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Submitted: 11/12/12 • Approved: 6/2/18 • Last Updated: 6/27/23 • R781218-G781218-S3
James - June 17, 1836 - May 26, 1896
Catherine - Nov 1, 1848 - May 27, 1947
James T. Whiteside, farmer, Warren, Ark. Originally from York County, S. C., where his birth occurred on June 17, 1836, Mr. Whiteside is now one of the first-class agriculturists of Bradley County. His parents, James and Hettie (Ferris) Whiteside, were also natives of York County, S. C., and the father emigrated to Arkansas in 1853, coming through in wagons, and being six weeks on the road. He located where James Burnett now resides, purchasing and entering 160 acres of land, with but few improvements, and here the parents died, the father in 1878, and the mother in 1862. In their family were eight children, three now living: Ann J. (wife of W. H. Waters), Sarah E. (wife of Altamon Tempest), and James T. The latter passed his boyhood days in South Carolina, received his education there, and was but seventeen years of age when he came to Arkansas. In 1861 he enlisted in Company C, Fifth Arkansas Regiment, and served until the close of the war. He was captured at Franklin, Tenn., on December 5, 1864, and taken to Camp Douglas, at Chicago, where he was confined for six months, or until after the surrender. He participated in the battlers of Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, the Atlanta campaign, and numerous others. After his release from prison he returned home and resumed farming, which vocation he has since followed. He owns 320 acres of land, with about 100 acres under cultivation, and deals some in stock, raising hogs, cattle and sheep. He is also quite a horticulturist and raises some very fine fruit, having a number of acres in orchard. He was married in 1867 to Miss Catherine P. Singer, a native of Bradley County, Ark., and she bore her husband six children: Minnie (wife of Hunter Berry), Flora, Nellie (wife of Thomas St. John), Mary E., Hettie and Irene. Mr. Whiteside is an enterprising citizen, and takes much interest in advancing the interests of the county. (Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas - Goodspeed Publishing Company - Chicago, Nashville and St. Louis - 1890)
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