Biography of Dudley Lynch, 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.

Dudley Lynch, another prominent tiller of the soil in
Mississippi County, Ark., is a native of the Blue Grass State, where
he was born on the 28th of March, 1815, and is one of sixteen children
born to Jerry and Mary Ann Lynch, natives of South Carolina and
Kentucky, respectively. The father was a prominent farmer in his
native State, and died in Hickman. Dudley Lynch assisted his father in
the necessary duties upon the farm until fifteen years of age, and
then began working on a Government snag boat, which occupation he
followed during the winter season for a number of years. On April 13,
1837, he came to Arkansas, settled in Mississippi County, where he was
engaged in getting out cypress stave shingles, and was also engaged in
the general lumber business. At the same time he entered a tract of
land, 160 acres, on which he still resides. Mr. Lynch was married to
Miss Wallace in 1846, and two children were the result of this union,
both now deceased: Robert Dennis and Mary. His second marriage was
with Elizabeth Hearn, a native of Kentucky, and the daughter of Joseph
Hearn, an early settler of this county. Three living children are the
result of this marriage: Beckey, wife of Mr. McKinney; Martha, wife of
Mr. Martin, residing on our sub. ject's farm, and Dudley, who married
Miss Jennie Lock, and resides at Lynch Landing. Mrs. Lynch died
January 2, 1861. For his third wife Mr. Lynch chose, in 1865, Mrs.
Martha Ann Bertt (widow of Joseph Bertt, a native of Wisconsin). Mrs.
Bertt was a native of Missouri, and was the mother of one child by her
first marriage, V. V. Bertt, who is at present mail agent on the
Anchor Line steamboats. Mr. Bertt enlisted in the Confederate army
soon after his marriage, and served with Gen. Price. He was wounded at
Springfield, and died there soon after. His son, V. V. Bertt, attended
the public schools of Osceola for a number of years, and spent his
youth on his stepfather's farm. In 1887 he was employed on the
Government works at Memphis, and on February [p.527] 28, 1889, he
secured his appointment as mail agent on the above-named steamboats,
which position he holds at the present time. Van., as he is familiarly
called, is a young man of pleasing manners, courteous and agreeable,
and one of the rising young men of this section. To the marriage of
Mr. and Mrs. Lynch these children have been born: Minerva Emma, wife
of F. L. McGee, residing near Elmot; John D., who died at the age of
seventeen years; Peter Calvin, who was accidentally shot on the 21st
of November, 1884; Julia Ann, James L. and Lena Lillian. On the tract
of land that Mr. Lynch originally entered he now has the entire tract
under cultivation, all well fenced, with a good orchard. He has other
farms which he has improved, and his children are residing on these.
Lynch's Landing, which was opened on Mr. Lynch's place in 1881, was
named in honor of him.