Biography of A A Rounsaville, 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.

A. A. Rounsaville. The occupation which this gentleman now follows has
received his attention the greater part of his life, and it is but the
truth to say that in it he is thoroughly posted and well informed, and
his labors in this direction have contributed very materially to the
reputation Mississippi County enjoys as a rich farming region. Like
many of the residents of the county he is a Tennesseean by birth,
having been born in 1839, and was the eighth of eleven children born
to Clayborn and Elizabeth Rounsaville, who were born, reared and
married in the State of Alabama, and shortly after removed to
Tennessee. In 1851 they resolved to move still farther to the west,
and accordingly settled in Mississippi County, Ark., where they opened
up a large section of land, on which they spent the remaining years of
their lives, the father dying in 1867, and the mother in 1854. From
earliest youth A. A. Rounsaville has been familiar with the duties of
farm labor, and up to the breaking out of the late war he was engaged
in following this occupation, and in attending the old time
subscription schools. He espoused the cause of the Confederacy and
joined Capt. Fletcher's company, and was a participant in the battles
of Shiloh and Farmington, but after the latter battle was discharged
from service on account of sickness, and returned home. In 1864 he re-
enlisted in Price's command, and accompanied that general on his raid
through Missouri, taking an active part in all the battles of that
campaign. After his surrender at Shreveport, La., in 1865, he returned
to Mississippi County, Ark., where, until 1868, he was engaged in
rafting and wood-chopping. The three following years he farmed the old
family homestead, and in 1871 bought a tract of forty acres, one mile
east of Blythesville, on which farm he has since built a commodious
and substantial dwelling-house, and has reduced twenty-five acres to
cultivation and otherwise added greatly to its improvement. He has
purchased forty more acres of land, and also is the owner of some
valuable town property. His lands are fertile, and will produce one
bale of cotton to the acre, and forty bushels of corn. He also gives
considerable attention to the propagation of a good grade of stock. He
was married in 1868 to Mrs. Nancy Hudgins, formerly Miss Synclear.