Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Barnett C. Conley *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: The Goodspeed Publishing Co Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org *********************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------ SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Barnett C. Conley is a son of Mason S. and Rhoda (Cheatem) Conley, natives [p.1136] of Georgia and Virginia, respectively. When young they both went to Alabama, where they were married, in Jackson County, and lived until 1830. They then settled in what is now Carroll County, where the father was killed about 1837. The mother died in this county, when about sixty years of age. The father was a good blacksmith, by which trade he earned his living. The mother was a Presbyterian, and the mother of three sons and three daughters. Barnett C. is the third child, and was born July 20, 1828. He was reared on a farm, and received no literary education, as he was troubled with weak eyes, which prevented study. In 1850 he married Catherine Shepard, a native of Crawford County, who bore him the following children: William M., Serilda, Julia A., Mason S. Mrs. Conley died in 1857, and two years later he wedded Ann E. Mullen, who was born in Tennessee, December 3, 1838, and reared in Washington County, Ark. She is the mother of eight children: Henry J., James B., John F., Francis C., Mary C., George M., Lydia B. and Edie E. Mr. Conley's first wife was a Methodist, but he and his present wife belong to the Christian Church. Mr. Conley has lived in this county nearly forty years, and although he began life with nothing, he now has eighty acres of land, sixty of which he has cultivated. He is a Republican and Master Mason.