Biography of GEORGE KINCANNON, 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

	GEORGE KINCANNON, farmer, Magazine, Ark. This old and
much-esteemed citizen of Logan County was originally from
Georgia, born in 1823, and his parents, John and Rachel
Kincannon, were natives of Tennessee and South Carolina
respectively. The parents moved to Georgia in 1822, and one
year later moved to Tennessee, where our subject was principally
reared. The latter received a limited education in the common
schools, and in 1843 he began farming for himself, having
followed that occupation from early childhood, at which time
his services were brought into requisition on his father's farm.
He is now the owner of 320 acres of land in Boone Township, Logan
County, and is a prominent and very successful tiller of the soil.
In 1863 he enlisted in the army, served one year and then was
elected sheriff of Scott County, Ark., after which he left the
army. In the year 1846 he was united in marriage to Miss Eliza
Wallen, daughter of Stephen and Betsy (Igo) Wallen. Mr.
Kincannon's second marriage was with Miss Margaret Bowen in
1871. She was the daughter of E. and Margaret Bowen, natives
of South Carolina. Mr. Kincannons's present wife is a native
of Tennessee and was born in 1833. They have three children who
are named as follows: Martha, Sophronia and Samuel. Mr. and Mrs.
Kincannon are church members, he of the Presbyterian and she of
the Christian denomination and they are liberal to all worthy
movements. In politics Mr. Kincannon is a stanch Democrat.