Biography of Willoughby S. Garner, Franklin Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed
Publishing Co., 1889.

Willoughby S. Garner, merchant, was born in Greene County, Mo.,
September 29, 1829, and is a son of Samuel and Rachel (Pugh) Garner,
natives of South Carolina and Virginia, respectively. After their
marriage, in Virginia, the parents moved to Tennessee, thence they
went to Missouri, and in 1835 located in what is now Jackson County,
Ark., where they farmed the remainder of their lives. The father was a
soldier in one of the Indian wars and the War of 1812; he died in
1842. The mother died about 1840. Our subject was reared in Jackson
County, and was there married, in 1855, to Mary D. Pepper, a native of
Tennessee, and a daughter of William Pepper. Shortly after his
marriage he went to Van Buren County, where he engaged in farming
twelve years. In 1862 he enlisted in the Tenth Arkansas Infantry,
serving until the latter part of 1863, when he was discharged for
disability, and returned to Van [p.1239] Buren, continuing to farm
there until 1867. While in service he participated in the fights at
Prairie De Hand, Poison Springs, Mark's Mills and Helena, besides
several skirmishes. November 27, 1867, Mr. Garner located six miles
from Ozark, in Franklin County, and farmed two years, and then sold
goods upon his farm for two years. He then moved his stock to town,
where he has continued in business with good success. He purchased and
moved into his present business house in 1887, which is large and
commodious, and is now selling about $30,000 of general merchandise
per annum. He is an enterprising and honorable citizen, and is a Royal
Arch Mason. To himself and wife five children have been born: William
R., Arta, Edward, Pugh, and Enfield (wife of William S. Webb). Mr. and
Mrs. Garner are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of
which Mr. G. is a deacon.