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Stephen T. Northcutt first saw the light of this world in South Carolina, in 1841, as son of William and Kesiah (Beasley) Northcutt, formerly of North Carolina. William Northcutt is of Scotch descent, his father coming to the United States in 1776. The paternal great-grandmother was a full-blooded Indian. The mother of Stephen Northcutt was of French descent, her father coming from France in time to take part in the War of 1812. Stephen T. Northcutt was brought up in South Carolina where he lived until the war broke out, when he enlisted in the Confederate army in 1861, in the Twenty-first South Carolina Volunteer “Greyhorns” Regiment, in Hagood’s brigade of Hood’s division, in which he served until the close of the war. He was wounded at the battle of Fort Wagner on Moss Island, and again at Walthall Junction, yet not severely, these being flesh-wounds. He was captured at Fort Fisher, then carried to Elmira, N. Y., where he was held as prisoner from January 15, 186 to September of the same year. He was an officer in the “Hospital Steward,” and he fought over the ground on which his great-grandfather fought during the Revolutionary War, where he was killed. Stephen T. had five brothers in the army with him. After the war he returned to his home in South Carolina and remained there until 1869, when he removed with his family to Arkansas, and settled in Lonoke County, on the farm he still calls home. Mr. Northcutt owns four hundred acres of land and has about half of it cleared. He was married to Nancy Barnes, of South Carolina, and who was born in 1838. They are the parents of eleven children, nine of whom are still living: Lizzie, Callie, Alice, William, Leota, Etta, Gertrude, Albert and Lovica. Mr. Northcutt, with his wife, belongs to the Methodist Church; he has held the office of justice of the peace for six years, also the offices of school director, and coroner for two terms, four years. Politically he is a strong Democrat.