Biography of Thomas J. Hadley, 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.

Thomas J. Hadley, merchant and farmer, of Franklin County, is a son of
John and Martha (Merideth) Hadley, and was born in Louisiana May 8,
1858. John Hadley was born in 1823 in the State of Alabama, where he
was reared and educated. He went to Arkansas in 1844, and four years
later removed to Louisiana, where he engaged in farming until 1859, he
then located in Sevier County, Ark., where he lived until 1869, when
he removed to his present home near Ozark, Franklin County. He is one
of the prominent men of his community, and during the war was
appointed by the Confederate Government to look after the people at
home in Sevier County. Mrs. Martha Hadley, who was a native of
Alabama, died in 1870, the mother of ten children, viz.: Nancy J.,
Mary F., Harriet (deceased), Martha (deceased), Riley J., Thomas J.,
Lawrence [p.1242] J., James (deceased), Emma and Sarah C. In 1872 John
Hadley married Agnes Blaylock, nee Miller, of Franklin County, who was
the mother of five children by her first husband. To this union were
born three children, viz.: Cener, Minnie and Lewis B. Thomas J. Hadley
was reared and educated in Franklin County. In September, 1878, he
married Hattie B. Fletcher, a native of Indiana, and a daughter of
Calvin G. Fletcher, who located in Franklin County in 1877. He was a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The year following his
marriage Thomas J. Hadley located on the farm where he now resides. Of
his seventy-five acres of land he has sixty-five under cultivation,
the result of his own industry. In October, 1887, he engaged in
merchandising with his brother at Vesta, where they carry a fine stock
of general merchandise, and are liberally patronized. Mr. Hadley was
appointed postmaster of Vesta in March, 1888, of which office he is
the present incumbent. Mr. and Mrs. Hadley are the parents of six
children, viz.: Oscar C., Otto A., Roscoe A., Oza E., Dallie May and
John C. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
where Mr. Hadley is class-leader, and takes an active interest in all
church work; he is superintendent of the Sunday-school, and is
president of the Hurricane Township Sunday-school Association.