Biography of William M LaFevers, Fulton Co, AR

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        Date: 26 Sep 1998
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William M. Lafevers, farmer, Viola. No worthy reference to the affairs
of this county would be complete without mention of Mr. Lafevers, who, among
others, is engaged in tilling the soil. Besides enjoying to an unlimited extent
the confidence and respect of all who know him he came of a family of children
that have not only done credit to themselves but have brought honor upon the
name they bear. Mr. Lafevers' parents, Alexander and Rebecca (Bradley)
Lafevers, were both natives of North Carolina, the father born in Burke County
and the mother in Cherokee County. They moved to Hardin County, Tenn., in 1871,
to Izard County, Ark., about 1876, and to Fulton County in 1878, where Mrs.
Lafevers died in 1883. The father is still living, and is sixty-four years of
age. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, as was also his wife. He is a
farmer by occupation and served in both the Mexican and Civil Wars. Of the ten
children born to his marriage seven are still living, and all but one in Fulton
County. William M. Lafevers is the eldest child of this family. He was born in
Cherokee County, N. C., in 1852, and though his educational advantages in youth
were very meager, and though perhaps deficient in general learning, his
vigorous mind has so grasped and embraced the opportunities which have
presented themselves that he is accounted among the intelligent men of this
vicinity. He was from the first taught everything connected with farming, later
moving with his parents to Izard County. In 1875 he wedded Miss Tennessee Cole,
daughter of Henry and Mary Cole, early settlers of Arkansas, and the same year
of his marriage he moved to Fulton County. He is the owner of 207 acres of
land, with 100 under cultivation, and also has other interests. He is a
Democrat in [p.290] politics, casting his first vote for Tilden; is a member of
the Agricultural Wheel, and he and wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South.