Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Silas M. Carney

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Silas M. Carney, farmer, was born June 30, 1850, in Rusk County, Texas, and is a 
son of William and Evaline (Sartain) Carney. He remained in Texas until five or 
six years of age, and then went to Pike County, Ill., by wagon, settling about 
thirty miles distant from Quincy. A year later he removed to Crawford County, 
Ark., within a mile of the place he now owns. He passed his younger days upon 
the farm, receiving a common-school education, and when nineteen married Martha 
Seagrave, daughter of Michael and Eliza (Crouch) Seagrave, natives of North 
Carolina and Tennessee, respectively. [p.1132] The mother was married in her 
native State, and afterward came to Arkansas, where Mrs. Carney was born, and 
where Mrs. Crouch now lives, aged seventy-three. Mrs. Carney was a schoolmate of 
her husband, and is now the mother of seven children: William M., Sarah E., 
Charles Mc, Laura R., James, Mary B. and Chester A. After their marriage Mr. and 
Mrs. Carney lived with Mr. Seagrave a year, and then homesteaded eighty acres of 
land, upon which they lived five years. They then sold the land and moved to a 
farm near by, which they made their home three years, and then settled upon 
their present place. Two years later they went to Washington County for a year, 
but then returned to Olliver Springs. Mr. Carney has always engaged in farming, 
and now owns a nice farm of 240 acres, 150 being well improved and cultivated. 
He is a well-to-do man, and politically is a Republican.