Biography of J.R. ROPER, 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.R. ROPER, farmer, Morrison Bluff, Ark. Mr. Roper is
possessed of those advanced ideas and principles regarding
agricultural life which seem to be among the chief characteristics
of the average native Tennesseean. He was born in McMinn County,
of that State, in 1832, and his parents, J.M. and Mary M. (Giddon)
Roper, were natives of the Big Bend State also. The mother died in
Tennessee, and the father moved to Arkansas, locating in Logan County
in 1881. J.R. Roper was reared in Bradley County, Tenn., and his
educational facilities were limited. At the age of twenty years
he began life as a farmer, which occupation he has since continued
to follow and the success which seems to attend his efforts is well
merited, for no one is more thoroughly interested in this calling,
or gives it greater attention. In the fall of 1861 he enlisted in
the army, and was in active duty until cessation of hostilities. He
was captured in the fall of 1864, was sent to Johnson's Island, Ohio,
and there remained for seven months. In 1857 he celebrated his marriage
to Miss Frances Randolph, the daughter of J. and Margaret Randolph.
The result of this union was the following children: Jeptha M.,
William M., P.R. and John F. Jeptha M. died when a young man, and
P.R. died in infancy. Mr. Roper and his sons are stanch Democrats
in their political preferences, and their votes are cast with that
party at all times. Mrs. Roper and children are members of the
Missionary Baptist Church.