CROSS CO, AR - A. J. MCELROY - Bio

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Submitted by: Jason Presley <daclyde@usa.net>
        Date: 25 Nov 2003
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SOURCE:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern 
Arkansas. Chicago:Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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     A. J. McElroy, served four years in the Confederate service during the
late war as a member of Company B, Mcrae's Regiment, and participated in
the battles of Helena, Red River, Prairie Grove and a number of other battles
and skirmishes, remaining in the field of duty until the surrender in 1865.
Leaving home at age twenty-six he engaged in farming on 160 acres of land
which he had bought in this county, and where he still resides.  He now has
upward of 100 acres under cultivation, with good buildings and good stock.
Mr. McElroy was born in Georgia in 1833, as the son of John and Mary 
(Stephenson) McElroy, natives of South Carolina.  Soon after the latter's
marriage, he came to Georgia, remaining until 1848, when he moved to Arkansas,
settling in this county, where he entered 480 acres of land.  Here he lived
until his death in 1866, at the age of sixty-eight years.  He was four times
married.  His first wife, Miss Shy, became the mother of one child, now
deceased.  By his second wife (Miss Belk) he had five children, only one of
whom survives: J. C. (of this county).  After her death, Mr. McElroy was
married to Mary Stephenson, who died in 1859 (continues on page 370)