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Below is a sample of a family biography
included in the Biographical and Historical
Memoirs of Desha County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed in 1890.
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.
Walter C. Halley is a retired planter now engaged in the hotel
and grocery business at Pine Bluff, Ark. Although born in Marion County,
Georgia, in 1837, he has been a resident of Arkansas since he was eleven years
of age, and has always been identified with the interests of the community in
which he has resided. He is one of four surviving members, the others being
Martha A. (widow of J. A. Mason), Mary F. (wife of Benjamin McGehee), and
Samuel F., of a family of eighteen children born to Dr. Samuel and Sarah A.
(Lumpkin) Halley, both of whom were born in Georgia, the former in January,
1801, and the latter about 1804. The father was an eminent medical
practitioner, and followed this calling for thirty or thirty-five years. He
was captain of a company in one of the early Indian wars, was a Master Mason,
and after coming to Arkansas in 1848, identified himself with the interests of
Bradley County, and was an earnest advocate of and a stockholder in the
railroad from Eunice to Warren, making the first speech in favor of its being
built. He first removed from his native State of Georgia to Alabama, and then
came to Arkansas, where he was in the active practice of his profession at the
time of his death, November 13, 1862. Walter C. Halley was married January 28,
1869, to Miss Addie Vining, a daughter of Thomas Vining, of Desha County, she
being born in the State of Mississippi, March 31, 1846, and died February 19,
1870, being in full communion with the Baptist Church at the time of her
death. Mr. Halley's present wife, formerly Miss Eddie T. Jones, was born in
Arkansas County, Ark., in 1868, their union taking place in 1886. She is a
daughter of William and Maggie Jones, of Arkansas County, Ark., and is a
worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. In 1862 Mr. Halley
enlisted as a private Company B, infantry service, and was on duty until 1865,
when he was captured by the Federals and put in prison at Memphis, Tenn. Later
he was paroled and came home and took up his former engagement of farming. He
also followed saw-milling until 1871, when he gave up this work to engage in
the grocery business at Chicot City, Ark., at which he has been doing well. He
owns 200 acres of good farming land, with 130 acres under cultivation, and
being a man of enterprise and push everything has prospered well to which he
has turned his attention. He is a Democrat, and holds the position of
worshipful master in the Arkansas City Lodge No. 296, of the A. F. & A. M. He
and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
This family biography is one of 80 biographies
included in the Biographical and
Historical Memoirs of Desha County, Arkansas published
in 1890. For the complete description, click here:
Desha County Arkansas History, Genealogy
and Maps
View
additional Desha County, Arkansas biographies here:
Desha County, Arkansas Genealogy
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