Biography of D A Tyer, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 22 Jan 2009
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D. A. Tyer was born in St. Francis County, Ark., shortly after his parents came
to this state. Curtis Tyer, the father, was a blacksmith by trade and a native
of Tennessee, who removed here in 1840, settling in St. Francis County, where he
was married to Elizabeth Sparks, who was also of Tennessee origin. Mr. & Mrs.
Tyer were the parents of eight children, four of whom are living: D. A., Mattie
(wife of R. Harrell, of this township), T. C., (also a native of this township)
and Sallie (wife of W. H. Newsom, a resident of Wynne). Mr. Tyer died in 1866,
and his wife, who was a member of the Baptist Church, in 1873. D. A., the
subject of this sketch, was born in 1846, and was reared on a farm, being
educated in the subscription schools of the county. At the age of twenty-one, he
commenced farming himself, and also ran a blacksmith shop, having learned that
trade in his father's shop. In 1864, he joined the army, in defense of the
Southern cause, and was in Price's raid through Missouri, in which he served
until the close of the war. Mr. Tyer was married in 1866 to Miss Mary F.
Lindley. Their union has been blessed by eight children: Ida (wife of T, N.
Holt), Cora, Willie, Robert, Allen, Sallie, Stephen, and Grove M. In 1868 Mr.
Tyer bought forty acres of land, to which he has since added another eighty, now
having about sixty acres under cultivation, with a good dwelling: he also raises
some stock. A public spirited man he is a liberal donator to all enterprises for
the good of the community in which he lives. 

Goodspeed Memoirs and Biograhies-1890