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Submitted: 1/30/13 • Approved: 6/1/18 • Last Updated: 6/27/23 • R824052-G824052-S3
William
Company G 19 Arkansas Infantry
Civil War Confederate
February 29,1836 - March 30,1926
Served 1862 - 1865 - wounded - applied for veteran pension #15145 August 8,1912 in Bradley County - source - "Arkansas Confederate Veterans & Widows Pension Applications" by Frances T Ingmire
Martha
September 23,1845 - May 12, 1924
William Boneparte Fike, farmer and cotton-ginner. It will be seen, from a perusal of this sketch, that Mr. Fike is one of the well respected and honored residents of Bradley County, and although his educational advantages in youth were confined to the common schools, he possesses a vigorous mind and is one of the well-read men of the county. Born in Perry County, Ala., February 29, 1836, he is one of ten children born to the union of Terryll Fike and Elizabeth Gordon, whose marriage was consummated about the year 1833. They removed to Union County, Ark., in 1844, and here the father's death occurred in 1872, at the age of sixty-four years. William B. Fike was the second of their family and in early youth learned the occupation of farming from his father, learning also lessons of industry and habits of economy, which have since been of great benefit to him. In 1881 he settled on a farm in Clay Township, Bradley County, and here has an excellent farm of 300 acres, 160 being in a desirable state of cultivation, and on which is erected good buildings of all kinds and a fine steam cotton gin, the latter brings him in a handsome annual income. In 1862 he enlisted in Company A. Nineteenth Arkansas Infantry, as second lieutenant, and filled this position with credit until the close of the war, participating in the following engagements: first battle of Farmington, second battle of Iuka, Corinth, Hatchie Bridge, Champion Hill, being wounded in the knee in the last named engagement, which laid him up for two months. After recovering he took part in the siege of Vicksburg, but was here captured and afterward exchanged. His command was reorganized in Arkansas, and he was in the engagements at Jenkins' Ferry and Saline River, which were the last important engagements in which he took part. Mr. Fike is a stanch Democrat in politics, and for four years has held the office of magistrate, and has been school director four terms. In 1865 he married Miss Martha A. Stephens, a native of Union County, Ark., and by her has had a family of three sons: William T. (who graduated from a college at Bowling Green, Ky., and is at present a bookkeeper for a leading business house in Little Rock, Ark.), Theodore E. (who is the principal salesman in an extensive general store in Little Rock), and Robert P. (Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas - Goodspeed Publishing Company - Chicago, Nashville and St. Louis - 1890.
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