Biography of William R Albright, Independence Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas. 
Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
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William R. Albright was born in North Carolina on the 16th of
November, 1849, and is a son of Alvis and Mary (Stockard) Albright, both of
whom were born in North Carolina, also, and were there reared, educated and
married. Five sons and five daughters blessed their union: Samuel, George A.,
Alson G., Peggie, Nancy A., Julia E., William R., Franklin P., Mary Jane and
Harriet E. Alvis Albright was a Mason, and he and wife were members of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, in which faith he died, on March 3, 1881. His
widow still survives him, and finds a pleasant home among her children, but the
most of her time is spent in Izard County, with one of her children. William R.
Albright acquired a good practical education in Independence County, and was
married on the 22d of February, 1877, to Miss Mary Ann Meacham, who was also
born, March 2, 1855, in this State and county. Their family numbers four
children, three sons and one daughter: Alvis E. and William F. (twin sons, born
June 22, 1880), Oscar A. and Cora L. Mr. Albright owns a farm of 300 acres, and
is careful and painstaking in the cultivation of his land, and is very thorough
in everything connected with its managememt. One hundred acres he devotes to
the raising of the different cereals. He has been secretary and conduetor,
holding also other offices in the order of the I. O. O. F., of which
organization he is a member, and he and Mrs. Albright have been  members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for some time.