Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Henry Varbel

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Henry Varbel, farmer of Lancaster Township, was born in Oldham County, 
Ky., in 1831, and is a son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Walker) Varbel, 
natives of Kentucky, where they lived until about 1835. They then 
removed to Buchanan County, Mo., and from there to Platt County, where 
the father died about 1844, and the mother about 1870. They were 
members of the Methodist Church, and were engaged in agricultural 
pursuits all their lives. Henry is the second child of a family of 
seven, and when young received a common-school education. In 1851 he 
married Catherine Richardson, of Platt County, Mo., who died in 1862, 
leaving two children. In 1865 he married Mary E. Goodman, by whom he 
has had twelve children, ten of whom are living. After his first 
marriage Mr. Varbel went to Bates County, Mo., and the following year 
went to Kansas, where he remained nine years. He then returned to 
Platt County, Mo., and after 1865 spent three years in Iowa. He then 
returned to Missouri, and in 1872 came to Crawford County, Ark., 
settling upon his present place, which then contained but five or six 
acres of cleared land, but to which he has added until he now has 
eighty acres. In 1881 he built a gin and corn mill, which he operated 
five years in connection with his farming. He is a member of the Five 
Springs Masonic Lodge, and is one of the enterprising men of his 
township. In politics he is a Democrat. His wife is a member of the 
Christian Church.