My Genealogy Hound

R. H. Betts is well and favorably known to the majority of the residents of this section, for since the spring of 1873 he has been prominently identified with the farming interests hereabouts. He is a Georgian, born in 1842, a son of Z. B. Betts, who participated in the late Civil War, and is still a resident of Georgia. In this State R. H. Betts reached manhood, and from that State, in the month of July, 1861, he enlisted in the Sixteenth Georgia Regiment, under Capt. Reynold, and was with Longstreet in the seven days’ fight at Resaca. He was also at Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, Seven Pines, Fredericksburg, Antietam, and was at Yorktown, and in an engagement on the 9th of April, just before the surrender of Gen. Lee at Appomattox Court House. He was then paroled, and returned to his home in Georgia, where he remained until 1873, when he came to Arkansas, purchased land, and now owns 205 acres of fine hill land, on which the cotton yield is one-half bale to the acre. His land yield abundantly of the different cereals and fruits, but is especially adapted to the propagation of stock, the raising of horses and hogs receiving considerable attention at Mr. Betts’ hands. His marriage, which took place in Georgia, in 1866, was to Miss Armistead, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Armistead. Of a family of children born to them, Dessie married John H. H. Moses, and F. P., a son resides in Texas. Mr. Betts and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he belongs to the A. F. & A. M. and the Farmers’ Alliance. He is a Democrat.