Biography of Seth W Peebles, Greene Co, AR

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

page 165

Seth W. Peebles, one of the many successful agriculturists and stock raisers
of Greene County, Ark., and one who has attained wealth by the sweat of his brow, is
classed among the prosperous men of the county. He was born in North Carolina in
1825, and is the eldest one of the family of six children born to the marriage of
Wyatt and Nancy (Biggs) Peebles, who were born in North Carolina and emigrated to
Virginia, where they were engaged in husbandry. The mother died in that State, and
subsequently the father emigrated to Greene County, Ark., and in 1842 settled near
Greensboro, where he became well and [p.165] favorably known, and served as sheriff
of the county six years. He died in December, 1876. Seth W. Peebles has been familiar
with farm life from earliest youth, and received his education in the schools of
Virginia. He began his independent career as a farmer in 1846, in Tennessee, and was
married there in December of the following year to Miss Catherine Mingle, a native of
Virginia, and a daughter of William and Rebecca (Kagley) Mingle, who were also
Virginians and early emigrants to Tennessee, in which State the father died. His
wife's death occurred in Arkansas in 1864. Mr. Peebles became a resident of Greene
County, Ark., in 1855, and in 1859 bought a partially improved farm in Union
Township, consisting of 160 acres, of which he improved and cleared forty acres.
Besides this property he owns the old homestead of 117 acres, sixty of which are
under cultivation. He has always been interested in politics and has affiliated with
the Democratic party, but is not an office-seeker. He has been a member of the school
board several times and assisted in the re-organization of the townships. In 1872 his
wife died, having borne a family of six children: Nancy Jane, Rebecca E., who died in
February, 1877, the wife of Joel Dollins; George W., who died in 1886; John M., who
died in October, 1878; Sarah Ann, wife of J. P. Walls, who died in 1880; and James
L., who also died in 1880. In 1863 Mr. Peebles enlisted in Company K. Seventh
Missouri Confederate cavalry, and was with Price on his raid through Missouri,
Kansas, etc. He was wounded in the Mine Creek fight in Kansas, receiving a gunshot
through the right lung. Since the war he has been engaged in farming. He is a
consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.