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JAMES B. LEDBETTER

Goodspeed Biographical History Memoirs of Western Arkansas. Printed 1889

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JAMES B. LEDBETTER

James B. LEDBETTER, one of the honest and industrious farmers of Union
Township and a native of Marshall Co., Tennessee, was born in 1829, being 
The third of a family of five sons and five daughters. His education was 
Limited to the country schools prior to the age of thirteen, and at 
seventeen began for himself as a farm laborer, but in 1847 took unto 
himself a wife in the person  of Miss Cynthia A. Bain, a daughter of Andrew 
and Margaret Bain. She was born in Bedford County, Tennessee, and died in 
Lawrence County, Missouri, in 1855 and was the mother of four children, of 
whom two daughters survive: Margaret, the wife of F. Scroggin, and Edna J., 
now Mrs. Joseph Bell. Mr. Ledbetter married his present wife in 1859. She 
was formerly Caroline Thompson, who was born in Bedford County, Tennessee. 
Her parents were William and Lavina Thompson, the former who died in Bedford 
County, Tennessee, during the war, and the latter in Missouri after the war. 
By this latter union Mr. Ledbetter is the father of six children, five living: 
Mary, wife of Horace Brown; Eliza, wife of Thomas Love; James B.; Charles S.; 
And Terry M. In 1854 Mr. Ledbetter removed to Lawrence County, Missouri, and 
In 1861, to Benton County, Arkansas; in 1862 to Pope County, Arkansas, and in
1865 came to Conway County, Arkansas, where he has since lived, and since
1868, a resident of his present farm, five miles southwest of Springfield,
containing 160 acres, with about 80 acres under cultivation. In 1864 he was
conscripted into the Confederate Army, and served as Orderly Sergeant in
Shelby's command, and with General Price on his raid through Missouri. He
was reared a Whig, but since the war, has affiliated with the Democratic
party. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church.  Martin S.
Ledbetter, the father of James B., was born in South Carolina in 1805. He
married Eliza McKinely and removed to Middle Tennessee, but afterwards
returned to South Carolina, thence to Alabama and again to Tennessee. 
Mrs. Ledbetter died in Memphis, and he in Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. 
Ledbetter was a farmer and a blacksmith, and was a son of Dr. William 
Ledbetter, who was probably South Carolinian by birth but died in 
Mississippi about 1841, a physician, merchant, and farmer, and was of 
English descent. James B. McKinley, the maternal grandfather of our 
subject, died in Georgia, a farmer by occupation.

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