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Hon. Warren P. McElroy, farmer, Ben Lomond, Ark. There is probably no man within the limits of Sevier County who is deserving of more credit for the interest he has taken in its behalf than Mr. McElroy, and the brief facts here presented indicate to more than an ordinary degree the relations which he has borne to the county’s development. He was born in Lawrence County, Miss., in 1834, and is the son of Wiley and Mary (Coulter) McElroy. The father was a native of Georgia, was married in Mississippi, and in 1835 came to Sevier County, where Mrs. McElroy died in 1846. The father died in Hempstead County in 1856. He was a tiller of the soil. The paternal grandfather, Giles McElroy, was of Scotch descent, was in the War of 1812, and died probably in Mississippi. The maternal grandfather, John Coulter, came from Mississippi to what is now Howard County, at an early day, and there passed his last days. Hon. Warren P. McElroy, the second of three children, was trained in his youth to farm labor, and received his education in the common schools. He led to the altar Miss Mary Kinsworthy, on October 2, 1856, and six children were the result of this union, two sons and one daughter now living. Mrs. McElroy was born in Hempstead County, Ark., and was the daughter of Ezekial and Brunetta Kinsworthy. Mr. Kinsworthy was born in Missouri in 1805, and at an early day came to Southwest Arkansas, where he became a very prominent man, representing Hempstead County in the Legislature at one time. He died in Sevier County. Since the war Mr. McElroy has resided in his present neighborhood, and is the owner of 200 acres of good land. He has closely applied himself to agricultural pursuits, and with what success may be inferred from a glance at his present place. July, 1861, he joined H. K. Brown’s company of Second Arkansas Infantry, and served about four months as lieutenant. He then resigned and joined Jones’ company, Nineteenth Arkansas Infantry, for three months, and after being discharged he joined the artillery of Blocker’s battalion, in which he served until the close of the war. He fought at Oak Hill, Helena and Jenkins’ Ferry, and surrendered at Alexandria, La., after about four years of hard service in Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana. He then returned to farm life. He is an active member of the Wheel, is one of the lecturers of that order in Sevier County, and was at one time president of the Sevier County Wheel. In 1888 he was elected to represent the Twenty-second District, including Little River, Sevier, Polk and Howard Counties, in the State Senate, and served with credit on the committee on agriculture, roads and highways, etc. Since 1859 he has been a Mason, was once junior warden, but is now non-affiliating. He is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. His wife and one son and daughter are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.