Biography of James F Saffold, 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 713 

James F. Saffold, a popular and enterprising farmer and stock raiser,
of Independence County, is a son of James F. and Elizabeth (Hulsey) Saffold,
both natives of that county, where James, Jr., was born on the 2d of July,
1854. The elder Saffold was a noted and brilliant politician during his life,
as also a leading spirit in all public enterprises for the advancement of his
county. He was elected to represent Independence County in the State
legislature, and filled the office with credit to himself and to the
satisfaction of his constituents, besides filling several minor positions. On
the occasion of his death, at the age of forty-five years, the county lost one
of her most valued citizens and one whom she well appreciated. He belonged to
McGuire Lodge No. 208, A. F. & A. M., and was also a member of Oil Trough
Chapter No. 84. His loss was deeply mourned by the public, as well as his wife
and six children, to whom he was a kind husband and an indulgent father. He was
strictly a self-made man, having received but a limited education in his youth;
but the brain and power of the man were equal to any emergency, and in after
life he had educated and qualified himself for any position he might have been
called upon to fill within the gift of the people, or in the ordinary demands
of business. His son, James F. Saffold, Jr., follows closely in the light of
his father's [p.713] many good qualities, and is a representative citizen of
the county. Added to what he inherited from his father's estate, he now owns
250 acres of land, with 175 acres under cultivation, and has erected one good
dwelling, several tenant houses and barns upon the place. Mr. Saffold is not a
member of any particular religious faith, but he has contributed to a great
many causes, both religious and educational; and outside of his large circle of
friends in Christian Township, is well known throughout Independence County.