MILTON, WILLIAM CARROLL - Franklin County, Arkansas | WILLIAM CARROLL MILTON - Arkansas Gravestone Photos

William Carroll MILTON

Duncan Memorial Cemetery
Franklin County,
Arkansas

William
Dec 14,1826-June 11,1920
From the Goodspeed History of Northwest Arkansas: "WILLIAM C. MILTON, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Lauderdale County, Alabama, Dec. 14, 1826, and is a son of Elisha and Nancy (Morphis) Milton, natives of North Carolina. In 1836 the family moved to Arkansas and located in Franklin Co., where the father entered land and improved the farm upon which our subject now lives. Here a family of six sons and one daughter was reared. Of these, four sons and the daughter are now living. One of the sons is now a resident of Texas. All six brothers joined the Confederate army, five enlisting from Franklin Co., and two met their deaths while in service. William C. grew to manhood upon the home farm, and lived with his father until the death of the latter. In 1853 he married Eliza, daughter of D.L. Bourland, now deceased, but formerly of Tennessee. Mrs. Milton was born in Tennessee and is the mother of six children: Wallace (in business at Charleston, Ark., married Elizabeth Richardson in 1881, the daughter of E. Richardson, deceased), Carroll (in Fort Jeffers, deceased, now resides in Mulberry), Walker, Dennie (married R.L. Jeffers in 1885 and Minnie. In 1862 Mr. Milton enlisted in the Confederate army, and served in Col. Thompson's regiment until the close of the war. He fought at Fayetteville and Fort Smith, and several skirmishes. He was disbanded in Texas, whither his family had gone during the war. In September 1865, he returned to Franklin County and resumed his farming. He now owns eighty acres of good land under cultivation, and has in all 200 acres. His barns and out-buildings are well constructed, and he lives in a good one-story house. Mr. Milton is a Master Mason of the Ozark Lodge, and his wife is a Presbyterian."

Eliza
July 9,1834-July 17,1919
Daughter of Dubert Lee and Mary Thomas Bourland
Photo by Frances Allen Titsworth

Contributed on 4/18/14 by bill060
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Submitted: 4/18/14 • Approved: 4/20/14 • Last Updated: 4/23/14 • R995593-G995593-S3

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