Izard Co., AR - Biographies - Alfred N. McNairn

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Alfred N. McNairn was born in Georgia, in 1842, and is one of seven sons and
four daughters born to Alfred T. and Prudence (Horton) McNairn, and is a
grandson of Edwin Horton. Alfred T. McNairn was born in North Carolina, December
15, 1813, and was reared on a farm, but in 1826 moved to Georgia, where he
followed the occupation of farming; he was also engaged in preaching the Gospel,
being a minister of the Missionary Baptist Church, and there reared his
children, whose names are as follows: Larkin H., Spencer B., Edwin B., Joseph
U., William L., Alfred N., Alvin C., Martha J., A. L., Eliza M. and Rosa A. Both
parents died in the State of Georgia, his death occurring in 1870, and hers in
1868, at the age of fifty-eight years. Alfred N. McNairn emigrated from Georgia
to Izard County, Ark., in 1860, and was here married, in 1872, to Miss Nancy E.
Duren, a daughter of James E. Duren. Of the eight children born to them the
following are living: Thomas E., Mary L., Francis P. E., Dolores A., Zef R. and
Newton A. In 1873 Mr. McNairn purchased eighty acres of woodland, but he now
owns 100 acres of good land, with forty eight acres under cultivation, it being
well improved and furnished with one of the finest fruit orchards in this
section of the country. He and wife are members of the Missionary Baptist
Church, and he belongs to the I. O. O. F., and in his political views is a
Democrat, and always supports the men and measures of that party. He espoused
the cause of the Confederacy during the rebellion, and in 1862 enlisted in the
Fifty second Georgia Infantry, and served until the close of the war, when he
surrendered at Kingston, Ga. He was a member of Company I, under Capt. Russell,
and was in a number of hard fought battles.