Biography of O. L. Slaughter - 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 115

O. L. Slaughter, a worthy citizen of Washington Township, was born in
Lafayette County, Tenn., December 28, 1841; his father, Edward, and
mother were natives of North Carolina, and were the parents of a large
family of children, seven of whom grew to majority, and of whom our
subject is the youngest. Edward, Sr., was both a farmer and mechanic
by occupation. He emigrated from North Carolina to Tennessee in 1838,
and located in Hardeman County, and from there to Fayette County,
where he remained five years, and died while on a trip to Texas. Mrs.
Slaughter lived till 1867, when she died in this State. These worthy
people were both members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Our
subject was educated in Tennessee, and at the age of 16 years began
for himself by working at farm labor. In 1855, he, with his mother,
came to Arkansas, where he has since resided. He married Mary C.
Fowler, a native of Tennessee, in 1856. To the union was born three
children-Martha A. (married), Lizzie L. (deceased), Marian C.
(deceased). Mrs. Slaughter died in 1864, and in 1873 our subject
married again to Mary A. Schrienscher, a native of Mississippi. She
died in 1876, and in 1888 Mr. Slaughter married Mrs. Phedonia A.
Peteete, **** Munn, a native of Tennessee. Our subject follows the
occupation of a planter, and owns a fine farm of eighty acres, of
which sixty are under a high state of cultivation. Mrs. Slaughter is a
member of the Baptist Church, and our subject is active in all things
directed toward the improvement of the county.