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Below is a family biography included in The History of Carroll County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  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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Edward Mitchell, an enterprising merchant and farmer of Carrollton, Ark., is a native of the county, born on April 21, 1842. He is a son of Joel D. Mitchell, a native of Virginia, and Elvira Dibble, a native of Tennessee. Joel D. Mitchell was taken when a child to Tennessee, and was there reared and married. He removed from the latter State to Missouri, and came to Arkansas about 1834, settling in Carroll County, where he remained until his death in February, 1872. He served as justice of the peace for one or more terms. His wife died in 1844. Edward Mitchell grew to mature years on his father’s farm, and in July, 1861, enlisted in the Confederate army, joining Col. Dave Walker’s regiment of infantry. After serving in this a short time he was discharged, and in the spring of 1862 re-enlisted in the Twenty-seventh Arkansas Infantry, and served until the close of the war. Among other engagements he participated in the battle of Mansfield, La., and was at Little Rock and Ft. Smith when those cities were evacuated. At the battle of Mansfield he received a flesh wound, from which he was disabled for two months. After his parole at Shreveport, La., he returned home and remained until spring, when he went ot Missouri and remained six months, returning to Carroll County in the fall of 1867. Thence he went to Kansas and remained one year, when he went to Colorado and remained, engaged in farming and stock dealing, until the fall of 1879, when he sold out, and returned to Arkansas. Soon after he engaged in the mercantile business at Carrollton, and has continued very successfully. He carries a large stock of general merchandise, has an established trade and a good reputation for good goods and fair dealing. In 1878 he was married in Carrollton, to Altie Johnson, a native of Georgia. She died in December of the next year, leaving one daughter Altie Stella. In Boone County, Ark., in August, 1882, Mr. Mitchell was united in marriage with Louisa Mitchell, a daughter of R. J. Mitchell of Boone County. To them have been born two children: Joel and William Robert. Mrs. Mitchell is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, south. Mr. Mitchell is a Knight of Templar in the Masonic order. Besides his mercantile interests he owns two good farms, one near Carrollton, and the other near Harrison, Ark.

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This family biography is one of 82 biographies included in The History of Carroll County, Arkansas published in 1889.  For the complete description, click here: Carroll County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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