Biography of R L Joiner, 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.

R. L. Joiner. It can not be denied that a man who lives
according to the highest principles of what he conceives to be right,
helping others and in a word, keeping as his aim the Golden Rule, will
receive the most sincere esteem of his fellow creatures. Such a one is
the subject of this sketch. Born in Shelby County, Tenn., he is the
son of R. S. Joiner, and the grandson of Jack Joiner, who emigrated
from North Carolina when R. S. Joiner was a small boy. The latter was
also a native of Shelby County, Tenn. R. L. Joiner was born on the
corner of Poplar and Second Streets, Memphis, Tenn., and there
remained until eighteen years of age, receiving a good practical
education in the schools of that city. At the above-mentioned age he
left the State of his nativity and journeyed to Crittenden County,
Ark., where he remained for about five years. In 1868 he came to
Mississippi County, Ark., and in the year 1880 settled on what is
known as the Parker place, west of Frenchman's Bayou, where he has
cleared by contract about forty acres since coming to the county. Mr.
Joiner is a wide-awake, stirring farmer, and his improvements about
the place are all of a superior order. [p.518] In 1880 he was united
in marriage with Miss M. L. Price, daughter of Mrs. Mary E. Price, of
Lee County, Miss., and the fruits of this union have been three
children: Ada Mary, Anna Ruth and Emma Blanche, all at home. Aside
from his own farm, Mr. Joiner rents about sixty-two acres, and is
engaged in cotton planting on the same, averaging about three-fourths
of a bale of cotton to the acre. He is a member of the Agricultural
Wheel.