Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Gillead J. B. Gideon

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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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Gillead J. B. Gideon, farmer and deputy sheriff of Whitley Township, 
was born in what is now Bartow County, Ga., in 1836, and is a son of 
Dr. Berry W. and Lillie (Park) Gideon, natives of Hall and Jackson 
Counties, Ga., respectively. They were married in Jackson County and 
died in their native State, where they had passed their lives. The 
father's death occurred in February, 1884, when he was eighty-two, and 
the mother died the following August aged seventy-two. He was a 
successful physician, and held a license which was given by the 
Legislature. During the Indian troubles in Georgia he commanded a 
company of volunteers. His father was a native of England. Our subject 
is the fourth child in a family composed of two sons and nine 
daughters. During his youth he received a common-school education 
while under the paternal roof. During the Civil War he served almost 
the entire time in Company K, First Georgia Infantry, State troops, 
known as "Joe Brown's Pets," guarding the bridges and railroads until 
the army entered Georgia, when he joined the regular service. He was 
discharged at Atlanta shortly before the close of the war, whereupon 
he returned home. In 1858 he married Margaret, daughter of William 
Mobley, who until 1870 lived in Georgia, and is now a resident of 
Johnson County, Ark. Of Mr. Gideon's ten children one son is in 
Tennessee and the remainder in Arkansas. Since 1870, with the 
exception of one year, Mr. Gideon has been a resident of Crawford 
County. In the meantime he spent a short time in both Franklin County 
and New Mexico, but finally located permanently upon his present farm 
in 1877. From a small piece of ground composed of forty acres, upon 
which he erected a log cabin sixteen feet square, he has been 
increasing his landed possessions until he now has 100 acres of 
cleared land, and is the owner of 240 acres of land in all in 
different tracts. He has given his children a good education, and for 
two years has been sheriff of the county. He has always been a 
Democrat, and his first presidential vote was cast for Breckenridge in 
1860. 

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