Biography of Joseph Bryant Shannon, 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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The first of these articles are on persons from other counties that
have Sebastian County ties.   Later, you will find only Sebastian 
County families.

History of Washington County

Joseph Bryant Shannon, county clerk of Washington County, Ark., was born in
Crawford County, of the same  State, November 20, 1851, and is the son of
Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Bryant) Shannon. The father was a native  of Virginia,
of the Old Dominion, and a farmer by occupation. He came with his father, John
Shannon, to  Arkansas when a young man (1827), and settled in Sebastian County,
of that State. He was married in Crawford  County to Miss Elizabeth Bryant, a
native of Crawford County, Ark., and the daughter of Joseph Bryant, who  was
also a native of Sebastian County, and who settled in Crawford County, Ark., in
1832. Jeremiah Shannon  died when his son. Joseph B., was a small boy, and the
mother afterward married Rev. Thomas Dodson, who  made a home in Madison
County, Ark., where Joseph B. grew to manhood. The subject of this sketch was
reared on a farm, and when a young man engaged in merchandising as clerk in a
store at Wesley, Ark. He  afterward embarked in the grocery business at Wesley
for himself, but sold out and bought land in Washington  County, Ark., in 1879.
He then engaged in trading and dealing in live stock for about five years, and
in 1884 he  was elected clerk of the county, and was re-elected in 1886 with an
increased majority. After moving to this  county he married Miss Minerva
Adaline Garrett, daughter of James and Charity (Kimmins) Garrett, and a  native
of Tennessee. To them were born six children: Dora Gertrude, Maggie H.
(deceased), James Gunter, Martha Hasselteen, Tommie Juanita and an infant named
Mary. Mr. Shannon is a member of the K. of H. and  K. of P. societies, and a
member of the Baptist Church. During the Grange movement in Wesley he took an
active part, and was a charter member of Wesley Grange.