Biography of W.H. FORT, 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.H. FORT, hotel keeper, Paris, Ark. The town of Paris
is to be congratulated on her good hotels, among which, that
conducted by that popular and genial gentleman, W.H. Fort,
ranks prominent. This gentleman was born May 20, 1822, and is a
son of Spear and Margaret (Tittsworth) Fort, the father a native
of North Carolina, and the mother of Tennessee. The mother was
captured by the Creek Indians when ten years of age, and was
released after a year's captivity. She married Mr. Fort in the
last named State, and to this union were born twelve children -
six sons and six daughters. At an early day the parents removed
to Cooper County, Mo., entered land, and there the father tilled
the soil until his death in 1828. The same year his widow removed
to Logan County, Ark., with her children and there received her
final summons in 1847. W.H. Fort, the next to the youngest child,
was married in 1846 to Miss Nancy Sewell, daughter of John Sewell
of Mississippi, she being a native of that State. Her father
removed from Mississippi to Arkansas when Mrs. Fort was about
ten years of age, and when she was sixteen years of age she was
married to Mr. Fort. Eleven children were born to this union:
Susan M., Mary T., Belle, James, Sallie, Harmon, Eudora, Isabella,
Jefferson, Maud, and the next died in infancy. They have seven
children now living. Mr. Fort is now the owner of the Paris Hotel
in Paris, his property being worth about $5,000, and by his social,
pleasant manners has won many patrons. Having followed the active
duties of the farm for many years he became too old to follow the
plow any longer, and so he gave his land, which amounted to about
2,000 acres altogether, to his children, while he chose the hotel
business for himself. He is a Mason and one of the oldest and most
esteemed citizens of Logan County, of which he has been a resident
for sixty-two years. He and wife are both church members, he of the
Cumberland Presbyterian and she of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South.