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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Bradley 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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John Louis Hairston is a native-born resident of Bradley County, Ark., and here from his earliest boyhood his time and attention has been given to agricultural pursuits. Although still a young man he owns a good farm of 160 acres, and by industry and good management has succeeded in putting fifty acres in an exceptionally fine state of cultivation, and on his land has erected a steam cotton-gin which brings him in a paying yearly income. He is the eldest child born to William L. and Elizabeth Hairston, who were natives of Montgomery, Ala., and moved to Arkansas in the year 1840, and settled in Bradley County, where they reared their family, but his opportunities for acquiring an education in his youth were limited, and being thrown on his own resources for obtaining a livelihood, he took up that occupation with which he had always been familiar, and has succeeded as above stated. He is a Democrat in politics, and since 1888 has served his township as justice of the peace. Being courteous and agreeable in his intercourse with his fellowmen, and an enterprising and honorable man of business, he is universally esteemed. Elmira Hickman, the eldest child born to W. J. and Jane Hickman, who removed from Alabama to Arkansas about 1845, became his wife on October 8, 1871, and the following-named children have been born to them: Elizabeth C, William L., Josias, Hettie J., and Elona E. Mr. and Mrs. Hairston are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, both having joined in 1879, and a daughter is also connected with that church.

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This family biography is one of 64 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Bradley County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Bradley County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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