Biography of J.H. COUNCIL, 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.H. COUNCIL, farmer, Ellsworth, Ark. No worthy reference
to the affairs of this county would be complete without mention of
Mr. Council, who, among others, is engaged in tilling the soil. His
parents, Howard and Lucinda (Gallaherd) Council, were both natives
of Tennessee, and of the five children born to their union, two
besides our subject are now living: Howard, residing in Sebastian
County, Ark., and Benjamin S., of Logan County. J.H. Council was
taught the duties of farm life when but a boy, and when twenty
years of age he started out for himself as a farmer, continuing
in that occupation until coming to Arkansas. He was married in 1846
to Miss Elizabeth Rogers, a native of Tennessee, born in 1832, and
the daughter of James and Elizabeth Rogers. The fruits of this union
have been ten children, seven now living: Howard, Cleopatra (wife of
J.E. Bennett), Candacy (wife of Frank Selph), Charley, Virginia (wife
of George Deen), Rufus and Ida. Mr. Council came to Arkansas in 1850,
located in Clarksville, Johnson County, where he remained until 1852,
and then removed to what is now Logan County, where he entered 160
acres of land. He cleared eighty acres, built a good house, stable,
dug wells, and set out a good orchard. To the original tract he has
since added forty acres. His land is unusually productive, and he
raises corn, wheat, oats and some cotton. In 1862 he enlisted in
the Confederate service, Company B, Sixteenth Arkansas Infantry,
and afterward, at the reorganization of the army, after the battle
of Corinth, he was transferred to the cavalry service. He was
engaged in the battle of Elk Horn, Corinth, and in the Price raid
through Missouri, during which time he was captured and sent to
Rock Island, Ill., where he was retained about five months. He was
then sent to Richmond for exchange a short time previous to the
evacuation of that city. He was wounded in the leg at Corinth. Mr.
Council is a member of Pleasant Mound Lodge, A.F. & A.M., of which
he has been treasurer for several terms. Mr. Council lost his wife
in 1882. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church. In 1884 Mr.
Council married Miss Elizabeth Self, a native of Tennessee, born in
1826, and who has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church
the greater portion of her life. Mr. Council is a member of the
Presbyterian Church, of which he is elder, and he is a gentleman
highly esteemed by all.