Benton Co., AR - Biographies - William Miser

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William Miser, postmaster at Brightwater, Ark., is a native of Benton 
County, born in 1853, and is a son of G. W. and Jane Miser. The father 
was born in Tennessee in 1807, and was there reared and married. The 
mother died in Arkansas in 1840, having borne nine children, and the 
father was afterward married to Miss Jane Potter, by whom he became 
the father of eight children, [p.869] our subject being the fifth. G. 
W. Miser after coming to Arkansas located on Pea Ridge, where he 
became one of the leading farmers and stockmen of the county, owning 
at one time 1,460 acres of land and other valuable property. His death 
occurred on the 25th of December, 1861. William Miser's boyhood days 
were spent, in following the plow and in attending the common schools. 
In 1878 he was united in marriage to Miss M. V. Pickens, who was born 
in Arkansas in 1858. Mr. Miser is the owner of a farm, and has an 
orchard of 1,300 trees, and is at present engaged in managing the 
mercantile store of J. S. Dickson, at Bright Water. Mr. Miser is a 
Democrat, is past master and secretary of Pea Ridge Lodge No. 119, A. 
F. & A. M., at Brightwater. He is also a Pilgrim Knight and a Chapter 
Mason. He and wife worship in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.