Biography of William C. Milton, 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.

William C. Milton, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Lauderdale
County, Ala., December 14, 1826, and is a son of Elisha and Nancy
(Morphis) Milton, natives of North Carolina. In 1836 the family moved
to Arkansas and located in Franklin County, where the father entered
land and improved the farm upon which our subject now lives. Here a
family of six sons and one daughter was reared. Of these, four sons
and the daughter are now living. One of the sons is now a resident of
Texas. All six brothers joined the Confederate army, five enlisting
from Franklin County, and two met their deaths while in service.
William C. grew to manhood upon the home farm, and lived with his
father until the death of the latter. In 1853 he married Eliza,
daughter of D. L. Bourland, now deceased, but formerly of Tennessee.
Mrs. Milton was born in Tennessee, and is the mother of six children:
Wallace (in business at Charleston, Ark., married Elizabeth Richardson
in 1881, the daughter of E. Richardson, [p.1262] deceased), Carroll
(in Fort Worth, Tex.), Eddie (married, in 1881, Fanny, daughter of L.
R. Jeffers, deceased, now resides in Mulberry), Walker, Dennie
(married R. S. Jeffers in 1885) and Minnie. In 1862 Mr. Milton
enlisted in the Confederate army, and served in Col. Thompson's
regiment until the close of the war. He fought at Fayetteville and
Fort Smith, and several skirmishes. He was disbanded in Texas, whither
his family had gone during the war. In September, 1865, he returned to
Franklin County and resumed his farming. He now owns eighty acres of
good land under cultivation, and has in all 200 acres. His barns and
out-buildings are well constructed, and he lives in a good one-story
house. Mr. Milton is a Master Mason of the Ozark Lodge, and his wife
is a Presbyterian.