Biography of J. M. Penix - Craighead Co, AR

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

page 351

J. M. Penix, whose well-improved farm is situated three miles
from Jonesboro, is one of the progressive, wide-awake citizens of the
county. He was born in Cherokee County, Ala., November 12, 1836, and is
the son of John and Sallie (Roach) Penix, the former a native of Alabama,
the latter of Shelby County, Tenn. After the death of his wife and in the
first year of the Civil War, Mr. Penix came to Arkansas and located in
what is now Powell Township, Craighead County, and there [p.351] resided
for three years. In 1865 he moved to Louisiana, where he died in 1867. Of
the fourteen children born to them, only four are now living– our
immediate subject being the only one in Craighead County. He was reared
on a farm, and in 1857 came to Arkansas, and in 1860 married Elizabeth
Albright, a native of Tennessee, whose parents were Simpson and Hulda
(Snodderly) Albright–the former is deceased, the latter resides with Mr.
Penix. In the war of the Rebellion, he gave his support to the
Confederate cause, serving in the Thirteenth Arkansas Infantry for about
eight months, when he was discharged on account of sickness. He re-
enlisted in the Trans-Mississippi department at Little Rock and served
another twelve months. At the close of the war he returned to Craighead
County and bought eighty acres of his present farm of 100 acres, forty of
which are splendidly improved. Mr. and Mrs. Penix are the parents of nine
children: Wiley E., William T. S. and an infant (deceased), and Eli
Thomas (married to Lucinda Raines), Mary Magdalene. James Cornelius,
Midas Ludells, Samuel Elbert and Scott Hinman. Mr. Penix is a Democrat,
has been school director for five years, and has given one-half acre of
his farm for a school-house site. He and his wife and oldest son and
daughter are active members of the Baptist Church.