Biography of Alfred Pagan - Craighead Co, AR

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

page 350

Alfred Pagan, one of the leading farmers of Cane Island, was born in
Meade County, Ky., February 8, 1851, and is the son of David and Hannah
(Halls) Pagan, the former a native of Virginia, the latter of Kentucky.
The father was reared and educated in Virginia and when a young man moved
to Kentucky and was there married. He remained for several years in Meads
County, and then removed to Daviess, where he engaged in farming until
his death in 1864. His wife survives him and now resides on Cane Island.
All of the family of six sons and two daughters reached maturity, but one
son, who was a soldier in the Confederate service, and who died since the
war. One brother lives in Kentucky, four brothers and one sister on Cane
Island, and one sister in Missouri. Alfred Pagan was reared in. Kentucky
and remained with his mother until his marriage, February 17, 1872, with
Ellen Martin, a native of Daviess County, Ky., and a daughter of James
and Jane Martin, who still reside in Daviess County. Mr. and Mrs. Pagan
are the parents of six children: James, Minnie, Mary, Eva, Alfred and
Rosa. Two children died in infancy. Mr. Pagan was always a farmer in
Daviess County until 1881, when he came to Arkansas. He remained one year
at Elmot Landing, Mississippi County, then came to Craighead County,
selecting the place where he now resides. It was then but little
improved; now he has four farms, aggregating 350 acres, with about 100
acres cleared and improved. It is all rich and valuable land and he has
on the home place two residences and one on each of the other farms. Mr.
and Mrs. Pagan are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, in which Mr.
Pagan is also a deacon.