Biography of Elisha Kirby, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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John H. McCrary is widely-known and respected throughout Eastern Arkansas not
only as a successful farmer and livestock dealer, but also for his intelligent
raising of Tennessee Walking Horses on his well-cultivated 460 acre farm four
miles north of Forrest City on Hwy. 1. The son of Miles R. and Victoria (Kirby)
McCrary, he was the fifth of twelve children. His parental grandfather, M. M.
McCrary, as a young man moved to Forrest City from Alabama with his bride and
engaged in farming two miles west of Forrest City where he reared his family. A
former county treasurer, he also served in the Confederate Army in the Civil
war, riding home the same faithful horse on which he had left four years before.
His maternal grandparents, Elisha and Tecessa Kirby, moved to Forrest City with
their family from Mississippi in 1871 and started farming near the city.


SOURCE:
HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning

Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher
-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas