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John W. Vickers, planter of Hempstead County, was born in Georgia, just sixty-three years ago, and has been a resident of Arkansas thirty-one years, during which time he has accumulated a comfortable competency. He owns 160 acres of good land, all improved, with good buildings, and under a high state of cultivation, which he tills, his principal crop being cotton and corn. His property has all been amassed by his own efforts. His parents, Grisem and Sarah E. (Davis) Vickers, had a family of seven children—two sons and five daughters—but the subject of this sketch is the only one now surviving His father was in the War of 1812, and his death occurred in 1835, followed in 1847, by that of his widow. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. John W. Vickers came to Arkansas in 1859, locating in this county, where he has ever since made his home. On August 24 of the following year he was joined in the bonds of matrimony to Miss Malaria Tyree, a daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Burham) Tyree, who was born in Hempstead County, Ark., in 1841, and their married life has been blessed in the birth of thirteen children, ten of whom still survive, viz.: Sarah E. (wife of William Galloway), Martha A. (wife of Thomas Adams), Daniel T., Alice, Verteria, John, Lucy, Mary, Carl and Conway. When the late war broke out in 1861, Mr. Vickers enlisted in the infantry, under Capt. W. H. Prescott, and served his cause faithfully until 1865, when he was discharged, on account of sickness. In politics Mr. Vickers is a stanch Democrat, and both he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He is one of the well-to-do farmers of this section, and is a liberal contributor to all worthy public enterprises, taking an especial interest in the upbuilding of schools and churches.