Biography of Miles H Partin, Scott Co, AR

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Submitted by: Charlene Holland <Char@presys.com>
        Date: 9 Sep 1998
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	Miles H. Partin is a Mississippian, born in 1843, and as he was
brought up to a farm life by his father he has made that his chief calling
through life. His parents, F. H. and Elizabeth O. (Miles) Partin, were
born in North Carolina and Tennessee, in 1812 and 1825, respectively, and
he is the oldest of their eleven children, the other members of the
family being W.E., Mary F. (wife of W. W. Collier), A.G. (deceased),
George W. (deceased), B.F., Orlena (deceased), Hellon (wife of G.A.
Stubblefield), Mattie (wife of John Cannon), Jennett (wife of David
Cannon), and Jasper N. The family removed to Arkansas when the subject of
this sketch was seven years of age, and on January 1, 1850, located on an
eighty-acre tract of land at Dardanelle, to which he afterward added
until at the time of the father's death in 1877 he was the owner of
700 acres of land, upon which he had cleared 125 acres and built a number
of good buildings, planting, also, a large orchard on his home place,
where his widow now resides. He and his wife were both members of the
Missionary Baptist Church. The educational advantages which Miles H.
received quite limited, but after his parents had acquired their home
they undertook his education, and intended to send him away to school,
but the opening of the Rebellion prevented them carrying out their
intentions, hence his education is limited to what he could acquire in
the subscription schools of his boyhood. He entered the Confederate
service, enlisting in Company E, Twenty-first Arkansas Infantry. At the
reorganization, after Corinth, he was transferred to Company H, and was
in the battles of Iuka, Corinth, Farmington, Vicksberg, Port Gibson,
Champion's Hill, Black River Bridge, where he was taken prisoner and
taken to Camp Morton, near Indianapolis, Ind., where he was kept two
weeks, then transferred to Fort Delaware, after which he entered the
service of the United States, and was sent to the frontier of Minnesota,
shortly after the Sioux outbreak. Here he remained until 1865, when he
received his discharge. He returned to Dardanelle December 24, 1867,
since which time he has been engaged in farming, purchasing, in 1868,
120 acres of land in Perry County, but which he afterward sold and
returned to Dardanelle. In 1876 he bought 120 acres in Hunt Township,
and homesteaded 120 acres adjoining, and upon this he has cleared about
60 acres, built a house and outbuildings, fences, etc., and has otherwise
improved his place, setting out a good orchard. His principal crops are
corn, oats and wheat, the yield of the first mentioned being from
twenty-five to forty bushels, oats averaging twenty-five bushels to the
acre. His tenants sometimes raise cotton and it usually averages one half
bale to the acre, but he has raised one bale on the same amount of ground.
In the fall of 1868 he was married to Miss Louisa Wright, a native of
Georgia, born in 1845, a daughter of Berry and Mary (Chistoper) Wright,
and to Mr. Partin and his wife one son has been born, Vernie (who was born
February 24, 1872). Mr. Partin is giving this son every advantage in the
way of an education, and as he wishes to make law his profession he will
have every opportunity of perfecting himself in this science. After
finishing his education in the common schools he entered the Dardanelle
High School, where he is making (in his second year) very rapid
advancement in his studies.