Izard Co., AR - Biographies - Marion D. Crutchfield

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Marion D. Crutchfield was born in Orange County, N. C., in 1846, and is a son of
James W. Crutchfield, who was born in North Carolina, July 6, 1811. The latter
first married Levina the daughter of Alex. Lashley, their union taking place on
the 13th of March, 1836, but her death occurred the following year, she having
borne one child, Salina. For his second wife he took, in 1841, a daughter of
Acquilla Jones, her name being Sallie P., and three sons and three daughters
have been born to them. Mr. Crutchfield emigrated from North Carolina to White
County, Ark., in 1849, and here he took up government land to the amount of 160
acres, near Searcy, but the following year he moved to Newton County, and bought
eighty acres and entered eighty acres more, and here made his home until his
death in 1860, his wife. who was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
having died here a year earlier. Marion D. Crutchfield, having learned farming
and blacksmithing of his father, began doing for himself  in 1861, and when the
war broke out he joined the infantry, but afterward joined the cavalry under
Capt. Harvey Lane. In 1863 he was captured in Newton County, Ark., and at the
end of about three weeks, after being kept at Springfield, was released, and
joined the Federal army. After his return home he resumed farming and
blacksmithing, and by his own good management has a fine farm of 580 acres, with
250 acres under cultivation, his principal products being corn, cotton, millet
and the small grains. He has a fine fruit orchard of about 500 bearing trees,
and, take it all-in-all, he has one of the finest and best improved farms in the
county. In connection with his farm work, he has also been engaged in
blacksmithing. He is a Democrat, a member of the I. O. O. F., and he and wife,
whom he married on the 7th of January, 1869, and whose maiden name was Martha M.
Cargill, are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and are the
parents of the following children: Lucian E., Ida A., Elmer W. and Henry G.
Those deceased are James P., Florence I. and Marion F. His wife was born in
Kentucky in 1846, and is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Cargill, the former
a native of North Carolina, born in 1812, and the latter of Kentucky, born in
1819. This couple became the parents of the following family: William, James,
Mary E., Sarah M and Susan S.; and those deceased are Thomas C., Jonathan and
Louise. Mr. and Mrs. Cargill are residing in Izard County, and the former is a
member of the Baptist Church.