Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Dr. T. M. Warden

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Dr. T. M. Warden was born in Madison County, Ky., January 19, 1809, 
and is a son of James and Jemima (Thorp) Warden. The father was born 
in Culpeper County, Va., about 1784, and in 1794 immigrated to 
Kentucky, traveling from Pittsburgh in a flat-boat and landing where 
Maysville now stands. He was reared upon a farm, received a common-
school education, and died there in October, 1839. The mother was born 
in Madison County, Ky., in 1793, where she was married to Mr. Warden 
at the age of fifteen. She died in Missouri, where she went after her 
husband's death, her death occurring in 1873. She was the mother of 
eight children, only two of whom are living: Tillett M. and Thomas. 
Those deceased are Tarlton, Tilson, Tilman, Roxana, Mourning and 
Nancy. Nathan Warden, the grandfather, was born in England, and with 
two other brothers served in the Revolution, shortly after going to 
Culpeper County, Va., and subsequently to Kentucky, where he died. The 
mother was of Scotch parentage, and died in Kentucky. Thomas Thorp, 
the maternal grandfather, was born in Virginia, and there married 
Elinor Jackson, a relative of Gov. Jackson, of Missouri. They moved to 
Kentucky in an early day, and there passed their lives. Our subject 
was reared upon his father's [p.1210] farm in Madison County, 
receiving a good education, and after becoming of age spent three 
years in travel. He then began to study medicine under Samuel Brown, 
of Brandenburgh, Ky., and later attended the Louisville Medical 
Institute for two years, graduating in 1841. After spending some time 
in Leaven-worth, Ind., he returned to Madison County, and next went to 
Milliken's Bend, La. After remaining in Vicksburg one year he came to 
Crawford County in 1846, where he has practiced his profession since, 
and is actively and successfully engaged, although eighty years of 
age. February 24, 1840, he married Mrs. Eliza Bartlett, a native of 
Bristol, England, and daughter of William Amas, a native of the same 
place. Mrs. Warden has borne seven children, six now living: Marian 
W., Mortimer, Isabella, Lillie, Clarence N. and Fannie W. Another 
child, Mortimer, is the one deceased. Mrs. Warden died March 8, 1885, 
aged seventy. Dr. Warden owns 130 acres of land, twenty-five of which 
he cultivates, and upon which he lives with his daughter Lillie. In 
politics he is a Democrat.