Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Pleasant M. Tarpley

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Pleasant M. Tarpley was born in Carroll County, Tenn., in 1837, his 
parents being Thomas W. and Susan (Harvey) Tarpley, natives of 
Tennessee. In 1860 they left their native State and went to Greene 
County, Ark., where the father died in 1862, and the mother in 1875. 
The father was of Dutch descent, and was born in Giles County, Tenn., 
about 1800. In religion he was a Baptist. Pleasant M. is the sixth 
child of eleven sons and five daughters born to his parents, and is 
the only one living in this county. He only attended school two 
[p.1201] months, and when of age engaged in farming. He had previously 
worked four years on the railroad, and had learned the milling 
business, which he has followed at times ever since in connection with 
farming. He accompanied his parents to Arkansas, and at the opening of 
the war joined Company D, of the Fifth Arkansas Infantry, Confederate 
States Army, and served in the Army of the Tennessee four years 
lacking fifteen days. He fought at Berryville, Ky., Murfreesboro, 
Mission Ridge, Chickamauga, Kenesaw Mountain, Perry, Jonesboro, Ga., 
and Decatur, Ala. He was captured at the last named place in October, 
1864, and imprisoned at Camp Douglas, Ill., until May, 1865. He served 
the greater part of the time under Gen. Hardce, and at the battle of 
Kenesaw Mountain was wounded in the right hip. After the war he 
returned to Greene County, Ark., and in 1866 married Sallie J. 
Childers, a native of McNairy County, Tenn., by whom he has had six 
children, four now living. Mr. Childers was a native of Virginia, and 
there served as justice of the peace for several years. Mr. Tarpley is 
a good farmer, and owns eighty acres of land. He is an enterprising 
man, and favors everything conducive to the public good. He belongs to 
the Pleasant Hill Masonic Lodge, No. 233, and the Producers' Trade 
Union. He is a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for 
Douglas in 1860. His wife belongs to the Methodist Church.