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R. C. McBryde. There is no one point in the history of any State or county that possesses so much interest for the general reader as a sketch of the lives of the great men who make it their home. Therefore, because of this fact, a history of Lincoln County would be incomplete without the name and life of him whose name appears above. Mr. McBryde has for some time followed farming as a profession, achieving in this line of industry marked success, and the wealth that accompanies same. He resides in Owen Township, Palmyra post-office, in this county, and is prominent among the gentlemen who have given to the State of Arkansas her enviable reputation for wealth and splendid estates. His birth occurred in Tippah County, Miss., near Union, on February 4, 1852, and he is a son of Alexander and Sarah McBryde, natives of one of the Carolinas. There they were married, and afterward moved to Alabama, where they lived several years. From that State they moved to Mississippi, where R. C. was born. They were of Irish descent, the great-grandparents of the subject of this sketch came from Ireland, settling in the United States about the time of the Revolutionary War. The family emigrated to Arkansas in 1860, locating near Helena, on the day of the presidential election, and later settled on the place where R. C. McBryde resides at the present time, and where the father died in 1862. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, the mother living until 1885, at which time she passed away to her final resting-place, a devout and lovely Christian woman, and a member of the same church to which her husband belonged. They were the parents of three sons and four daughters, who lived to be grown, and six of whom are living at the present writing. The eldest daughter is dead; Martha A., died in 1880. Those living are E. P., H. P., Amelia, Catherina, Euphemia and R. C. R. C. McBryde, the subject of this sketch, is the youngest and attained his majority after coming to Arkansas on the place where he has since lived. Two of the sons served in the late war: E. P. and H. P., the latter being in nineteen regular battles without receiving any personal injury whatever, but lost his voice for about six months, though from what cause it was never known. At the time of his father’s death, R. C. McBryde took charge of the home place. On December 13, 1877, he married Miss Amanda Newton, a native of Arkansas, being born in what is now Lincoln County, but what was at that time known as Drew County. She was a daughter of C. W. Newton, who came from his native State of Mississippi to Arkansas in 1858, settling in Drew County. Both of her parents are dead, and she alone of all the family is now living. The other sister, Julia, died while quite a young lady about the year 1880. To Mr. and Mrs. McBryde have been born four children, viz.: Charles, Clinton, Cub and Julia. Both of the parents are members of the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. McBryde belongs to the A. F. & A. M. No. 256, of Star City, and also to the Agricultural Wheel. He is a strong Democrat in politics. He owns a valuable estate of 400 acres that is well cultivated. In short, to sum up the whole truth briefly, he ranks among the most popular, successful and cultured gentle men in the county of Lincoln and the State of Arkansas.