Benton Co., AR - Biographies - N. B. Morton

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N. B. Morton, horticulturist, of Benton County, Ark., was born in 
Henry County, Va., in 1838. His parents, David and Elizabeth (Petty) 
Morton, were Virginians, and early residents of Southern Missouri, 
locating in the latter State in 1856, where he followed the occupation 
of farming. During the Civil War the father was shot by the Missouri 
State Guards, seventy-two shots being fired at him, and his friends 
were not permitted to care for his remains at his own home. The mother 
died in 1878 at the age of sixty-one years. N. B. Morton moved to 
Tennessee with his parents, and after a residence of twelve years in 
that State came with them to Missouri. Here he joined the Confederate 
service, Company A, Fourth Regiment Missouri State Guards, and served 
over four years. After the close of the war he spent three years in 
Louisiana, and then returned to Cooper County, Mo., and from there 
came to Arkansas in 1881, and is the owner of a good farm of 160 
acres. His residence is situated at the Electric Springs in Benton 
County, and he keeps a boarding house, the only one at the Springs. In 
October, 1865, he was married in Louisiana to Miss Carrie Blackwell, 
and their union has resulted in the birth of two children: William A. 
T. and Lewis Napoleon. Mr. Morton and family are members of the 
Baptist Church.