Biography of J L Quarles, 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.

J. L. Quarles, who is numbered among the prominent
agriculturists of Mississippi County, Ark., is a native of
Tallahatchee County, Miss., where he remained until the breaking out
of the late war, when he enlisted in Company D, Twenty-seventh
Mississippi Volunteer Infantry, and served in Alabama and Tennessee,
also taking part in the Perryville, Ky., battle. He was in the battles
of Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, and in the latter battle was wounded, by
having a minie ball enter his neck and come out near the spinal
column. He next took part in the battle of Lookout Mountain, where the
company went in thirty-seven strong, and only six returned unscathed.
He was at Missionary Ridge, Resaca (Ga.), New Hope Church, Atlanta,
Jonesboro, and Franklin (Tenn.), and was mustered out and paroled at
Grenada, Miss., after which he returned to Tallahatchee County, and
there followed agricultural pursuits for two years. From there he went
to Carroll County, of the same State, and after tilling the soil until
December, 1887, he and family took possession of Shawnee Village, for
Mrs. W. S. Bransford, of Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Quarles superintends the
whole place, which consists of 1,400 acres, with 700 under
cultivation. He thinks Arkansas one of the best countries in the world
in which to raise live stock, especially mules, and says he has twenty
head on the place for which he would not take $140 per head. These
mules have lived entirely on the range, winter and summer, with no
expense except a little attention in the way salting, etc. Mr. Quarles
says you may take a mule out of the plow in July, when it is almost
worked to a shadow, and in a few weeks it will be fat and in good
condition. The above mentioned gentleman is a member of the firm of
Quarles Bros., who are now renting 300 acres of the Warner farm, in
this county, near McGavock. Mr. Quarles chose for his life companion
Miss L. F. Merrill, of Carroll County, Miss., where their children
were all born. These are named as follows: B. W., now at home; Anna
Merrill, J. L., Jr., Merrill, Oliver P. and Lucy F. They lost one
child, the eldest, at the age of three years. Mrs. Quarles is the
daughter of J. W. S. Merrill, of Carroll [p.546] County, Miss., where
he is a civil engineer of considerable note He has been elected
assessor and collector of Le Flore County, and has been surveyor of
the United States land office for many years. Mr. Quarles has been a
member of the Masonic Lodge of Greenwood, Miss., for the past eighteen
years, and he and wife and three eldest children are members of the
Christian Church.