Biography of Jesse Kenemure, Greene Co, AR

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

page 152

Jesse Kenemure, a successful farmer and stock-raiser of Jones Township, was
born in Georgia, in 1819, and is the sixth in a family of eight children born to
David and Lucy (Price) Kenemure, natives of South Carolina. The parents remained in
their native State until after their marriage, and then moved to Georgia, where the
mother died a few years later. The father again married and lived in that State until
his death. Jesse Kenemure assisted his father in the arduous duties on the farm until
nineteen years of age, after which he began farming for himself, and this occupation
has continued all his life. He was married when twenty-one years of age to Miss
Rebecca Rock, a native of Georgia; and eight children were the result of this union,
four now living. They are named as follows: Lucinda [p.152] Margaret (deceased),
James Franklin, married and lives on his father's place; N. W., married and lives on
Crowley's Ridge; Charles D., married and lives in this township; Missouri Jane, died
in Georgia; William Ross, died in Georgia; L. W., married and resides in Greene
County, and Margaret. Jesse Kenemure followed farming in Georgia, until 1856, when he
moved directly to Greene County, Ark., and settled on the west side of Crowley's
Ridge, where he bought forty acres of wild land. He immediately began improving, by
erecting buildings and clearing land, etc., and after having cleared about thirty
acres and remaining there for some twelve years, he sold out and moved to Jones'
Ridge, being one of four families in that section. He bought 180 acres of land,
cleared 100 acres, erected buildings, set out an extensive orchard of all kinds of
fruits, and has surrounded himself with everything to make a pleasant, comfortable
home. During the late war he was with Price on his Missouri raid, and was in the
battles of Iron Mountain, Blue Lick, Independence and Boonville. He is a member of
the Wheel, and is an active worker in the cause of education.