Biography of J.T. LEWIS, 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.T. LEWIS, planter, Booneville, Ark. Mr. Lewis has spent
his entire life in the occupation of farming, and the manner in
which he has acquired his present possessions denotes him to be
a man of energy, push and enterprise. He was born in Jasper County,
Mo., January 13, 1845, and is a son of David and Eliza (Stanton)
Lewis, natives also of Missouri. The former was a farmer by
occupation. To his marriage were born seven children, only one
of whom, besides our subject, is living, Lila (wife of James Hicks.)
Those deceased were named Charles, Robert, Rachel, Jasper and one
unnamed. The father emigrated to Arkansas in 1855, settled in what
is now Logan County, and entered and improved some land. His death
occurred in Logan County, Ark., in 1865. The mother, who was a
consistent member of the Baptist Church, died in the same year.
J.T. Lewis was early taught the duties required on the farm, and
was married in Logan County, to Miss Rebecca McLoid, who bore him
five children, viz: Francis, William, Nancy, James E. and Mattie.
Mr. Lewis' second marriage occurred in 1869. He was a soldier in
the late war, enlisting in the cavalry, Company I, Second Arkansas
Regiment, in 1863, and serving the Union faithfully and well until
1865. Returning home he engaged in cultivating the soil, and this
has been his principal occupation up to the present. He is the
owner of 400 acres of good land, and has 300 acres under
cultivation, his principal crops being corn and cotton. He and
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is
in favor of all public improvements, such as the building up
of churches, schoolhouses, etc. His fine farm is situated two
miles west of Booneville, and he has an excellent orchard of apple
and peach trees. He also has several small fruit orchards on his
tract of land.