Biography of J. T. Jeanes, 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.

J. T. Jeanes, a prominent agriculturist of the county, is a native of
West Tennessee, born October 28, 1846, and the son of Josiah and
Elizabeth (Prother) Jeanes, both natives of South Carolina, and of
Irish descent. The mother died in 1882, but the father is still
living, and although eighty-seven years of age is yet in full
possession of his faculties and in vigorous health. He has been a
farmer all his life. Their family consisted of nine children, seven of
whom lived to be grown, and three of whom are now living: J. N., of
Tennessee; Laura N., wife of John T. Carter, of Tennessee, and the
subject of this sketch. The father started in life with very limited
means, but by hard labor and economy, coupled with good judgment,
amassed a fortune, and was supposed to be worth as much as $75,000
previous to the war, but lost a considerable portion of it during that
period by the Union soldiers. His son, J. T. Jeanes, came to Arkansas
in 1882, but was married in his native State, in 1875, to Miss Martha
E. Warren, a native of Tennessee, and the daughter of James and Louisa
Warren, also natives of Tennessee. To Mr. and Mrs. Jeanes were born
three children: Nora, Eula and Warren. Mr. Jeanes is a member of the
Masonic fraternity, Pleasant Hill Lodge No. 233, is a Democrat in his
political views, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr. Jeanes is the owner of fifty-six acres of good farming land, 115
acres of good bottom land, a five-acre lot where he now resides, and
sixty acres in Faulkner County, Ark.