Ephriam B. Pierce, Ouachita County, AR -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE: Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889. Contributed by Carol Smith. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ouachita County, Arkansas - from Goodspeed's History of Arkansas Ephriam B. Pierce is now a prosperous farmer of Union Township, Ouachita County, Arkansas, and was born in Gwinnett County, Georgia in 1822, being a son of William and Elizabeth (Holbrook) Pierce, who were born in Georgia and East Tennessee, respectively, their marriage taking place in Gwinnett County, Georgia, and here Mr. Pierce spent the rest of his days, dying when the subject of this sketch was quite small. After his death his widow married again and removed to Mississippi, where she died just before the war. Her father, Caleb Holbrook, was a Tennesseean, and there passed from life, his wife dying in Georgia. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Ephriam B. Pierce is the third of five children, and he and a sister who lives in Georgia, and brother living in Mississippi, are the surviving members of the family. He received a common school education, was reared to farm life, and began working at that calling for himself at the age of seventeen years. He was married in his native county in the month of June, 1840, to Miss Jane Brownlow, who died in Calhoun County, Arkansas, about 1866, and the following year Mr. Pierce wedded Mrs. Parthenia A. Richardson, a daughter of Ishmael Steward. She was born in Stewart County, Georgia, and has borne Mr. Pierce three children, his first wife having borne him eight children. Mr. Pierce lived for some years in Mississippi, but in 1855, settled in Calhoun County, Arkansas, where he improved a good farm and made his home until 1870, when he came to his present farm, which consists of about 480 acres four miles north of Bearden. He also has a good farm of 440 acres in Calhoun County, all of which he has obtained by his own efforts. He ahs always been a Democrat in politics, and for some years has held the office of justice of the peace in Calhoun and Ouachita Counties. He and wife are members of the Missionary Baptist Church.