Benton Co., AR - Biographies - Archibald Mckissick Yell

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History of Benton County WASHINGTON COUNTY.

Archibald Mckissick Yell,was born in Fayettville. Washington Co., Ark.,
and is a son of Alexander Curry and Martha D. (Coffee) Yell, who were
born in Bedford County. Tenn., November 12, 1805, and in 1806,
respectively. The father was a Master Mason, a successful business man,
and died at Robinson, Ark., October 24, 1881. He was a son of Moses
Yell, an Englishman, and Methodist minister, who came to America. The
mother died in Fayetteville, Ark., March 25, 1849. She was a daughter
of Rice Coffee, a farmer. Archibald M. Yell grew to manhood in Benton
County, Ark., and received a common school education. He received some
help from his parents in starting out in life, and by successful
investments in now the owner of a fine farm of 300 acres. with 200
under cultivation. He is a Master Mason, and is an agreeable and
intelligent gentleman. His paternal uncle, Archibald Yell, was a
soldier in the War of 1812, enlisting at the age of seventeen years. He
was elected to Congress from this district, but at the breaking out of
the Mexican War he resigned his seat in that body and enlisted in that
struggle. He was commander of an Arkansas regiment, and was killed in
that war February 23, 1847.