HENDERSON CO. TX -  BIOGRAPHY J. M. Pickens
 
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J. M. Pickens
The above is one of our most substantial citizens and successful 
farmers. We have been furnished very little information concerning 
his birthplace, family history etc. He was born in Alabama in 1828. 
Came to Henderson county in 1857 and settled upon the place 
where he now resides. HI is a man of sterling integrity, persistent 
industry and of deep religious convictions. He has raised a large 
family of children, all of whom are and were good men and women 
and are all doing well.
Two daughters, Mrs. Wood and Mrs. Henry, are wives of leading 
merchants of Athens. One son, Davis, is one of our best citizens 
and, like his father, a very successful farmer. One son, Albert, who 
died last fall, was a young man of great promise and ability. We 
have no particulars at hand concerning all the members of his 
family. Mr. Pickens' live would be a fruitful topic for a book showing 
that intelligent farming is the most independent as well as the most 
profitable business. A country ought to be judged by the success of 
such man as he, since a failure to come up to what he has accomplished 
is chargeable in every instance to the man and not to the county. And 
judging Henderson county by such men as he, it is one of the best 
counties in East Texas.
We expect in the near future to write up fully a lot o our farmers as the 
best and most correct methods of advertising our county, and when 
we do this we will give Mr. Pickens a fuller notice.