Biography of STERLING BURTON, 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

	Rev. STERLING BURTON, farmer, Chismville, Ark. Mr. Burton
owes his nativity to Tennessee, his birth occurring in that State
in 1832, and is a son of Squire and Rebecca (Roy) Burton, natives
also of that State. The parents moved to Arkansas in 1852, and
there passed the remainder of their days. Sterling Burton was
reared in Tennessee, and received a rather limited education in
the common schools. In 1851 he began farming for himself, and
that he has made a success of this occupation is not for a moment
to be doubted, when a glance is cast over his fine tract of land.
He enlisted at the breaking out of the war, and was in service
until peace was declared, at which time he found himself without
means to start again. However, he was not discouraged, and went
to work with renewed vigor, meeting with the success usually
following hard and persistent efforts. He was united in marriage
to Miss Lillie A. Weaver, a native of Arkansas, in 1866, and to
this union were born the following children: Charles, John,
Francis A., Rebecca J., Sarah R., Eugene, Price, Robert L. and
Ida. Mr. Burton has affiliated with the Democratic party ever
since he first commenced to vote, and is a strong adherent to
the principles of that party. He and Mrs. Burton are members of
the Church of Christ.