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Submitted: 7/14/11 • Approved: 11/19/12 • Last Updated: 9/15/18 • R562432-G0-S3
1847 - 1915
Eli Cornish is another prominent and successful farmer of Calhoun County, Summerville post-office, Jackson Township, and was born in Drew County, Ark., on December 26, 1847. He was the fourth child born to Calvin and Elizabeth Cornish, who moved to Arkansas from Alabama, settling in Drew County, where our subject was raised and schooled. As he was growing up in war times, he received a very limited education, and began doing for himself at the age of fourteen years. His principal occupation has been farming, but he is both sawing and ginning for the public. n He owns a fine farm of 160 acres, with about seventy-five acres under an excellent state of cultivation. he erected his mill and gin in 1888, and has successfully run both since. Mr. Cornish was married in 1872, selectiung as his companion for life, Miss Sarah J. Benton, a native of Arkansas, and has six children living, two being dead, viz: Edward, Joseph, Calvin, Ruthie L., Erner, Eli, Effie and Robert. Joseph and Erner are dead. Mr. Cornish served in the late war, enlisting in the Confederate army in an independent company, under Capt. Robert Kidd, in 1862, and continued to serve as private until the close of the war, engaging in several skirmishes, but in no active battles. Mr. Cornish is a member of the Jackson Wheel (one of Calhoun County's subordinate wheels). He votes with the Democratic party, but does not take an active interest in politics. He is one of the substantial farmers of this section, and is a livberal subscriber to all worthy public enterprises. (Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas, 1890. Goodspeed Publishing Company)
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