Biography of B F Mayhue, 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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page 697 

B. F. Mayhue possesses those qualities of industry and energy which
are characteristic of people of Ohio nativity. He was born in Scioto County,
August 28, 1843, and was one of nine sons and three daughters born to the
marriage of Amos Mayhue and Margaret Stumbaugh, who were also of Ohio birth.
They were reared, educated and married in that State, and there the father
became possessed of about eighty acres of land, which he gave to his youngest
son. He subsequently removed to Illinois, and afterward came to Arkansas, and
in these two States served the public in the capacity of justice of the peace.
He and wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. B. F. Mayhue
received his schooling near Shawneetown, Ill., and while a resident of that
State was married to Miss Sarah A. Fowler, on the 10th of October, 1861, and
their marriage has been blessed in the birth of seven children; Benjamin W.,
William A., Marion M., Mary M., Sarah A. and Dora C. On the 22d of July, 1883,
he was called upon to mourn the death of his wife, she having been a native of
Illinois, and a daughter of William and Amy Fowler. Mr. Mayhue afterward
married Miss Matronia Steed, a Kentuckian, their marriage taking place on the
12th of November, 1883. Their family consists of three sons and one daughter.
Mr. Mayhue has eighty acres of his 160-acre farm under cultivation, well
supplied with all necessary stock and buildings. He is a Mason, and was a
member of the Agricultural Wheel, but resigned his membership in that
organization, not [p.697] because he objected to its principles, but to the way
it was conducted. In 1862 he enlisted in the army, under Capt. McCaleb, and the
first hard combat in which he took part was Mobile Bay, Ala. After receiving
his discharge, in November, 1865, he returned home and resumed his farming
operations, to which he has since given his attention. Mrs. Mayhue is a member
of the Methodist Church.