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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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T. C. Lynch, the popular member of the firm of Brunton & Lynch of Bellville, was born in Yell County in 1858, his father being James H. Lynch, of Tennessee, who married Martha Evans of North Carolina, she bearing him a family of ten children, T. C. being the seventh child. Coming to Arkansas in 1852, and locating in Yell County, they bought and broke land for a homestead, where the father died in 1875, and the mother is still living. They were communicants of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Our subject was early reared as a farmer, and on attaining his majority still followed this calling, buying a farm in 1887, which he sold in 1889, and purchased a place in town, where he established his present business. In 1882 he married Miss Julia Bird of Georgia, who bore him five children: Oscar Wallace, Martha Emma, Malinda Altha, Alice Laura and an infant son unnamed.

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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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