Biography of L. J. Salmons - Craighead Co, AR

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

page 354

L. J. Salmons, a substantial farmer of Craighead County, was
born in Cherokee County, Ala., April 14, 1839. His father, Jeremiah M.
Salmons, who was a native of Franklin County, Ga., and was educated in
that State, was a farmer by occupation, and had married Lucinda Waters,
born and reared in Georgia. Jeremiah M. Salmons had five sons and five
daughters, four of whom live in this county. In politics he was a Whig.
L. J. Salmons was educated in Alabama at the Lawrence school, and while
yet a young man came to Arkansas. In 1862 he entered the [p.354]
Confederate service, and was in several engagements, receiving a number
of wounds. He was discharged in May of 1865, when he returned home to his
farm and devoted himself to its improvement. December 19, 1867, he was
united in marriage with Nancy Christian, a native of Craighead County,
Ark., born December 26, 1846, and both he and his wife are zealous
members of the Baptist Church, and contribute liberally to its support.
Mr. Salmons has about 1,880 acres of good land, about 100 of which is
very rich soil and the best farming land. He has been justice of the
peace in Poinsett County, and has been for five years a member of the
school board of directors. He is a prominent member of the Agricultural
Wheel, of which he was president for one year. Having made a thorough
study of mineralogy and the locating of all kinds of minerals, and having
made research throughout the State and discovered gold and other metals
in more or less paying quantities, he may be considered expert in all
such matters.