Izard Co., AR - Biographies - James H. Bone

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James H. Bone is a native of Izard County, born on the 18th of June, 1857, and
is one of five living members of a family of ten children born to the marriage
of A. W. Bone and Sarah L. McKee, both Tennesseeans, the former's birth
occurring on the 8th of October, 1826. He gave his attention to farming
throughout life, and is now residing on his farm of 200 acres in Izard County,
Ark., there being about seventy-five acres of his land under cultivation. He and
wife are church members, he being a member of the Old School Presbyterian Church
and she of the Cumberland Presbyterian, and they are substantial residents of
the county. James H. Bone received a good practical education in his youth, and
learned the rudiments of farm life from his father, who was a practical
agriculturist, and by attending strictly to his chosen calling he has done much
to advance the reputation the county enjoys as a prosperous farming community.
He is careful and painstaking in the cultivation of his land, and very thorough
in everything connected with its management, and of the 180 acres which he
possesses he has about sixty acres under cultivation. He was married, in his
native county, on the 7th of February, 1878, to Miss Amanda M.  Taylor, a
daughter of Stephen and Arena Taylor. Stephen Taylor was born in North Carolina.
but  moved to Tennessee at an early day and married there. He then came to
Arkansas, after which his wife died, and later he married Miss Arena Hinkle who
still survives, a resident of Izard County. She was born in the State of
Tennessee. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Bone five children have been born:
Fannie E., William H., Sarah A., Stephen W. and Samuel J. Mr. Bone has held a
number of local offices in his township, and he has always been ready and
willing to support  enterprises of a worthy character. He and wife are members
of the Missionary Baptist Church. Mr. Bone's paternal grandfather came from
Tennessee to Arkansas in 1840, and his great grandfather, McKee, was born in
Ireland. He went from there to Virginia. Grandfather McKee was born in Virginia,
in 1801 or 1802, and moved from there to Tennessee, and in 1851 he came to
Arkansas.