Biography of George W. Stripling - 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 109

George W. Stripling, a prominent agriculturist and stock raiser of
Lick Mountain Township, is a native of Bradley County, Arkansas, born
in 1857, and is a son of William Wiley and Mariah (Mince) Stripling.
The father was born in Alabama and the latter in North Carolina in
1830. Their marriage occurred in Alabama about 1849, and they at once
removed to Bradley County, Arkansas, where Mr. Strippling spent the
remainder of his life, dying in 1863. His father, Wiley Stripling,
removed from Alabama to Bradley County about 1849, and died there
about the close of the war. He was a farmer and a Methodist.
Grandfather John Mince was a farmer and stock raiser in Alabama, where
he died. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Stripling married W. K.
Davis of Bradley County, and in 1869 removed to Van Buren County, and
about five years after came to Conway County and lived near Centre
Ridge till his death in October, 1883. Mrs. Davis is now living with a
daughter, Mrs. Manley Willis, of Van Buren County. Mrs. Davis is a
member of the Christian Church, and is the mother of eleven children,
ten by her first husband of whom George W. is the sixth, and of whom
four are living, viz.: Margaret E., widow of William D. Rhodes
(deceased); John J.; Harriet, wife of Jesse Mahan; George W.; Susan C.
(by last husband). Mr. Stripling never attended school more than two
months. Was reared on a farm, and since 1874 has resided in Conway
County, where he was married in 1877 to Miss Mary Mahan, a daughter of
James and Emily Mahan. Mr. Mahan was born in Kentucky, but about
thirty years ago removed from Tennessee to Conway County, where he
still resides. He is about 66 years old, and a member of the
Missionary Baptist Church. Mrs. Mahan died during the war. Mrs.
Stripling was born in Tennessee and is the mother of eight children,
four living. Soon after his marriage Mr. Stripling settled in the
woods near where he now resides, where he has improved a good farm,
being the owner of 240 acres of land near Centre Ridge, all of which
he has obtained by industry and economy. He is active in all public
enterprises, is a Republican in, politics, and he and wife are devout
members of the Christian Church.