Biography of R W Peevey, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 14 Nov 2008
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Transcribed by Lisa Hamilton from 
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SOURCE:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern 
Arkansas. Chicago:Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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COL. ROBINSON'S REGIMENT - CSA - CIVIL - MAJOR - PEEVEY - Robert W. [1 8 1827 -
8-22-1906] - Loughridge Cemetery

Hon. R. W. Peevey, farmer, stock raiser, and one of the prominent old settlers
of St. Francis County, owes his nativity to Alabama, being a son of W. H. and J.
A. (Childers) Peevey, originally from Georgia and Tennessee, respectively, and
of Irish descent. The parental grandparents of our subject came to this country
shortly after the Revolutionary War. R. W. Peevey was born January 8, 1827, and
was the fourth son in a family of seven children. He spent his boyhood [p. 488]
days on his father's farm, and before his twentieth birthday was married to Miss
Nellie A. Collier, who died in 1850, leaving three children, two still living:
James J. and Emma J. (wife of W. H. Fogg), both in this county. In 1862 Mr.
Peevey enlisted in the Confederate army and served in Col. Robinson's regiment,
being elected captain of his company at starting out, and in May, 1863, he was
promoted to major. He participated in the battles of Vicksburg, Baton Rouge,
Corinth and a number of others. After the war he engaged in farming in Madison
County, Ala., until 1873, when he came to Arkansas and located in St. Francis
County, where he bought his present farm. In October, 1859, he married Miss
Louisa Curry. She died in August, 1878, having borne seven children, and of
these four survive: Thomas Elbert, Robert H., William H. and Luther B. Mr.
Peevey married his third wife, Mary J. Dew, in January, 1880. He is a prominent
Democrat, and has ably served his county in the State legislature, to which he
was elected in 1876. He also held the office of justice of the peace for several
terms, and is still filling that position. A member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, he is also connected with the Masonic fraternity.