Biography of H. C. Roy - Craighead Co, AR

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

page 353

H. C. Roy, a prominent and substantial planter of Craighead County, Ark.,
was born in the county, and is one of its leading citizens. His father,
Jesse L. Roy, also a successful farmer, was born in Tennessee, in 1828.
He married Emily C. Courtney, a native of Mississippi. In the Mexican War
he was a valiant soldier, and in the late war was a captain in the
Confederate service. He participated in several engagements, Helena being
the most important. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge and has occupied
many of its official chairs, and is also connected with the Agricultural
Wheel. Both he and his wife are highly respected citizens, and are
zealous members of the Methodist Church. Mr. Roy is a man of sterling
worth in the community, strong in his political views and his convictions
of right; and as the fruits of his industry has a farm of 100 acres,
about half of which is in a splendid state of cultivation.