Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas
INDEPENDENCE COUNTY–FORMATION AND ORGANIZATION–PUBLIC STRUCTURES–CATALOGUE
OF OFFICIALS–THE FRANCHISE–ADMINISTRATION OF LAW–THE COMING
OF THE PIONEERS–LOCATION OF THE COUNTY–ITS WATER COURSES–NUMEROUS
PERSONALAND BUSINESS SKETOHES–TIMBER AND MINES–LANDS AND CROPS–CENSUS
RETURNS–RAILROADS–RELI****IOUS GROWTH–TOWNS–POPULAR INSTRUCTION–WAR
RECORD–FACTS AND STATISTICS.
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John D. Aydelott, a successful farmer of Oil Trough, is the son of A. P. Aydelott
and Martha J. Aydelott, who were the parents of twelve children, John D. being
the fourth child. Five lived to be grown: M. J., J. D., A. W., S. E. and A.
P. Aydelott, Jr., who is also a successful farmer in Oil Trough. A. P. Aydelott,
Sr., was one of the oldest settlers of Oil Trough Bottom, coming to Oil Trough
in 1844, bringing the first stock of goods that was sold in Oil Trough. He
bought 240 acres of land from Joe Egner, and cleared 200, and farmed and made
stock raising a success. At the beginning of the Civil War Mr. A. P. Aydelott
was opposed to the States seceding, but after they did he cast his lot with
the Confederacy. In politics before the war he was a Whig, but afterward a
Democrat. A. P. Aydelott came to Arkansas from Tennessee in 1836, first settling
in Little Rock, afterward Elizabeth, thence to Oil Trough, where he and his
wife (whom he married in 1844),
Martha J. Birdsong, also of Tennessee,
lived happily together until death claimed the father and [p.635] husband,
October 16, 1880. His widow and the mother of our subject, followed August
26, 1884. They were buried in the family graveyard on the farm. They were
both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The five children living
are all doing well. One girl, S. E., is an invalid, and lives with the youngest
brother.
U.S. Army Historical Register, 1789-1903, Vol. 2
Alphabetical List of Officers of the Regular Army (From Its Organization,
September 29, 1789, to 1903) Who Were Killed or Wounded in Action or Taken
Prisoner, With Date and Place.
B.
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Birdsong, Thomas B., capt 1 Miss inf.
Revolutionary War Records VIRGINIA
SECTION II (18) [DOCUMENT No. 44] (18) LIST OF NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS
AND SOLDIERS OF THE VIRGINIA LINE ON CONTINENTAL ESTABLISHMENT, WHOSE NAMES
APPEAR ON THE ARMY REGISTER AND WHO HAVE NOT RECEIVED BOUNTY LAND, RICHMOND,
1835.
Thomas Bass Soldier 7,027 100 Francis Bass, Drury Bass, and R. Birdsong
Mark Alexander