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James A. High, who has witnessed the complete development of Lonoke County, and has borne an active share in its improvement and development, was born in Mississippi in 1844, his parents being Lodesick and Nancy A. (Wynne) High, natives of North Carolina. They removed to Mississippi in their young days, and were afterward married, Mrs. High dying in that State, shortly after which Mr. High and children came to Arkansas and located in this county in 1860. Here Mr. High died in 1885, at the age of eighty-five. He was a member of the Baptist Church, and was the father of nine children, four of whom are still living. James A., the subject of this sketch, enlisted, in 1861, in the Twenty-fifth Arkansas Infantry, in which he served throughout the war. He was in the battles of Nashville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Peach Tree Creek and a number of others, and received a shot through the left leg at the battle of Nashville, which caused his confinement in the hospital at Columbia, Tenn., where he was captured and taken prisoner. Then taking the oath of allegiance he was released and returned home, entering into farming. Mr. High was married to Miss Emma Deal, a native of Mississippi, and they are the parents of seven children, all living: Edgar, Walter, Wade, Espy, Horace Samuel and Clarence. Mr. and Mrs. High are members of the Missionary Baptist Church. The former is a prominent Democrat of his county. He always takes an interest in schools and churches and other enterprises of a worthy nature.