Biography of Leroy Dawson, Sebastian Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Leroy Dawson is a worthy tiller of the soil in Sebastian County, Ark., and owns
a fertile farm of 160 acres, 110  of which are under cultivation. He is the
eldest of eight children, and was born in Jackson County, Ala., June  26, 1824,
and from his earliest boyhood up has been engaged in farming. At the age of
twenty he began the  battle of life for himself, and June 26, 1847, was married
in Missouri, whither he had moved with his parents, to  Elizabeth C. Burtoff,
by whom he became the father of four sons and three daughters. For his second
wife he  chose Miss Elizabeth Wilhite, who bore him one son and five daughters.
Mr. Dawson is a Democrat, and since  1879 has been a resident of Sebastian
County, Ark. His parents, Larkin and Lucinda (Williams) Dawson, were  born in
North and South Carolina, respectively, and when quite young were taken to
Jackson County, Ala.,  where they married and lived until about 1842, when they
took up their abode in Crawford County, Mo. They  both died in 1864 at a good
old age, their deaths occurring one day apart. The mother was a true Christian
in  every sense of the word, and was a devoted member of the Primitive Baptist
Church. The father was a  Democrat in his political views, and was highly
esteemed and respected by all who knew him.