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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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Lewis M. Carlton. The history of Nevada County records the sketches of many popular, prominent and successful men, but none of them are of more importance than Lewis M. Carlton, the subject of the present sketch. He was born in Wilkes County, N. C, on October 12, 1831, and is a son of Thomas Carlton, who was a native of the same county, and born in June, 1807, dying August 3, 1873, in Jackson County, Ala. He moved from North Carolina to Bedford County, Tenn., in 1833, and afterward moved again, and this time settled in Alabama. He was by profession a mechanic and farmer, meeting with great success in both occupations. The Carlton family are of English descent, and of much influence in the States where they have resided at different times. The mother of Lewis M. was Miss Elizabeth Land, previous to her marriage, and died when he was quite a small boy, and his father married again. His youth was passed in Alabama, where he received a limited education. When eighteen years of age he moved to Texas, but finding that State not to his taste, next tried Louisiana, where he continued in the livery business for two years, after which he settled in Hempstead County, Ark. In 1861 the subject of this sketch enlisted in the Confederate army, in the Seventeenth Arkansas Regiment. He was wounded at Pea Ridge, and was disabled, but re-enlisted in a short time, serving until the close of the war, after which he returned to Hempstead County. Mr. Carlton was first married in Louisiana, in 1852, to Miss L. C. Dozier, who died in 1859, leaving two boys and a girl, viz.: Thomas, Alice (Mrs. William King), and Lewis M. In 1862 he married Miss Emma K. Cawling, who died in 1864. He afterward married the sister of his second wife, Miss Martha Cawling. The subject of this sketch took possession of his present property in 1881. He owns about 1,000 acres of land, 200 of which are in a state of excellent cultivation, and about the same number of acres in Columbia and Lafayette Counties. He is a Master Mason, and a prominent K of P.

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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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