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George A. Lockard, deputy county clerk at Jacksonport, Jackson County, Ark. This prominent citizen of the county owes his nativity to Breckinridge County, Ky., where his birth occurred on the 5th day of June, 1846. His parents, Phillip A. and Armilda (Dowell) Lockard, are natives, respectively, of Westmoreland County, Va., and Breckinridge County, Ky. They were married in the latter State whither the father had come when a boy, and there remained until 1849, when he and family moved to Jackson County, Ark. They located at Jacksonport, and there the father engaged in the livery business until about the year 1852, at which time he moved to the country near Jacksonport, and followed the occupation of overseer of slaves, in said county, until the year 1856. Moving to the State of Louisiana he continued as overseer of slaves on a plantation, near Donaldsonville, until his death, which occurred in March, 1859. Then in the fall following the mother and family returned to Jackson County, Ark., and there remained until her death, which occurred in November of 1859. The family consisted of five children, of whom our subject is the only survivor, he being only three years old when his father first moved to Arkansas. At his mother’s death he returned to the land of his nativity, and remained there during the war, and in 1866 returned to Jackson County, Ark., where he grew to manhood, receiving such education as the schools of that day afforded, and, at an early age, he began the occupation of clerk in the mercantile business, at Jacksonport, where he has since resided. Since the year 1878 he has been acting as deputy clerk of Jackson County, and at present is still acting in that capacity. He is a pioneer of Jackson County, and during his residence here has witnessed many changes in the way of improvements, etc. He was married, in May, 1885, to Miss Lizzie Bach, a native of Germany, and the fruits of his union are two sons: George A. and Franklin A. Mr. Lockard is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and American Legion of Honor. Mrs. Lockard is a member of the Lutheran Church.