Biography of William A Council, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 14 Nov 2008
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Transcribed by Lisa Hamilton from 
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SOURCE:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern 
Arkansas. Chicago:Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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The village of Council Bend was named after Redwick Council, who built the first
house in that locality, and who was the grandfather of the subject of this
biography. His son Simeon, was born in North Caroliina, in 1805, and removed to
Arkansas in April, 1822, settling in Crittenden county for a short time and then
removed to Walnut Bend on the Mississippi River, being married  in St. Francis
county, in 1827, to Rebecca Lane, who was born in Alabama in April, 1811. He
died in April 1848, and his wife in 1879. They were the parents of eleven
children, three of whom are still living: Allen (a farmer of St. Francis
county), Mary J. (now Mrs. McKay, of Hood County, Texas), and William A. The
latter was reared in this county and began life for himself at the age of
nineteen. He was born here on December 28, 1847, and was married, February 22,
1874, to Miss Anna M. Smith, who died in July of that year. The following April,
Miss Elizabeth Filingim became his wife, who died April 22, 1881, leaving one
child, now deceased. Mr. Council's third matrimonial venture was in February
1883, to Miss Margaret L. Hubbard, of Alabama nativity, who died two years
later, having borne one child, that died in infancy. He joined the Union army at
the age of 16, enlisting in the Twenty-fifth Wisconsin Infantry, participating
in the battles of Buzzard's Roost, Big Shanty, Kenesaw Montain, Atlanta, and a
number of others. After the conflict Mr. Council went to Wisconsin, and remained
two years, then returning to Arkansas and settling in St. Francis County. He is
now engaged in the timber business in connection with farming, and owns 160
acres on the St. Francis river, which is very fertile and well timbered.