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Below is a sample of a family biography
included in the Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Polk County, Arkansas published by
Southern Publishing Company in 1891.
These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing
ancestors or filling in the details in a family tree. Family biographies often
include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.
Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place
of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including
maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if
married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service,
church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often
ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical
record.
Malcomb McAllister, farmer, Eagle Hill, Ark. Mr. McAllister was
born in Blount County, Tenn., on April 3, 1831, and is a son of James B. and
Margaret (McRae) McAllister, natives of Tennessee and North Carolina,
respectively. The parents were married in the former State, and when Mal comb
was eighteen months old they moved to Carroll County, Ga., where they passed
the remainder of their days. The father was a farmer all his life and in 1836
and 1837 was a soldier, assisting in removing the Indians west of the
Mississippi. He died in 1860, at the age of about sixty years, and his widow
followed him to the grave in 1870 at about the same age. Her death occurred in
Carroll County, Ga. Both were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South,
and he was an exhorter and class leader for many years, also superintendent of
the Sunday-school. As a farmer he was practical, industrious and successful.
In politics he was a Democrat. Of the ten children born to his marriage,
Malcomb was the fifth in order of birth. He was educated in Georgia, and when
twenty-one years of age commenced for him self as a tiller of the soil. This
he has since continued. He then read medicine from 1857 to 1859 under Dr. J.
G. W. Brown, and in 1859 and 1860 he attended the medical college at Macon,
Ga. Later he commenced practicing in Benton County, Ala., and in 1861 returned
to Georgia. He enlisted in the Seventh Georgia Cavalry, Confederate Army, and
remained with the same all through the war, serving principally in Virginia,
and being at all times in the thickest of the fight. He was in quite a number
of battles, and in numerous skirmishes and raids from Cape Fear to James
River. He was on the raid when his command captured 2,700 head of cattle at
Petersburg, on the James River, from the rear of the Union Army. He was one of
the forty detailed to go home after horses, and while there the army
surrendered. After the war Mr. McAllister went to Hunt County, Tex., and after
residing there one year moved to Polk County, Ark., locating on the head of
Mountain Fork. There he remained for nearly two years, and then moved to Scott
County, Boles, where he remained for another year. He subsequently moved back
to this county and located on the head of Mountain Fork in 1875. He there has
160 acres of land, and has about 40 acres under cultivation. He abandoned the
practice of medicine about ten years ago, and now gives his attention strictly
to agricultural pursuits. In 1884 he was elected justice of the peace, and
re-elected in 1890. When about thirteen years of age he joined the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, and has been a great church worker ever since. He was
married on May 5, 1851, to Miss Nancy J. Chance of Georgia, and she died at
this place on December 4, 1884. To this union six children have been born:
Martha H. (wife of James Watson, a farmer of this county), J. D. (now in
Texas), Mollie (wife of William McBride now, in Texas), Sarah Alice (wife of
John Coffman, a farmer of this county), Willie (at home), and Patty (also at
home). Mr. McAllister was married again on November 8, 1885, to Mrs. Sarah C.
Tyson of Rush County, Tex. She is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South. Mr. McAllister is a Democrat in politics.
This family biography is one of 31 biographies
included in the Biographical and
Historical Memoirs of Polk County, Arkansas published
in 1891. For the complete description, click here:
Polk County Arkansas History, Genealogy and
Maps
View additional Polk County, Arkansas
biographies here:
Polk County, Arkansas Genealogy
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