Biography of W C Newberry, Greene Co, AR

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

page 162

W. C. Newberry is in every way worthy of being classed among the prosperous planters
of Greene County, Ark. He was born in Weakley County, West Tenn., in 1852, and was
the sixth of eleven children born to Samuel and Nancy (Trantham) Newberry, the former
a native of North Carolina, and the latter of Tennessee. In 1854 they moved to Greene
County, Ark., and settled near the farm on which W. C. Newberry is now residing,
where they entered land and resided until their respective deaths, the father's
demise occurring in February, 1874, and the mother's in 1883. They took quite an
important part in the early history of the country, and the father assisted in
organizing the county. W. C. Newberry received his early education in the district
schools of Greene County, and aided at home in opening up his father's farm. He was
married in Greene County, in 1872, to Miss Martha Jane McHaney, who was born in
Arkansas, and is a daughter of John and Sally (Sims) McHaney, Tennesseeans. Mr.
Newberry soon located on his present farm of 120 acres, about fifty-five acres of
which he has cleared and put under cultivation. He has added to his original purchase
until he now has 200 acres of as good land as there is in the county, with 110 under
the plow, the principal products of which are corn and cotton. Mr. Newberry is
independent in politics, and is not an office-seeker. In 1874 he lost his wife, and
four years later he was married to Mary H. Hartso, of Arkansas. His first union was
blessed by one son, Samuel; and his last by four children: Luther, Clifton, Charley
and Tuler. His wife is a daughter of William and Sarah (McFarland) Hartso, who came
to Arkansas at an early day. The father is still living, but the mother is deceased.
Mr. Newberry has been active in aiding all laudable enterprises, and is one of the
self made men of the county.