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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Calhoun 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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Abram A. Nettles, a resident of Calhoun County, Hampton post office, Champagnolle Township, was born in Lowndes County, Ala., January 19, 1830, a son of John H. and Elizabeth (Crimm) Nettles, natives of Fairfield District, S. C. They moved from South Carolina to Alabama, in which latter State they died. Our subject was reared and schooled in Alabama, received a fair education at the common country schools, and commenced doing for himself at the age of twenty years, when he came to Arkansas and settled in Union County, where he resided until 1856. He then came to Calhoun County, where he settled permanently, and has since resided on his farm, consisting of 100 acres of land, fifty acres of which he has under cultivation. In 1851 he was married to Miss L. C. McElroy, daughter of James A. and Sarah (Ponsomby) McElrow, natives of Alabama. To this union were born four children, viz.: Sarah E. (who died in 1854), Martha L. (died in 1855), Walter S. (died in 1857) and Iva N. (at home). Mr. Nettles enlisted as a private in 1861, in the Confederate army, in Company K, of an Arkansas regiment, and served until the close of the war. He was engaged on forced marches to battles of Elkhorn, Poison Springs (Ark.), Mansfield (La.), Jenkins’ Ferry (Ark.), and was also engaged in numerous skirmishes. Mr. Nettles affiliates with the Democratic party, but does not take an active interest in politics. He was elected and served one term as magistrate. Mr. Nettles is a member of the Masonic fraternity, which he joined in 1856, also of the Farmers’ Union, which he joined in 1887. Mr. and Mrs. Nettles and child are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He has been very successful in his farming, is a good neighbor, and is also a liberal supporter of all laudable public enterprises.

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This family biography is one of 67 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Calhoun County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Calhoun County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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