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Facts and Events
| Name[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] |
James Marion Rooker |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[3][12] |
11 Nov 1833 |
York District, SC |
| Marriage |
28 Jan 1858 |
Smith Co., MSto Mary Ann Hill |
| Alt Marriage |
28 Jan 1858 |
Smith Co., MSto Mary Ann Hill |
| Education? |
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Could Read And Write |
| Military[14] |
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Ms 46th Infantry, Civil War, Vicksburg |
| Occupation? |
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Farmer |
| Other[15][16] |
1890 |
ArkansasBiography |
| Death[13] |
29 Mar 1925 |
Hickory Plains, Prairie County, ARCause: chronic cystitis |
| Burial? |
30 Mar 1925 |
Butlerville Cemetery, Lonoke, AR |
| Religion? |
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Primitive Baptist Church, Beebe, AR |
According to Benton C. Brown, Jr. from Slidell, LA, at age 23 James M. Rooker was an overseer of slaves on a plantation someplace in Alabama, probably not far distant from the Mississippi counties in which Mary Ann Hill lived. At age 25 he had met and married Mary Ann. The wedding, we are told, was quite a big affair for that day, taking place at Burns, Smith County, MS on 28 Jan 1858, with a very large attendance of family and friends.
They continued to live in Smith County until 1867 at which time Mr. Rooker took his wife and five children by oxcart and moved to Arkansas. There, to the northeast of Little Rock, they settled and lived out the remainder of therir lives.
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References
- ↑ 1866 State Census, Smith County, MS
P. 19, Line 24. - ↑ Land Tract Records, Smith County Court House, Raliegh, MS, 1858
Vol. 30, p. 202.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Civil War Pension Application, AR, MS 46th Inf., 16 Jul 1917.
- ↑ Land Patent Records, Pickens County, AL, Nos. 715, 36476, 30309, 36715, 14004,
pp. 393, 480, 119, 207.
- ↑ Civil War Conferedate Service Records, 46th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry, Co. G, 8 Jun 1862-Feb 1864..
- ↑ 1900 Feferal Census, Hickory Plains Twp., Prairie Co. AR, ED 94, Sheet 3, Line 59.
- ↑ 1910 Federal Census, Hickory Plains Twp., Prairie Co, AR, ED 104, Sheet 8, Line 23.
- ↑ 1920 Federal Census, Beebe Twp, White Co., AR, ED 177, Sheet 6, Line 62.
- ↑ Dunbar Rowland, Military History of Mississippi 1803-1898, (Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Company 1988)
363-367.
- ↑ Benton C. Brown, Jr., Research Data, 1986.
- ↑ Goodspeed's Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi.
- ↑ Death Certificate, Little Rock, AR,.
- ↑ Death Certificate, Little Rock, AR,
File No. 5, Registered No. 50.
- ↑ Civil War Pension Application Jan. 10,1917Military History of Mississippi, by Dunbar Rowland.
- ↑ Eastern Arkansas Biographies and Historical Memoirs. (Ancestry.com. Eastern Arkansas Biographies and Historical Memoirs [database online]. Orem, UT: Ancestry.com, Inc., 1998. Original data: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas. Chicago: Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.)
James M. Rooker, 10 Apr 2004.
- ↑ James M. Rooker, farmer and stock raiser, Hickory Plains, Ark. Mr. Rooker is now following a calling that has for ages received undivided efforts from many worthy individuals, and one that always furnishes sustenance to the ready worker. He was originally from York County, S. C., where his birth occurred on December 11, 1833, and is the son of John B. Rooker, a native of South Carolina, and Nancy A. (McCallum) Rooker, who was born in Scotland. John B. Rooker was a mechanic, a bridge carpenter, and moved from his native State to Georgia, where he was engaged in building bridges on the first railroad from Atlanta to Chattanoogs. He subsequently located on a farm in Gordon County, and there received his final summons about 1857. He served as magistrate for a number of years, and was a much respected citizen. His wife survives him, and is seventy-five years of age. James M. Rooker passed his boyhood days in Georgia, and remained with his father until of age, after which he went to Noxubee County, Miss., and was overseer on a plantation for three years. He was married on January 28, 1858, in Smith County, to Miss Mary A. Hill, a native of Noxubee County, and the daughter of Sherod Hill. To this union have been born fourteen children: Emma E. (wife of R. S. Guess), Joseph A. (lives on a farm near his father's), J. Thomas (now taking medical lectures at Little Rock), Ella E. (wife of William Webb), John W., Augustus, Cora E. (wife of J. E. Wilson), Bunyon, Leroy C., Mary O. and Martha (twins), Samuel, Ava and Elmer. They lost one child, Minnie, on November 2, 1871, at the age of four years. After his marriage Mr. Rooker bought a farm in Smith County, and tilled the soil up to the breaking out of the late war. He enlisted in the Confederate army, Seventh Battalion Infantry, in May, 1861, and served twelve months, after which he was in the Forty-sixth Regiment Infantry, and served until the close of the war, being promoted from private to sergeant. He participated in the following engagements: Chickasaw Bayou, Port Gibson, siege of Vicksburg, where he was captured, held a prisoner until the fall and then exchanged. After this he was in the fights at Atlanta, Kenesaw Mountain, and in the fights from Dalton to Nashville. He was again captured in front of Nashville, and held at Camp Douglas until the close of the war. He received one slight wound at Vicksburg, but numerous bullets passed through his clothing. Returning to Mississippi after the war, he followed farming there for two years, and in 1868 moved to Arkansas, where he rented land in Prairie County for one year. He then purchased 160 acres, cleared it, and added to the same until he now owns 500 acres of land, with 150 acres under cultivstion. He has good buildings, a fine orchard of five acres, and is one of the progressive men of the county. He has been a member of the school board for a number of years, and is deeply interested in educational matters. He and wife are members of the Baptist Church, and he is deacon in the same.
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