My Genealogy Hound

William Stuckey, liquor dealer, Hope, Ark. Mr. Stuckey, saloonist and proprietor of the Palace Saloon at Hope, was born in Mississippi in 1859, and is the son of D. N. and Jane (Gilbert) Stuckey. The father came to this State in 1879, settling in Hempstead County, where he bought an unimproved farm, and is now one of the most extensive farmers of the county. His sympathies were with the Southern States during the late war, and he enlisted in the Confederate army and participated in a number of the most prominent engagements. He was wounded in the foot at Corinth, Miss., was captured and sent North. After the war he returned home and resided in Mississippi until coming to this State. He and wife are the parents of eight children, six of whom still survive: D. N., Robert, Sue (wife of William Houston), Mollie (wife of William Allen), James, and Samuel. Mr. and Mrs. Stuckey are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Stuckey is also a member of the Masonic fraternity, Hope Lodge. William Stuckey was educated in the common schools of Mississippi, and at the age of fifteen years left home and came to this State, where he worked as a farm hand for two years. He then returned to Mississippi, attended school for a year, and then, in company with his father, returned and entered the employ of C. D. Payne of Hope. After this he was in the employ of different parties as bartender, and in 1889 commenced business in his present place. Since then he lost his stock by fire, but he opened up again shortly afterward, and is now doing a splendid business, having one of the handsomest saloons to be found in Southern Arkansas. He was married in 1885 to Miss Fannie Bowden, a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. In his political views Mr. Stuckey is a Democrat.