Biography of Henry K. Weatherly - Conway Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 125

Henry K. Weatherly, one of the finest farmers of Union Township, but
now a resident of Howard Township, owes his nativity to Gilford
County, North Carolina, where he was born in the year 1828, being the
fifth of a family of eight sons and three daughters born to Henry and
Delitha (King) Weatherly, who were also natives of North Carolina, and
were born in the years 1792 and 1803, respectively. They continued
their residence in their native State till 1838, when they removed
to McNairy County, West Tennessee, where Mr. Weatherly, spent the
remainder of his days, dying in 1874, Mrs. Weatherly still resides in
McNairy County. She is a daughter of Henry King, who was a native of
Maryland, but spent his last years in North Carolina, a farmer by
occupation. Mr. Weatherly was a successful farmer and was a son of
Isaiah Weatherly, who was also a native of Marylard and died in North
Carolina. The subject of our sketch grew to manhood on a farm, and in
1852 was married to Miss Nancy Willis, a daughter of James and Anna
Willis, natives of North Carolina, but since 1854 Mrs. Willis has made
her home in Conway County, Ark. Mrs. Weatherly was born in North
Carolina and is the mother of twelve children, seven of home are
living, viz.: Leonus Missouri, the wife of Wesley Garrett; Julia, now
Mrs., Sidney Lacefield, Amanda, wife of William Lloyd; Lewis A.,
Rachel R. and John L. In 1854 Mr. Weatherly immigrated to Conway
County and settled in the woods in Union Township, where he resided
till the breaking out of the war, when he returned to West Tennessee,
and in 1861 enlisted in the Confederate army in a regiment made up of
Alabamians, Tennesseeans and Mississippians, and at the battle of
Island No. 10 was captured and imprisoned at Camp Douglas, Chicago,
Ill., till September of the same year (1862), when he was exchanged
and soon after joined the Forty-second Tennessee Regiment and operated
in Mississippi and Louisiana till he was taken sick some months after,
when his military career was brought to a close. He continued to
reside in McNairy County, Tennessee, till 1868, when he returned to
his old farm in Union Township, which he still owns, a tract of 160
acres with about 60 acres under cultivation, all of which improvement
is the result of his own effort. In the spring of 1890 Mr. Weatherly
rented his farm, and he removed to near Plummerville, where he now
resides. Mrs. Weatherly is a member of the M. E. Church, South.