My Genealogy Hound

Calvin Fish has been a resident of this county for thirty-nine years, and during this time he has proved himself to be a very desirable citizen, as well as an honest and upright man. His birth occurred in Henry County, Ga., December 31, 1830, and he is the son of Russell and Eliza E. (Curry) Fish, natives of North Carolina and Georgia, respectively. When a young man, the father went to Georgia, and was there married, and shortly after the birth of his son Calvin, moved to Mississippi, thence in 1851 to Arkansas. They chose a location in Lafayette County, and here the father passed the rest of his life. He died in January, 1865, in the Indian Territory, whither he had gone to visit a sick brother. Mrs. Fish was the mother of fourteen children, eight of whom survive: Calvin, Robert M. (a farmer of Montague County, Tex.), Elizabeth (now Mrs. Range, of this township), William (a farmer of Pope County, Ark.), Sarah (now Mrs. Curley, of this township), Elizabeth (now Mrs. Graham, of Prescott), Daniel (a farmer of Montague County, Tex.), and Duncan (also of Montague County, Tex.) Calvin Fish accompanied his parents to Arkansas in 1851, and the same year entered a quarter section of land and commenced farming for himself. In 1861 he enlisted in Hudspeth’s battalion of light artillery, which was formed in Tennessee, and consisted of Tennessee and Arkansas companies. His principal battles were Madrid, Shiloh (at this battle Mr. Fish was twice wounded, and still bears the scars), Murfreesboro, the engagements on the Atlanta campaign, Jonesboro, Nashville, Macon and others. Returning home in May, 1865, he resumed his farming operations, which he has very successfully conducted ever since. He has been three times married: First, on March 25, 1866, to Miss Nancy Fleming, a native of Georgia, who died leaving one son, Andrew (now a farmer of Buckner, Ark.). Afterward Mr. Fish formed a second matrimonial alliance, this time with Miss Caroline Wallace, of this county, who died December 27, —, having borne four children, three of whom are still living: Nathan (a farmer of this township), James A. and Robert A. He married his third and present wife on March 2, 1879, she being Mrs. Jane Tipton (nee Goree), widow of Joseph Tipton, of this county, and a daughter of James and Eliza (Lucas) Goree, and they have had a family of five children, all boys, four of whom are still living: Tolly (deceased), Ollie D., Jesse, Goree D., and Virees L. Both Mr. and Mrs. Fish are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, and have the confidence and esteem of all who know them. The former belongs to the County Wheel, and in politics is a stanch Democrat. He owns a fine farm of 171 acres, and in addition to this, rents about fifty acres, mostly under cultivation, which he tills, and he is classed among the substantial and well-to-do agriculturists of this county.