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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Yell County, Arkansas published by Southern Publishing Company in 1891.  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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James M. McKenzie was born in York County, S. C, November 26, 1851, and is the youngest son of David and Rebecca (Nolen) McKenzie, originally of South Carolina and North Carolina, the father born in 1818 and the mother in 1821. David McKenzie was a farmer and emigrated from South to North Carolina at an early day, thence to Arkansas in 1857, settling on land in Yell County, where he died in 1879, a member in good standing in the Old School Presbyterian Church. His widow surviving and living with her daughter, Mrs. Cain, of this county, is also a member of this church. When twenty-two years old our subject bought a farm and began life for himself on his own land, and is now the owner of 160 acres of fine fertile land, with eighty-five acres in a good state of cultivation, and in 1889 erected a substantial two-story residence on his farm. In 1873 he married Miss Lucretia Scarlett, who was born in Pope County in 1846, and is a daughter of William and Jane Scarlett, and the result of this marriage is a family of six children: Uriah, Edgar, Leroy, Lelar, Ernest and Verna. Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie, like their parents, are faithful members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is a progressive farmer and carpenter, and takes an interest in public improvements, contributing liberally to all charitable and educational institutions. Politically he votes the Democratic ticket.

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This family biography is one of 124 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Yell County, Arkansas published in 1891.  For the complete description, click here: Yell County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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