Biography of Rollo Archillion, Mississippi Co, AR

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Submitted by: Michael Brown
        Date: Sep 1998
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Bibliography: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas.
Chicago:  Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.

Rollo Archillion, like his brother, Reginald Archillion, is an
energetic and enterprising young agriculturist of Mississippi County,
and now owns an excellent little farm of eighty acres, situated about
one mile south of Blythesville, which property has been in his
possession since 1887. At that time but twenty-five acres were under
cultivation, but he has since made many improvements in the way of
repairing the house, building fences, and clearing up the land; he has
opened up five additional acres, and expects soon to have his entire
farm under the plow, which can be readily done. His father died when he
was an infant, but, through his own determination and the assistance of
a kind and willing mother, he succeeded in attending school until about
sixteen years of age; then, in company with his brother Reginald, he
started for [p.462] the South with the expectation of bettering his
condition, and after working in Louisiana for some time he went to
Texas, in which State he remained for very nearly two years. After
another short period spent in Louisiana he came to the State of
Arkansas, and settled in Mississippi County at Clear Lake, where he
spent some time in tilling the soil, and was there united in marriage
to Miss Elma A. Conley, a native of the county and a daughter of one of
the old and worthy settlers of this region. Mrs. Archillion owned an
interest in a farm on Clear Lake, on which they located after their
marriage, and during their two years' residence at this place Mr.
Archillion taught school. At the end of this period (in 1883) they
concluded to go to the Lone Star State, where they both engaged in
pedagoguing for three years; then returned to Mississippi County, Ark.,
where they have since made their home. Mr. and Mrs. Archillion are the
parents of two children, Maud and Mabel. The mother has been for a
number of years a consistent and worthy member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Mr. Archillion is a member of Chickasawba Lodge No.
134, F. & A. M. He is a young man whose activity and energy will one
day place him among the foremost agriculturists of the county, for
everything about his place indicates thrift, which is one of the
prominent characteristics of its owner.