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J. C. Parrish, M. D., New Lewisville, Steel Township, Lafayette County, Ark., is one of the leading members of the medical fraternity of Lafayette County. His paternal grandfather, Jordan Parrish, a native of North Carolina, came to Tennessee in 1833, and here was born the father of our subject in 1834. In 1854 he came to Greene County, Ark., and here he resided until his death, which occurred near where Boydsville now stands, some years since the war. Both his paternal and maternal grandfathers were agriculturists, and very successful in their calling. Jesse J. Parrish, the father of our subject, was also a farmer, and lived and died on the place where he was born. He was married to Miss Catherine Harris, daughter of G. L. Harris, who was reared in Maury County, Tenn., and resides in McNairy County, Tenn. The fruits of this union have been nine children, the subject of this sketch being the eldest, viz.: J. C. Parish (the subject of this sketch, born in Tennessee, December 31, 1859), Corda C. (was killed in an old family feud in 1888), Jordan (resides in McNairy County, Tenn., and is engaged in the mercantile business), Lucy, Cora (is the wife of Oscar Haily, a farmer of the same county), Willie, Nathaniel, Gilliem and Jesse. The father was very successful as a farmer, and was able to give all his children a good education. He passed away peacefully in 1887. He belonged to the Masonic fraternity, and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His widow resides on the farm on which she has lived ever since her marriage. The subject of this sketch attended, between the gathering and planting of crops, the common schools of his county, until he was sixteen years of age. His father then sent him to a boarding school in Purdy, where he passed some two years, and then went to Henderson, entering the office of Jerry and Joe Crook, in which he remained for one year. He then taught school for a short time. On September 27, 1879, he entered the Iowa State Medical University, at Keokuk, Iowa, where he remained for one year, at the end of which time he returned to Purdy and commenced the practice of medicine with Dr. Asa Bell, remaining here but a short time, in 1881 coming to Nevada County, Ark., locating near Rosston, where he practiced medicine until 1890, in the meantime graduating at the Louisville School of Medicine (June 15, 1888). January 1, 1890, he came to this place and entered upon the practice of his profession in connection with Drs. Bright and Chisholm, and now has an immense and lucrative practice, extending throughout the entire county. Miss Leonora Snider, daughter of Carey and Elizabeth Snider, joined her fortunes with his, and they were married in Nevada County, in 1881. Mr. Snider, an early settler of Arkansas, and a prosperous planter, was killed in the late war. To Mr. and Mrs. Parish have been born three children, viz.: Jessie L., Effie and Otis M.