ST FRANCIS CO, AR - D. A. TYER - Bio

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SOURCE:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern 
Arkansas. Chicago:Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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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 [p.386] married to Elizabeth Sparks,
who was also of Tennessee origin. Mr. and 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 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 for 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.