Biography of John D Aydelott, 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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John D. Aydelott, a successful farmer of Oil Trough, is the son of A.
P. Aydelott and Martha J. Aydelott, who were the parents of twelve children,
John D. being the fourth child. Five lived to be grown: M. J., J. D., A. W., S.
E. and A. P. Aydelott, Jr., who is also a successful farmer in Oil Trough. A.
P. Aydelott, Sr., was one of the oldest settlers of Oil Trough Bottom, coming
to Oil Trough in 1844, bringing the first stock of goods that was sold in Oil
Trough. He bought 240 acres of land from Joe Egner, and cleared 200, and farmed
and made stock raising a success. At the beginning of the Civil War Mr. A. P.
Aydelott was opposed to the States seceding, but after they did he cast his lot
with the Confederacy. In politics before the war he was a Whig, but afterward a
Democrat. A. P. Aydelott came to Arkansas from Tennessee in 1836, first
settling in Little Rock, afterward Elizabeth, thence to Oil Trough, where he
and his wife (whom he married in 1844), Martha J. Birdsong, also of Tennessee,
lived happily together until death claimed the father and [p.635] husband,
October 16, 1880. His widow and the mother of our subject, followed August 26,
1884. They were buried in the family graveyard on the farm. They were both
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The five children living are
all doing well. One girl, S. E., is an invalid, and lives with the youngest
brother.