Biography of W.R. BEVENS, Logan Co, AR

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Submitted by:  Delaine Edwards <delaine@ipa.net>
        Date:  29 Jun 1999
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SOURCE: Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago and Nashville, 1891.
Logan County

	W.R. BEVENS, groceryman, Booneville, Ark. The grocery trade
constitutes a leading feature of the commercial fabric of the town
of Booneville, being extensively engaged in, and conducted with
ability and success. Prominent among those identified with it is
Mr. W.R. Bevens. This gentleman was born in Fulton County, Ark.,
June 17, 1851, and was one of four children born to Andrew and Mary
(James) Bevens, the father a farmer by occupation. The father and
mother both died in Missouri, in 1856, on the same day, and of
pneumonia. They were buried in the same coffin. Of their four
children, only one besides our subject is now living, Hester (wife
of James A. Dibel.) Those deceased were James and Houston. The
maternal grandfather, James S. James, came to Arkansas in 1849,
and brought our subject with him, when the later was but a small
boy. W.R. was reared to the arduous duties of the farm, and was
married in Jackson County, of this State, in 1873, to Miss Jennie
Patrick, who bore him nine children, four now living: Latha,
Oscar M., Boswell M. and Chandler. Those deceased were Hattie,
Luther, Archie C., Nellie, and one died unnamed. Mr. Bevens owns
forty acres of well-improved land, and is one of the thrifty,
enterprising men of the county. In 1888 he engaged in the grocery
business, and this he has since followed successfully. He is upright
and honorable in his dealings, and has achieved by positive merit
a high position.