Page 120 - Jefferson County AR 1889 History (Goodspeed)

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JEFFEHSON COUNTY.
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I.level, and he is to-day one of Jefferson County's present house May 12, 1845, to Miss Elizabeth H.

most prosperous men as well as enjoying a flatter- Taylor, danghter of LewisTaylor, one of the early

1 ing popularity with its citizens. He now owns settlnrs of Arkansas, who came from Virginia in !
about 7,000 acres of fertile land and has placed : 1838, and located part of this place. Elizabeth

I I2,400 acres under cultivation, his plantations being was born in 1820 and died in 1847; they had one

among the largest and most productive in the State : son, unw deceased.

as dso the most beantifnl. Col. William has few / George S. Willis, M. D. I n the galaxy of

!equals as far as enterprise is concerned, and was prominent men that honor Jefferson County with

, one of the projectors of the railroad from Pine their citizenship, Dr. Urillis stands foremost among
/ Bluff to Swan Lake and Bankhead. i the medical profession. He was born in Holly

I E. JV. Williams, a bachelor of Leland, and j Springs, Miss., on April 17, 1854, and is a son of

11 one of the largest and most snccessful planters of Dr. P. A. and Emily (Jackson) Willis, of Charles-

' the coonty, as he is one of the deservedly popular , ton. S. C., and Sussex Connty, Va., respectively.
1 residents. is a native of Tennessee, having been The parents were married in Virginia, and soon

born in Illemphis, in 1850. His father, Gen. Jo. ! after their union moved to Holly Springs, Miss..

seph R. TTilliams, came originally from Peters- I where the fatherpraoticedbisprofessionwith great

/burg. Va., but as a citizen of Tennessne became a success. He was a graduate of one of the l a d i n g

I Iprominent man and a lawyer of ability and influ- medical institntions in Georgia, and well known in 1
ence, his extensive wealth adding largely to a just the South. He was a soldier in theilfexioan War,
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I 1reputation. He was a memberof thestate militia and during the rebellion wan a member of the
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] of Tennessee before t,he war, and belonged to the ' famons JeB Davis Rifles. After the latter event

1Vemphis B l u r , of which he was captain. He he embarked in the drug business and combined

I L e d large inieresta in Memphis, to which he de- ; with it an o& practice. i n Masonic circles the

( !voted most of his time, not practicing the legal elder Willis was very prominent and had taken
, Iprofession in later life. He was once B member of some of the highest degrees in t,heorder. I n poli.

1 the I. 0. 0. I?. His death occurred in 1881at the tics he was a Democrat and an inflnential man in
age of sixty years. His wife, formerly Miss Jane that party. Both parents were members of the

T. Wilkins, of Kentucky nativity, is still living in Episcopal Church. The motber'e death occurred

Memphis, in fair health, at the age of sixty years. when George was only three years old, and after

Mr. and Mrs. Williams were the parents of nine . her decease the father was again married, his sec-

children, five of whom are living. and of these our ond wife being Miss Sarah E. Rntherford. His

snbjact WRS the eldest. I n 1869 Mr. Killiams i death occnrred in 1879, a t the age of sixty-two

came to Arkansas, locating at his present residence, 1 years. Two children were born to his first mar-

which was then in Arkansas County. He received riage, Edwin S. and George S., the former a

n liberal edncation, partly in Toronto, Canada, and prominent druggist at Holly Springs, Miss., who

at \\'a~hin&~lnnd Lne University, Virginia, be- died from yellow fever in the year 1878, when that

con~ingwell informed as a student, and in after terrible scourge was raging throughout the South.

1 life a man of wide repntation through his exteosive George 8. was educated in Holly Springs and a t

!reading. He now has npward of 22,000 acres of Oxford. Miss.. and entered his father's drng estab-

Iland under his contro1,isproprietor of a general snp- ' lishment after ending his school days. He tbere

/ply store for thehands that work on tbe place, and learned the b n s i o u and studied medicine a t the

! I. has one of the largest gin houses on the river Mr. same time up to 1814, when he attended the Mis.

/ /Williams is a genial. whole-sonledman, thoroughly sonri Medical College a t St. Louis, from which he
Iliked by all his aoqnintances l'he place on which ' graduaw. He next entered the wholesale honse

1 Ihe lives is one of the oldest settled farms in the of A. Wnngler & Co., druggists in St. Louis, as

)county, his father liaving been fiwt married in the traveling salesman, and from there went t o Louis-
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