Biography of A. Thomas Gatlin - Craighead Co, AR

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

page 333

A. Thomas Gatlin, a successful self-made farmer of Craighead County,
was born in Tennessee December 16, 1849, and is the son of Hardy and
Mary (Gullett) Gatlin, the former a native of Virginia, the latter of
Mississippi. The father moved to Tennessee when a young man and there
married and remained for several years; then, about 1856, came to
Arkansas, locating near Jonesboro, where he remained until his death,
in 1860. After his father's death Mr. Gatlin went to Kentucky with his
mother, who is still living, and remained there until after the
Rebellion. In 1873 he returned to Craighead County, this time selecting
a location on Cane Island, where, by the fruits of his own labor, he
has become the foremost farmer. The land was covered with heavy timber,
but now he has 120 acres cleared and under cultivation and sixty acres
yet timbered. In connection with his farm he is owner and proprietor of
a cotton-gin, which he built in 1885, and with which in 1887 he ginned
over 200 bales of cotton. In 1868 was consummated his marriage with
Amanda Gibson (now deceased), who bore him three children: Riley. Hardy
and Lovenia. Mr. Gatlin married his present wife on this Island in July
of 1878. She was a daughter of William Bennett (her maiden name Sallie
Bennett), and a native of Alabama. Mr. Gatlin is noted as one of the
most energetic and industrious farmers of the county. He is a member of
the Masonic order and is master of the lodge at Lake City.