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Carey N. Vise, farmer and ex-sheriff.
One of the neatest and best kept farms in Hickman
Township is that owned and operated by Mr. Vise, containing 600 acres, about
200 of which are under cultivation, well improved, the rest being
timberland. On this land is an excellent young orchard, and in connection
with his farming operations Mr. Vise is also engaged in stock raising. He
was born in Georgia, the eldest of six children born to John S. and Esther
(Vise) Vise, both of whom were born in the
Palmetto State, the
mother's death occurring there in 1859. Mr. Vise afterward married again,
taking for his second consort Miss Eliza M. Mason, by whom he became the
father of one child.
He served in the Confederate Army during
the Rebellion, being in Capt. Robert Boyce's company of artillery, and
taking part in the battles of Manassas,
Antietam, Rappahannock
Station and Jackson, Miss. After the war he followed farming in Georgia
until 1874, when he moved to Arkansas, his son, Carey N., having previously
come here, and settled on a farm two miles from Waldron, on which place he
died in 1883. Carey M. Vise was born in 1846, and was educated in the
schools of South Carolina. He entered the Confederate Army at the age of
sixteen years, being in a company of light artillery, commanded by Capt.
Boyce and T. S. Jeter, and was in the same engagements in which his father
participated. He was captured at Asheville,
N.C., but the war closed
a few days later and he was released. In the winter of 1867 he came to
Arkansas, soon after purchasing 120 acres of land, fifteen miles west of
Waldron, on Jones Creek. He was married in December of the same year to Miss
Sarah A. Young, of South Carolina, and on the tract which he first purchased
he lived for a long time, although he purchased other land and made numerous
valuable improvements.
Since 1882, however,
he has made the town of Waldron his home, where he has a pleasant and
comfortable residence. He has always been interested in politics, and for
the last eighteen years has held office. He was assessor six years, justice
of the peace, four years, and in 1882 he was elected sheriff of the county,
a position he held by reelection until 1890. His children are as follows:
Willie, Beatrice, John,
Melissa, Charlie, Sadie and Benjamin.
The Goodspeed
Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas
Written 1890 & First
Published 1891
Scott
County
Pages 398 - 433
Please Note: This bio
states that Carey was born in Georgia which is incorrect. The biographer must have confused
"The Palmetto State" with Palmetto, GA. South Carolina is known as the Palmetto state.
Transcribed By: Lisa Vise Ricks From A Copy Of The Original Document
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