Biography of Jesse C. Broadaway - Craighead Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1889.

page 320

 Jesse C. Broadaway was born in Lincoln County, Tenn., October 27,
1829, and is the son of Yancy and Elizabeth (Hodges) Broadaway, the
former born in North Carolina in 1801, the latter a native of Lincoln
County, Tennesse. When the father was yet a boy, his parents moved to
Tennessee, where he was reared and educated in his wife's native
county. Mr. and Mrs. Broadaway were the parents of eleven children,
seven sons and four daughters, six of whomare still living, all in this
county. Mr. Broadaway all his life engaged in farming and stock
raising, and in Tennessee was very successful in that occupation, and
was also elected to some local offices. He came to Arkansas in the fall
of 1841, and here engaged in farming and reared his family. He was
elected justice of the peace, and held that office for eighteen years;
also served one term as county and probate judge. He and wife were
devoted Christians, and zealous members of the Missionary Baptist
Church. After a long life of usefulness, he died April 14, 1885, aged
eighty-four years. His wife still survives him, and makes her home with
one of her sons. The family is of English descent. Jesse C. Broadaway,
the immediate subject of this sketch, is one of the thrifty and
successful farmers of the county. He owns about 250 acres of good land,
and of this has about seventy-five acres in a flourishing state of
cultivation. November 15, 1855, he was married to Nancy Jane Harris, a
native of Craighead County, Ark., born November 18, 1837, and died
March 29, 1885. Their union was blessed by eleven children, five of
whom are yet living: William R., Y. E. W., Robert J., Leila L. and Lula
L.