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Submitted: 8/28/11 • Approved: 8/11/17 • Last Updated: 8/14/17 • R580648-G0-S3
September 18, 1837 - October 24, 1890
John R. Boreing is a general merchant, United States mail contractor, and a dealer and shipper of live stock at Magnolia, Ark., and by his superior management and genuine business ability and efficiency he has placed himself in an independent position and has done much to enhance the reputation the county has gained as a commercial point. Like many of the wide-awake citizens of this section he was born in Tennessee, his birth occurring in Washington County in 1837. He is a son of Murray and Sarah (Ruble) Boreing, the former being a grandson of Abner Boreing, who was one of the very first settlers of Tennessee and Washington COunty. Murray Boreing was reared in Tennessee, but after reaching manhood went to Kentucky and in this State the subject of this sketch was reared and educated. At the age of twenty years, he went to Pike's Peak, when gold was first discovered there, but after remaining there one season he returned east as far as St. Joseph, Mo., and there joined the Confederate service, becoming a member of Boyd's battalion of State troops, which afterward becamse a part of the regular Confederate service, Mr. Boreing being enrolled in Company B, Col. Stean's, afterward Moore's regiment, the division commander being Gen. Price. He served until the last of the war, and was in the engagements at Shiloh, Farmington and Corinth. After the last-named battle he was with Gen. Parsons in the Trans-Mississippi Department, and was at Helena, Pea Ridge, Prairie Grove, Mansfield, Jenkin's Ferry, besides numerous skirmishes. He surrendered with his command at Shreveport, La., his regimental flag being the last to be given up at the close of the war. He came to Columbia County, Ark., and after hiring some help engaged in farming, an occupation which he followed until1879, when he moved to Magnolia and engaged in the stock business with W. B. McNeill, their connection lasting for four years. His estimable wife was formerly Miss M. E. Gladney, their union taking place on December 12, 1866. Mrs. Boreing is a niece of ex-Gov. Trousdale of Tennessee. She and Mr. Boreing are the parents of six children: Charles M. (a book-keeper for his father), E. C. (a salesman in the store), Mollie G., Maud I., John T. and Overton D. The parents of these children are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and Mr. Boreing is amember of the A. F. & A. M., Marysville Lodge. (Biographical and Historical Memoirs of South Arkansas - Goodspeed Publishing Company - 1890)
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