Biography of William Wainwright, Fulton Co, AR

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        Date: 26 Sep 1998
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William Wainwright is recognized as a careful, energetic agriculturist of
Fulton County, and by his advanced ideas, progressive habits, and liberal
contributions to worthy enterprises, he has gained the respect and esteem of
his fellow men. His birth occurred in Madison County, Ala., in 1826, and he is
a son of William and Nancy (Turner) Wainwright, who were born in Virginia and
Tennessee. respectively. Upon first leaving his native State, he went to
Georgia, but before his marriage moved from Alabama, where he had located, to
Arkansas, in 1853, locating in Independence County, but afterward died in Sharp
County in 1855, at the age of seventy-three years. He was a soldier in the War
of 1812. William Wainwright is one of his nine children, and was reared to
manhood on a farm in Alabama, but when his father came to the State of
Arkansas, he came with him and here has since made his home. He was married in
Sharp County, on the 28th of February, 1860, to Miss Margaret Elizabeth
Huddleston, and by her has had a family of nine children: John B., who died at
the age of nine months; Louise, who died in 1884 at the age of twenty-two
years: Laura P., William E., Mary M., Martha M., Samuel P., Lucy M. and
Gundoland. During the late Civil War Mr. Wainwright served four years under Gen
Price being in the commissary department the most of the time. In 1862 he came
to Fulton County, Ark., and is now the owner of 1.346 acres of land in the
country and considerable property in town. He has the finest dwelling house in
the county, it being a fine brick structure containing eight large rooms.
Politically he has always affiliated with the Democratic party, and socially he
is a member of the A. F. & A. M., being a Master Mason. He belongs to the
Methodist Episcopal Church.