Rev. Eli W. Pharr, 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

Rev. Eli W. Pharr, one of the honored and respected old residents of Ouachita County, Arkansas, should be accorded a worthy place in this
volume, for he has been associated with the agricultural interests of the county since 1849. He was born in Abbeville District, South Carolina,
February 25, 1819, being a son of Samuel T. and Mary W. (Guffin) Pharr, the father of whom was born in South Carolina, in 1792, having been a
tiller of the soil, and a minister of the gospel by occupation. He and wife became the parents of four children, two of whom are living at the
present time: Eli W. and Mary A. (wife of William G. Casey, a resident of Alabama). At an early day Samuel T. Pharr removed from his native
State to Georgia, and from there to Arkansas, in 1849, settling in the northern part of the State, his wife dying here in 1880, and earnest member
of the Presbyterian Church. Eli W. Pharr first started in life for himself at the age of twenty-one years as a farmer and was married in 1840, to
Miss Elizabeth Lowe, a native of South Carolina, by whom he became the father of seven children, four of whom are now living: John W. (a
farmer and merchant of this county), Mary L. (wife of L. R. Hollingsworth, a resident of Hughes Springs, Texas), Edward I. (a farmer and
merchant of Columbia County, Arkansas), and Joseph S. (a farmer of this county). The mother of these children died in 1856, a consistent
member of the Presbyterian Church, and in 1857 Mr. Pharr espoused Mrs. Parthenia Seehorn, a widow of Alex Seehorn. She was born in
Mississippi, in 1820, and is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Pharr received an excellent education in his youth, and for some time was
an attendant of a college at Graffenburg, Alabama, which was under the management of P. M. Sheppard. He also graduated from a medical
college in 1854, after which he entered actively upon the practice of that profession, continuing from 1855 to 1856, in Alabama, when he
removed to Arkansas, and from that time until 1873, was a practitioner in Union County. He was licensed to preach the gospel in 1864, being a
minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and has been actively engaged in the saving of souls ever since. He is well to do as far as
worldly goods is concerned, and is now the owner of about 400 acres of good farming land, with about 200 acres improved. His principal crop is
cotton and corn, and he is a partner in a fine steam cotton-gin and grist mill. He belongs in the Masonic fraternity, and in his professional as
well as social relations, he is esteemed and respected by many.