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E. A. Hanna, who is one of the prominent and enterprising agriculturists of Dallas Township, Calhoun County, was born in Heard County, Ga., in 1841. His parents, John and Julia Ann (McClenden) Hanna, natives of Tennessee and Georgia, respectively, reared a family of nine children, of whom our subject was the second. His father went to Georgia in early life, and engaged in farming. In 1841 he moved to Arkansas; he came by land, bringing a herd of cattle, and settled in Jackson County, where he lived for three years. He then moved to Bradley County, and lived there for one year, and then came to Ouachita County (now Jackson Township. Calhoun County), and entered about 200 acres of land, on which he made quite extensive improvements, and soon cleared 100 acres. He was a very enterprising farmer for those times He was thrown from a horse and killed on the last day of 1865; his widow still lives on the old homestead. Our subject was reared on the farm, attending the common schools of that county, and remained at home until the outbreak of the war, when, in October, 1861, he enlisted in Company K, which was soon attached to the Fourth Arkansas Regiment. He was engaged in the battle of Pea Ridge, and then, soon after, the regiment was sent east of the Mississippi River. He was in eighteen general engagements, from Pea Ridge to the end of the Georgia campaign; he surrendered near Charlotte, N. C., in January, 1865, and immediately after returned home and engaged in farming. In 1867 he bought a farm of 125 acres, partly improved, and January 1, 1868, he married Miss Elizabeth More, daughter of John U. More, an early settler of Bradley County, who came here from Georgia in 1848. Mr. Hanna lived on this farm until 1873, when he sold out and bought his present place, a farm of 200 acres, in Dallas Township, seventy-five acres now under cultivation, and does general farming, raising a variety of crops. He has a good farm, and raises about one-half bale of cotton to the acre. He is an earnest advocate of school matters, and has served several terms as director. He belongs to Dallas Wheel 1227. The family are members of the Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church. South. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Hanna were born nine children, all living, viz.: William Arnold, Julia Price, John F., Sarah E., Mary L., Laura, Martha, Frances and Beatrice.