Biography of Isaac Magness, 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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Isaac Magness is a properous farmer and stockman, residing on Section 14,
Christian Township, Independence County, Ark., his postoffice address being Oil
Trough. He is a son of Josiah and Parilee (Williams) Magness, his maternal
grandfather being Isaac Williams; the paternal grandfather was a soldier in the
War of 1812, and a participant in the battle of New Orleans. Isaac Magness was
born in Fayette County, Tenn., May 24, 1836, and was there reared to manhood
and educated, but came with his parents to Arkansas in 1857. They resided in
Cross County until 1867, then moved to Independence County, and purchased 130
acres of land, a portion of which was under cultivation, and here resided until
the father's death, in 1870, he being the owner of 150 acres at that time. His
wife died in 1880. Isaac Magness enlisted in the Confederate army in 1862, and
was a member of Col. Bob Shaver's regiment, serving until June, 1885, and was a
participant in the battle of Little Rock, and numerous skirmishes. After his
return from the war he again took up the implements of farm life, and has
continued in this calling up to the present time. His first purchase of land
was in 1870, and consisted of eighty acres, but he sold this two years later
and purchased land in Christian Township, which he also sold in 1879. His
present farm consists of 243 acres, and at the time he purchased it there were
but fifteen acres under cultivation, and it was only improved by a small log
cabin. He now has 130 acres cleared and 110 acres under cultivation, and on
this is an excellent frame dwelling-house and other good buildings. He is a
member of McGuire Lodge No. 208, of the A. F. & A. M., at Oil Trough, and has
always been known as a liberal and public spirited citizen. He was married on
the 1st of September, 1868, to Miss Missouri Hungatte, a native of Arkansas,
whose father was born in Illinois and her mother in Indiana. To them the
following family have been given: Willie Lee, who was born on the 22d of
August, 1869; Elisha T., whose birth occurred September 9, 1871; John M., who
was born February 22, 1875, and Hardy Marquis, born January 4, 1880. The eldest
child, Miss Willie Lee, was married to James Monroe Nichols on the 26th of May,
1889, her husband being a son of John G. and Nancy (McGuire) Nichols.