Jacob Preston Pyeatt

PYEATT, J.P. - J.P. Pyeatt, one of the best known citizens of Washington County, died Tuesday night of cancer at his home near Viney Grove. [The Springdale News 12/16/1910]

( first two lines from tattered newspaper missing) - this county and was a son of Mr. F.E. Pyeatt and his wife Elizabeth, and was born old the old Pyeatt homestead where he died March 22, 1841. May 8, 1873, Mr. Pyeatt was united in marriage to Miss Lydia Kerr of Walnut Grove, Missouri, who survives him. To this union was born nine children, eight of whom are living, his oldest son, Claude, having died in prairie grove November 9th, 1907. The other children are: J. Eugene Pyeatt of Tahlequah, Oklahoma; Fred E. Pyeatt of Minneapolis, Minnesota; R. Bert Pyeatt of Alluwe, Oklahoma; Mrs. Lotie Counsel of Stockton, Missouri; Misses Besse, Teen and Dan and Ralph who live at the parental home. When the call to arms was sounded throughout the land in 1861, Pres. Pyeatt then a lad of 20 years, answered the call and served in the Confederacy the four years of the struggle as Lieutenant on Col. Stirman’s staff, and was severely wounded in the battle at Dardeanelle. Mr. Pyeatt was a sincere Christian, an honorable and upright citizen, and by his strict integrity and high ideals of right and justice won the confidence and esteem of those who knew him. He was a model father and a true Christian soldier, and proved his heroism and soldierly qualities on many a hard fought battlefield. His home was one of hospitality to friend and stranger. Quiet and unobtrusive, liberal and active in the support of all enterprises designed for the promotion of education, morality and the church. He was a member of the Viney Grove Methodist Church and was one of its ardent supporters. The funeral services were held from the Methodist Church in Viney Grove at 3:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon and were conducted by Rev. F.A. Lark, assisted by Rev. H.A. Armstrong and the body laid to rest beside his parents in the Prairie Grove Cemetery. The local Camp of Confederate Veterans, of which the deceased was a member, and the Daughters of the Confederacy attended in a body and the impressive service of the Camp was conducted at the grave, after which the Veterans and Daughters sang “Nearer My God to Thee.” The floral tributes were many and beautiful. The pallbearers were his comrades from the Camp as follows: Messrs. B.A. Carl, B.C. Campbell, Capt. W.H. Hardwick, J.C. Bain, A.T. Strickler and Sam Williams. [Prairie Grove Herald 12/15/1910]

Mrs. E.L. Pyeatt, widow of J.P. Pyeatt, who died December 15, 1910, filed Widow Application #21515 with the Confederate Pension Board of Washington County for a Confederate pension and it was received as allowed August 16, 1917 by the State, citing her husband’s service with Company E, 1stArkansas Cavalry from 1861 thru 1865. [State of Arkansas Confederate Pension Archives]

PYEATT, Jacob Preston - Born March 22, 1841, the son of Ewing Pyeatt, born July 11, 1816, died October 21, 1857, and Elizabeth MAXWELL Pyeatt, born August 22, 1820, died November 6, 1894. They were married July 28, 1836. Jacob married Lyda Kerr, born August 15, 1850, on May 8, 1873 and they became the parents of nine children, they being: S. Claud, born 13 March 1874, died 9 November 1906, married Lizzie Ray; Fred E., born 26 December 1870, married Emma Brown; Jesse Eugene, born 20 January 1871; Leota B., born 3 November 1877; Robert B., born 16 November 1881, married Grace Davis; Mary E., born 30 June 1884; Marteen, born 22 March 1887, married Mr. McGruder; Milton A., born 21 March 1889, married Gladys Carl and Ralph Pyeatt, born 24 August 1892. Jacob Preston Pyeatt died December 14, 1910. [The Pyeatts and the Carnahans of Old Cane Hill, Washington County Historical Society- No. 8 of Bulletin Series, W.J. Lemke, editor]

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PYEATT. F. E. 34, Elizabeth 30, John 13,

William 11, Jacob 9 AR/AR dwg 22,

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PYEATT. F. E. 34, Elizabeth 30, John 13,

William 11, Jacob 9 AR/AR dwg 22,

Marrshill twp