William S. Durrett, P. O., Marshall. Mr. W. S. Durrett was born in Saline county, April 13, 1834, where he was raised and educated. At the age of eighteen, he attended one session at the State University at Columbia. He is the fourth son of William L. Durrett and, until his marriage farmed on his father’s farm. In 1856, he was married to Miss Louisa Lankford, daughter of Jesse Lankford, and sister of the present circuit clerk of Saline county. Soon after his marriage, Mr. Durrett moved to the farm where S. P. Allen now lives, where he lived until he bought the farm he now lives on from Mr. Lankford, situated six miles east of Marshall, and containing 240 acres of prime land. He has only one son, Frank, who is twenty-four years of age. In 1862, he enlisted, as a private, in the Confederate army, Garrett’s company, Gordon’s regiment, Shelby’s brigade, and was in the following battles: Coon Creek, Prairie Grove, Springfield, Hartsville, Helena, Pine Bluff, Cape Girardeau, Camden, Mark’s Mills, Little Rock, Saline River, Cove Creek, Cane Hill, Booneville, Lexington, Big and Little Blue, Independence, Westport, Five Prairie Creek, Newtonia, &c., &c. Surrendered, and came home in 1865.
