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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Nevada 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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John Jefferson Pelt, a prominent and prosperous farmer of Nevada County, was born in North Carolina September 2, 1814. John Jefferson moved from North Carolina to Alabama in 1841. The subject of this sketch was united in matrimony to Cindarella Davie, of Tennessee. She passed her youth in Tennessee, and at the age of thirteen years moved with her parents to Alabama. They moved to Arkansas in 1844, and arrived here with only a small amount of money with which to begin their career, settling in Hempstead County in the woods, and was one of the original settlers of that county. Afterward he moved to his present estate, and has accumulated a considerable fortune. He also devoted a great deal of attention to mercantile business. Mr. and Mrs. Pelt have had fourteen children, of whom eight are living at the present time: Mary E. (wife of William S. Kent), James D., Rebecca J. (wife of B. J. Drake), Joseph William, Sarah J. (wife of John A. Cook), Joseph S., Laura, Ider (wife of E. R. McSwain), and Septimus F. Mr. Pelt’s mother was Miss Mary Capps before her marriage, and was born in the State of Virginia, and died in July, 1829, at Mecklinburg, N. C. He is a Master Mason, and a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and was justice of the peace for eight years.

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This family biography is one of 96 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Nevada County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Nevada County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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