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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Columbia County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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T. W. Yarbrough is an agriculturist of Magnolia Township, Columbia County, Ark., but is a native Tennessean, his birth occurring in the western part of that State in 1841. His parents, James E. and Nancy (Atchison) Yarbrough, were born in Alabama and Illinois respectively, the former being a farmer and an emigrant to this State in 1858, taking up his abode in Columbia County. Here he reared his children, whose names are as follows: T. W., Mary W. (wife of Adolphus W. Bachus, of Ouachita County), Lucy F. (wife of J. T. Hicks, of Columbia County), Susan T. (wife of W. T. Douglass, of this county), Martha A. (the deceased wife of James Leach), Amanda J. (widow of J. E. Boyd), and Ella (wife of H. Vaughan, of Texas). The mother of these children died in December, 1887. T. W. Yarbrough received the advantages of the subscription schools in his youth, but it was not until the war broke out that he determined to leave the place where he had passed so many important years of his life in labor upon the farm and in acquiring an education. He then joined Company D, Fifteenth Arkansas Infantry, commanded by Col. Ben Johnson, and for two years served in the Army of the Tennessee, taking part in the battles of Island No. 10, where he was taken prisoner and sent to Camp Butler, Ill. At the end of six months he was exchanged at Vicksburg and after his company was reorganized he was sent to Port Hudson, where he was again captured, paroled and afterward returned home. After the reorganization of his company at Washington, Hempstead County, he served on the west side of the river until May, 1865, then surrendered at Marshall, Tex., and returned home, having taken part in the battle of Jenkins’ Ferry. Upon his return home he engaged in farming in a small way, and tilled his father’s land until 1866, when he bought the place on which he now lives, consisting of 400 acres, and of this he now has 100 acres in good farming condition, on which is a commodious and substantial residence, also good buildings of other kinds. He raises enough stock to successfully conduct the same, and also sells some each year. A cotton-gin was erected in 1867, and in 1882 he added steam machinery, and now annually gins some 200 bales, raising about 20 bales himself. He was married in 1865 to Mrs. Sarah A. (Yarbrough) Bachus, a second cousin, and by her has eight children: Nannie L. (wife of L. L. Allen of this county), W. S. (of Columbia County), Ruth (wife of James Guice), Ora, Mary W., Lou A., James P. and Annie T. Mr. Yarbrough is a man who takes quite an active part in churches and schools, and is a liberal patron of worthy enterprises.

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