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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Nevada 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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Joseph C. Walthall, the subject of the present sketch, was born in Clark County, Ark., in the year 1844. His parents were William P. and Mary C. Walthall, the father a native of Virginia, and born in that State in 1798, and the mother, of Georgia, where she was born in 1801. They were married in the last-named State, and are the parents of nine children, of whom there are only three now living. The family moved from Georgia to Arkansas in 1840, settling in Clark County, where the father died in 1860 and the mother in 1875. Mr. Joseph C. Walthall was married in 1868 to Miss Mary C. Greene, daughter of Weston and Susan (Bolton) G. Greene, and born in Ouachita County in 1849. They are the parents of three children— one son and two daughters—of whom only one daughter is living, viz.: Ida J. Mr. Walthall was in the Civil War, in Company C, under Capt. J. R. White, and enlisted in 1861, and was in most of the prominent battles. He was captured at Long View, Ark., in 1863, and taken to Rock Island, Ill., where he remained as a prisoner for eleven months. At the close of the war Mr. Walthall returned home, devoting his attention exclusively to agriculture, is a member of the Masonic order and the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he is a Republican.

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This family biography is one of 96 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Nevada County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Nevada County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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