Biography of William F. Sawyer, 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 F. Sawyer, proprietor of a livery and feed stable, and a
successful agriculturist, now residing in Mulberry, is a native of
Arkansas, his birth occurring July 18, 1835. He is the son of John G.
and Gabriella (Nickson) Sawyer, natives of Vermont and Tennessee,
respectively, the father of Irish-English descent and the mother of
Scotch-French. They reared two children, our subject being the eldest.
He attained his growth on a farm, and followed agricultural pursuits
until about 1854, when he went to California by the overland route,
and here remained thirteen years engaged in mining and keeping hotel.
In 1867 he returned to Arkansas and resumed the occupation of farming.
In 1863, while in California, he met and married Miss Sarah A. Alford,
a native of Indianapolis, Ind. She died in 1864, leaving one child,
Sarah J. Mr. Sawyer was married in Franklin County, Ark., in 1867, and
chose for his second wife Miss Mary E. Adams, who was born in
Tennessee, and who is the daughter of William Adams. Six children were
the result of this union: Henry G., Julia, Johnnie (deceased),
Catherine, Ada J., and Alice Nevada, born August 30, 1875, died July
1, 1876. Mr. Sawyer is the owner of a house and lot in Mulberry, also
a business house, and near that village he has 300 acres of land, 240
under cultivation. He is fitted out with all the requirements of a
first-class livery barn, has nine head of horses, eleven carriages and
buggies, and his rates are very reasonable. He is a member of Pleasant
Hill Masonic Lodge No. 233, and is a Democrat in his political
principles. Mr. Sawyer is also engaged in farming quite extensively,
and is quite a stock dealer. He has about twenty-four acres of land in
peanuts.