Biography of J.P. CORLEY, 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

	J.P. CORLEY, ginner, miller and farmer, Paris, La.[sic] Mr.
Corley, one of the substantial citizens of the county, whose name
is almost too well known to need any comment, was born in Mississippi,
on October 14, 1846. His parents, James and Martha (Williams) Corley,
were natives, respectively, of Alabama and North Carolina. The father
was a farmer by occupation, and was engaged in this pursuit in
Mississippi until 1858, when he came to Arkansas, settling in Logan
County. He died in 1863-4, while a soldier in the army. The mother
is also deceased. Both were members of the Missionary Baptist Church.
Of their children, eight in number, six are now living: J.P., Jesse A.,
W.Y., John E., Susan F. (wife of L. Mobeley), Pauline E. (wife of
J.R. Lee), G.T., Leroy F. (deceased), and Mary E. J.P. Corley
attained his growth principally in Arkansas, receiving his education
in that State, and was married in Logan County, Ark., in the year
1868, to Miss Mary F. Cunningham, a native of Mississippi, born in
1849. Seven children have been born to that union, six now living:
James W., M.E. (wife of Frank Lee), Henry E., Emma, Lena A. (deceased),
Rufus A. and Winford A. The mother of these children died in 1882.
She was a member of the Baptist Church, and an estimable lady. Mr.
Corley built a steam cotton-gin in 1889, with a capacity of eight
bales per day, and he is the owner of seventy-seven acres of land
with fifty acres under cultivation. His principal crops are corn
and cotton, and last year he ginned 180 bales of the named article.
In 1882 he built a nice frame house, has a good barn and has a
fine fruit orchard consisting of 100 apple and 50 peach trees,
also fifty grapevines. He is a member of the Primitive Baptist
Church, and donates liberally to all public enterprises of a
laudable nature.