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Submitted: 1/17/22 • Approved: 1/27/22 • Last Updated: 1/30/22 • R1413399-G1413397-S3
David
August 30, 1855 - December 21, 1925
SOURCE: Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago and Nashville, 1891.
Logan County
DAVID T. McVAY, planter and miller, Paris, Ark. Mr. McVay,
one of the independent sons of toil, and a successful miller of
Short Mountain Township, was born in Mississippi on August 30,
1853, and came to this State with his parents when a small boy.
He was married in Logan County in 1876, to Miss Harriet Streete,
who was originally from Georgia, her birth occurring in that State
on June 15, 1857, and the daughter of William Streete, also a
native of Georgia. To Mr. and Mrs. McVay were born five children -
two sons and three daughters: George, James, Eller O., Flora and
Martha. Mr. McVay has a fine farm of 338 acres, and has 90 acres
of this under cultivation, his principal crops being corn and cotton. He has a good frame house, substantial and comfortable
outbuildings, and has an orchard of one acre. He has a good steam
cotton-gin and saw-mill combined, and the capacity of the gin is
sixteen bales per day, and can cut 3,000 feet of lumber per day.
Last year Mr. McVay ginned 497 bales of cotton, and the prospect
this year is considered as good. Mrs. McVay is a member of the
Christian Church. Mr. McVay's parents, George and Nicey (Leeten)
McVay, were natives, respectively, of Alabama and Mississippi.
They were married in the last named State, and six children were
born to this union, two only now living, one besides our subject,
Thomas. The father emigrated from Mississippi to Arkansas in 1857,
settled in McClain's bottom, where he entered and improved land.
He died in this county in 1863. The mother had died in 1860. She
was a member of the Christian Church.
Harriet
June 15, 1858 - April 21, 1926
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