Biography of Bert C. Pouncey Jr, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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Bert C. Pouncey Jr. -business man, banker, landowner, civic leader, and marine
expert of Hughes, Ark. stands prominent in Eastern Arkansas. He owns Atoka
Transportation Co. operating in river and canal towing, the 1500 acre Atoka
Farm, located eight miles northeast of Hughes, and chairman of the Planters
National Bank of Hughes, partner in the Kelly Oil Co., active in the Hughes
School board and the Boy Scouts of America. He served as Commodore of the U. S.
Coast Guard Auxiliary, as well as being a Lieutenant in the Army Engineer
Reserve from 1931-1936, and in the Temporary Reserves in 1944. He was born in
Helena, the son of Bert C. and Laura (Ladd) Pouncey Sr., formerly of Hughes, now
of Memphis, his father being in Hughes in 1917. His paternal grandparents were
J. F. and MargueriteEmma Pouncey of Dale County, Alabama; J. F. Pouncey haveing
been a veteran of Johnson's Georgia Campaign during the Civil War. His maternal
grandparents, W. E. and Marguerite Ladd, were of Richmond, Va. and Louisiana
respectively. After graduating from Central High School in Memphis, Bert Jr.
received a B. S. Degree in Commerical Engineering from Carnegie Institute of
Technology in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1932. From Jan. 1933 to Sep. 1935 he owned and
operated the Milan Theatre Company in Milan, Tenn. In 1936, he moved to Hughes
to assume the Atoka Farm management, started by his father 19 years before. On
June 18, 1932, he married Miss Dorothy Elizabeth Holmes, daughter of John W. and
Julia (Roach) Holmes of Hughes, and to this union has been born two sons. Mr.
Pouncey Jr. belongs to the Episcopalian-Holy Cross Parish, Hughes Rotary Club,
American Waterways Operators, and St. Francis Co. Farm Bureau.


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

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