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| "LEDBETTER, Harvey C., is a native of Tennessee, and was born April 19, 1816. His father, George LEDBETTER, was born in Georgia, and his mother, Susannah (CHESSER) LEDBETTER, was born in Virginia. In an early day they moved to Tennessee, and there married and lived until 1849, the father engaging in carpentering and farming. They then came to War Eagle, and lived with our subject until their respective deaths in 1863 and 1881, aged eighty and ninety -three, respectively. Harvey C. was reared on a farm on Rocky River, in Tennessee, and there lived until 1836. He then accompanied his brother-in-law, H. ELSEY, to War Eagle, where he entered land, and where he now owns a fine farm of 330 acres, well under cultivation. He is a successful farmer, and is engaged in stock raising to some extent. April 30, 1837, he married Sarah H. McELHANEY, daughter of William McELHANEY, who settled in Arkansas in 1830. To this marriage three children were born: Emeline (deceased), Laura A. and George W. Mrs. LEDBETTER died September 18, 1844, and January 8, 1846, he married Mary A. BOWEN, daughter of John BOWEN, an early settler and the first county judge of this county, in whose honor Bowen Township was named. Mrs. LEDBETTER was born December 29, 1827, and is the mother of thirteen children: Charles M. (deceased), Sarah H., William R., Julia A. (deceased), Alfred M. (deceased), Mary J., James A. (deceased), John H. (deceased), Tennessee E., Milder A., Martha E., Marion W. and Caroline N." (Goodspeeds History of NW AR...) |
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