furniture business in Morrilton. He
has since been identified with the business interest of that town, and
in active business there since. On October 30, 1889, he was united in
marriage to Miss Eliza Pateete, a member of an old family in this
county, and born here herself in 1868. They are members of the
Missionary Baptist Church.