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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Calhoun County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of 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.

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H. M. Lucus, a prominent farmer in Jackson Township, was born in Tennessee in 1832, the eldest of a family of ten children born to Ansil and Frances (Johnson) Lucus, natives of Tennessee and North Carolina, respectively. His father lived in Tennessee, where he was engaged in farming until his death, which occurred in 1845; his widow died in 1875. Our subject was reared on a farm, attending the common schools, until he reached the age of nineteen years, and then began farming for himself. He purchased a farm and then sold it, and in 1851, came to Arkansas, settling in Jackson Township, Calhoun County, where he rented for a few years, and then entered the farm on which he now resides, consisting of 153 acres, forty acres of which he has cleared. He has a good orchard, fair buildings, and does general farming, raising cotton and corn, the former of which yields one-half bale to the acre, and the latter fifteen bushels. In 1857 Mr. Lucus was united to Miss Josephine Russell, a native of Alabama. She died in 1871, leaving five children, viz.: Mary Frances, Martha Ann, Elizabeth (who died in 1884, at the age of twenty years), Malinda (wife of George Williams, residing in Jackson Township), and William Monroe. In 1873 Mr. Lucus was again united in marriage, this time to Miss Elizabeth Harcrow, daughter of Harris Harcrow, an old settler in this county. To this union were born three children, viz.: Janetta, Sallie, and Myra (who died in 1885). Mrs. Lucus died in 1885, and in 1890 Mr. Lucus married Mrs. Josephine Webb. Mr. Lucus is an advocate of schools and churches, being a consistent member of the Canaan Baptist Church, and is active in all meritorious enterprises. In 1862 he enlisted in Company B, Twenty-fourth Arkansas Regiment, and was in the battles at Arkansas Post. He was with Price on his celebrated Missouri raid, and participated in all the battles of that campaign. At the close of the war he returned to Arkansas, and engaged in farming.

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