My Genealogy Hound

Joseph Garrett, a popular and successful planter and merchant, at Sarassa, was born in Madison County, Ala., March 7, 1844, being the son of Joseph G. and Ellen (McCloud) Garrett, both of whom died while the subject of this sketch was quite a small lad. At the time of his death, Mr. Garrett, Sr., was in charge of an iron foundry, at Utah Landing, Ala. Joseph is the seventh of the ten children born to his parents, and is the only one living at the present time; indeed, so far as his knowledge goes, he has no living relative. After death had robbed him of his parents, our subject lived with an aunt for a few years, and afterward came with his uncle, Lewis G. Garrett, to Arkansas, where they settled in Arkansas County. In 1864 Joseph Garrett went to Texas, settling in Navarro County, where he volunteered in the Confederate service, and served until the close of the war, in 1865. He returned, in 1866, to this State, locating twenty miles from Pine Bluff, and while there was married to Miss Lucilla Kimbrough, daughter of Buckley and Susan Kimbrough. For the past ten years Mr. Garrett has been living at Sarassa, where he owns a valuable farm, and the success attained in the brief span of his life is due chiefly to his own exertions. Mrs. Garrett is a beautiful woman, and possesses much grace of manner and mind, making her an ornament to society and a blessing to the home over which she reigns.