My Genealogy Hound

J. B. McDuffie has been located in the State of Arkansas since 1842, and has proved to be a valuable citizen to the community, especially in the direction of farming, being now the owner of 280 acres of fine farming land which will yield 800 pounds of cotton and twenty bushels of corn to the acre. He was born in Georgia, in 1817, to Duncan McDuffie and wife, the former being a soldier in the War of 1812 and also in the Creek War in 1836. He was a pioneer magistrate, a member of the Baptist Church, and died in 1850. J. B. McDuffie obtained a fair education in his youth, and in transacting the business affairs of life he has become a well-informed, as he has always been, and intelligent man. He was first married October 22, 1842, to Miss Bethiah Busby, but she died at the end of four years, having borne two children that died in infancy. His second marriage was to Elizabeth Young, who passed from life in 1855, having given birth to five children: John R., William Young (deceased), Sarah Ann (deceased), George (deceased), and another child that died in infancy. His third marriage took place in 1857, his wife being Miss Fannie Lows, who bore him eight children: B. F. (married and a resident of Ashley County), Mary R. (deceased wife of D. M. John), Bethiah (wife of Jeff. Goodsher), R. L. (who married Miss Fannie Smith), James O. (deceased), Abner F. (married to Julia Bartlett), Annie and Lulu. During the late Civil War Mr. McDuffie was a member of a reserve corps, and since the close of that war he has been a Democrat in his political views. He has filled the office of justice of the peace, and is now in a position to enjoy the results of his former active career.