Millard H. Purifoy, 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

Millard H. Purifoy, a planter residing on Section 24, is a native of Ouachita County, born on July 30, 1855, a son of Henry M. and Elizabeth J.
(Hanley) Purifoy, the former of whom was born in Will County, Alabama, January 12, 1818, a farmer by occupation, which received his attention
all his life. During the late war he was a member of a company of infantry under captain Logan, and was taken prisoner at Fort Donalson. After
being held in captivity for eighteen months, he was exchanged and then came home owing to ill health. He had held the office of justice of the
peace for several years in his native State, after which he emigrated from Alabama to Georgia,and from there to Florida, thence to Arkansas in
1844, settling in Ouachita County on a woodland farm, on which he erected a log cabin and began improving. He was a very successful farmer
up to the late war, being the owner of some 1,200 acres of land, but at the close of the war sold it all to pay his debts. He died on September 13,
1882, having been first married to Miss Anna Allbritten, of Alabama, by whom he became the father of three sons and one daughter: Henry H.,
John G., and Nancy C. (widow of A. N. Powell) being the only ones now living. After the death of the mother of these children, in 1845, he
married Miss Hanley, and to them thirteen children were born, nine of whom survive: Marshal W., Millard H., Buckner W., James L., Ed L., Jesse
B., Joseph S., Pharr R., Robert E (living) and Louis F., Walter P. Elizabeth and one other (deceased). The mother of these children died in 1889,
having been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Millard H. Purifoy has resided in this county the greater portion of his life, and on
August 16, 1877,w as united in marriage to Miss Minnie Gulley, of Nevada County, Arkansas, by whom he became the father of six children:
Marshal L., Richard G., Samuel L., Ramsey J., Roland L. and Keturah E. (who is deceased). Mrs. Purifoy was born in Louisiana, June 2, 1860. Mr.
Purifoy is the owner of 320 acres of the fine farming land, and has seventy-five acres under the plow, and on this farm is a good steam
cotton-gin and grist mill, the former having a capacity of from thirteen to fifteen bales per day. His principal crop is cotton. He is a Democrat in
his political views, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church..