PEEK, AMANDA BELLE - Benton County, Arkansas | AMANDA BELLE PEEK - Arkansas Gravestone Photos

Amanda Belle PEEK

Decatur (Decatur) Cemetery
Benton County,
Arkansas

James
CAPTAIN
Company H 2 North Carolina Cavalry
Civil War Confederate
May 9, 1829 - May 26, 1906

Source: Confederate Veteran buried in Benton County, Arkansas by William w Degge & Dorothy Ruth Miller

*Obituary
Gentry Journal-Advance
Friday, June 8, 1906

PEEK, J.M. - J.M. Peek was born in Madison County, N.C. May 9, 1829. He was converted and joined the Bull Creek Missionary Baptist Church Jan. 7, 1860. He moved to Benton Co., Ark in 1868 and joined the Bloomfield Baptist church, afterwards moving his membership to Decatur, where it remained at the time of his death. He was married to Amanda Belle Heaslet March 3, 1870. To this union four children, two sons and two daughters, were born and are living except the oldest daughter. He has three children from a former marriage, one son and two daughters, the son living in Washington, the daughters in N.C. He died May 26 at 6:45 p.m. and was buried at Decatur Sunday the 27th in the presence of one of the largest gatherings ever assembled at this cemetery. He had borne with patience for more than a year the most excruciating pain of rheumatism, always looking to the time when he would be relieved from the pangs and sorrows of this life, happy at all times in the realization that a crown awaited him on the other shore. In his death the country has lost a loyal and true patriot, his wife a loving and devoted husband, his children a kind and considerate father, his church a devoted and steadfast member, his Masonic lodge a charitable and faithful worker, his neighbors an agreeable and accommodating friend. It is sad to give up Uncle Jim, as he was familiarly called, but such was the will of our maker. Written by a friend and relative. W.M.H.

Amanda
July 27, 1849 - September 13, 1928

*Obituary
Benton County Record & Democrat & Sun
Thursday, September 20, 1928

PEEK, Amanda Belle HEASLETT - Mrs. Belle Peek, one of the oldest native born residents of Benton County, died at the home of her son, Mack Peek, on the old Peek homestead west of Decatur Thursday, September 13 at the age of 79 years. Funeral services were held Friday with interment in the Decatur cemetery. She is survived by two sons, Mack and Sam Peek, and one daughter, Mrs. W.S. McGaugh, all of Decatur, and a sister, Mrs. Sarah Gholson of Mason Valley. About a year ago last winter Mrs. Peek fell and dislocated her hip and has been an invalid ever since. Mrs. Peek was born on the old Heaslet homestead north of Decatur in 1849 and practically her entire life has been spent in this community.

Married March 3, 1870

Contributed on 12/22/09 by judyfrog
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Submitted: 12/22/09 • Approved: 9/9/17 • Last Updated: 9/6/23 • R272003-G272002-S3

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