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Submitted: 3/4/14 • Approved: 3/9/14 • Last Updated: 3/12/14 • R986423-G0-S3
January 30, 1848 - April 23, 1891
*Biographical Sketch
James P. Plott, farmer, Holly Bend, Ark. Mr. Plott owes his nativity to Tennessee, his birth occurring in Giles County in 1848, and is now following a calling that has for ages received individual efforts from many worthy individuals, and one that always furnishes sustenance to the ready worker.
His parents, George and Margaret (Wilkerson) Plott, were born in Cabarrus County, N.C. They removed from that State to Tennessee, where they resided for several years and then, in 1872, they came to Pope County, Ark., settling in Holly Bend.
There the father died in 1889, at the ripe old age of eighty-two years. His widow still survives and is living with her son, William P., who besides our subject, is the only child she has living in Arkansas.
William P. was married in 1888, to Miss Lulu Walraven, daughter of William Walraven, of Pope County. James P. Plott resides with his brother, William P., and still enjoys single blessedness.
He is the owner of 315 acres of land, 105 acres under cultivation, in the Holly Bend of Arkansas River, and this is one of the finest tracts of land on the river.
Mr. Plott came to Arkansas when twenty-four years of age, and in 1873 he went to Western Texas, where he was engaged in stock business for three years. He also ran a saloon in Sipe Springs, Comanche County, of that State for two years.
He then returned to Pope County, Ark., where he is to-day one of the most successful and prosperous farmers.
*See Cemetery Notes
*Source: Cemeteries of Pope County, Arkansas
By: J.B. Lemley
*Source: Goodspeed's Biographical & Historical
Memoirs of Western Arkansas, 1891
Pope County
Contributed on 3/4/14 by stacieford38
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