Prof. W. A. Garner, Ouachita County, AR

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SOURCE: Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
Contributed by Carol Smith.
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Ouachita County, Arkansas - from Goodspeed's History of Arkansas

Prof. W. A. Garner, druggist, Stephens, Arkansas. Among the most important as well as popular drug stores in Stephens is that of Prof. W. A.
Garner, which contains every requisite and convenience in this line of business and has the reputation of being one of the best and most
reliable in town. Prof. garner was born in Darlington, South Carolina, on February 20, 1833, and is the son of Charles W. Garner, and grandson of
William Garner. The great-grandfather, John Garner, was a native of North Carolina, and was a solider in the Revolutionary War under Gen.
Sumter. C. W. Garner was born in South Carolina on May 28, 1810, and lives at Stephens, and is one of the best preserved octogenarians in
Arkansas. He was married in 832 to Miss Winifred Parrott, a native of North Carolina. She was a daughter of Ben J. Parrott, whose father, John
Parrott, served through the Revolutionary War under Col. John Washington. After finishing his collegiate education at Trinity College, North
Carolina, in 1856, the Professor was elected principal of the Summerton Institute, South Carolina, which he conducted two years, during which
time he was happily married to Miss Mary McCallum, of Bishopville, Sumter District, South Carolina, who also was a cultured accomplished
teacher, and shoulder to shoulder with her husband has grown gray in the training of now less than 6,000 of the youths of South Carolina,
Tennessee and Arkansas. Her reputation as a teacher is no less distinguished in Arkansas than her distinguished ancestors, the McCallums,
Henegans and Harllees, as politicians and statesmen of South Carolina. In 1860 Prof. Garner as elected president of Hickory Plain Institute,
Prairie County, Arkansas. In 1862 he left his school in charge of his accomplished wife, shouldered his musket and served in the Twenty-fifth
Arkansas Regiment, Confederate army till the battle of Murfreesboro, in which he was severely wounded. At the surrender he was acting as
post quartermaster at Mount Lebanon, Louisiana. Having been paroled by Gen. Camby at Shreveport, Louisiana, he returned to his home and
took charge of his school which Mrs. Garner had successfully kept up during the entire war. Prof. Garner has devoted his time since the war in
the education of the youths of Arkansas until the last year. Prof.and Mrs. Garner have five children living: Ida (the eldest, the widow of the late
Rev. J. J. Jenkins of the Little Rock Conference, lives in Stephens), Leila (wife of Prof. R. M. Hammock, of Mount Holly, Arkansas), Emma, Annie
and Jennie (who are conducting a school at Stephen, Arkansas) These accomplished young ladies are laying the foundation for an institution
of a high grade of learning.