Biography of Daniel W Breckenridge, Greene Co, AR

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        Date: 5 Sep 1998
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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas

page 125

Daniel W. Breckenridge, who is one of the sturdy sons of toil of Crowley Township,
and the son of David and Caroline (Yoekum) Breckenridge, was born in Greene County,
Ark., in 1856, and grew to manhood in that county. His parents were natives of North
Carolina, where they remained until about 1838, and then moved to Missouri, coming
from there to Arkansas, where the father died in 1877 at the age of fifty-five years.
He was a soldier in the late war, on the Confederate side, and served until cessation
of hostilities. He took an active part in church and school affairs. He was married
four times; first to Miss Kinder, who bore him four children, all deceased, and after
her death he married Miss Caroline Yoekum, and by her became the father of six
children, three now living: James D., Daniel W. and Sarah C., now Mrs. Taylor. Those
deceased were named Malinda Ann, Nancy J. and Julia Ann. After his second wife's
death Mr. Breckenridge married again, and five children were the result of this
union: One deceased, Parthenia, Amelia J., Elihu and Parris. The one deceased was
named George W. Daniel W. Breckenridge, the fourth child by the second marriage,
attained his majority in his native county, and commenced working for himself at the
age of twenty-one. He followed tilling the soil on the farm given him by his father
at the time of his death, and there he has remained ever since. He was married in
1878 to Mrs. Maria Spain, a native of Tennessee, born in 1848, and who came to
Arkansas when twenty-two years of age. She is the daughter of Hugh Spain, now
deceased, but her mother is still living and is a resident of the “Lone Star” State.
To Mr. and Mrs. Breckenridge were born six children: Rufus W., Victoria A., Ezra E.
and Willie P. Two are deceased (unnamed). Mr. Breckenridge is active in school
matters, having been school director for ten or twelve years, and is a Democrat in
politics. He is the owner of a fine farm, well under cultivation.