Goodspeed's Biography of Y. B. McCool, Grant Co, AR

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        Date: 21 Sep 2003

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Y. B. McCool, of Merry Green Township, Grant County, Ark., owes his
nativity to Alabama, and is the son of Andrew and Katie (Gentry)
McCool, both originally of the same State.  He was born in 1826, in
Montgomery County, where most of his younger days were spent.
Andrew, his father, moved to Arkansas about 1858, and settled in
Grant County, remaining there till his death, which occurred in 1876.
Y. B. McCool received his education in the schools of Alabama, and
was married, in 1851, to Elizabeth Bright, of that State.  After his
marriage he continued his farming for four years, but in 1855 moved
to Arkansas, and settled in what is now Grant County, and on the same
tract of land which he now occupies.  He has 240 acres of land,
seventy-five of which are in an excellent state of cultivation, with
165 acres of timber land.  To one less sanguine the prospect of the
farm in its early stage would have been most disheartening, but Mr.
McCool knew that where there was a will a way would follow, and the
result of his untiring and unceasing labor would satisfy the most
fastidious.  Substantial buildings are all in good repair, and in
fact he may look with pardonable pride at the outcome of his own
efforts.  He is also one of the pioneers who helped to transfer this
dense wilderness to its present state.  In July, 1886, Mr. McCool was
bereft of his wife, who left seven children: George W., Mary E.,
William A., Henry L., Martha, Margaret and Franklin.  In 1887, he
married Mrs. Serepta Stockton, a native of Alabama.  They are members
of the Baptist Church, and respected by the entire community.