Biography of Henry Looper, Scott Co, AR

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Submitted by: Charlene Holland <Char@presys.com>
        Date: 9 Sep 1998
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      Henry Looper, Sr., is residing four miles east of Mansfield, Scott
County, Ark., but was born in South Carolina in 1817, to Samuel and Mary
(Jones) Looper, they being also born in South Carolina, in which State
they were married. They removed to Alabama in an early day and there both
passed from life a few years after locating. Of a family of four sons and
four daughters born to them the subject of this sketch is the only one
now living. He was married in South Carolina in1836 to Miss Mary Freeman,
and by her became the father of the following family of children: Henry,
Thomas, James, Joseph, George, Martha, Mary (wife of James McMullens),
Elizabeth, Frances (wife of Joseph Looper, see biography), Ann (wife of
Lee Ellwood), Laura Bell (wife of Joseph Louston) and Victoria (wife of
Luther Dutton. Joseph, George and Martha are deceased. Mr. Looper's first
wife died in 1862, and in 1867 he espoused Mrs. Mary Ann (Frizzell)
Brozier, widow of Bert Brozier. This union resulted in the birth of
fourteen children: Fanny (wife of Jasper Curnatt), Samuel, Fuller,
Charles (deceased), Sallie, Nellie, Maggie, Napnie, Bud (deceased),
Donie, Looney, Gorum, Lawrence, and a child that died in infancy not
named. Mr. Looper has become the owner of 500 acres of fine land, and
during a residence of over thirty years on this farm he has succeeded in
putting 230 acres under cultivation. He is one of the earliest settlers
of this county and has always manifested a deep interest in her
progress and development, especially in the way of churches and schools.
He is a member of Lodge No. 163, of the A. F. & A. M. at Mansfield, and
although he is now seventy-three years of age he is yet hale and hearty.