McAnally

About the year 1851, the McAnally family came to Marion County from eastern Tennessee. The mother, Mary, was a widow. She was a member of a prominent Virginia family. Her children were: Lucy; James; and C. C. (Columbus). Both Lucy and James were already married, and on the way to Arkansas the group lived for a short time in Kentucky, across the river from Cairo, Illinois. It was there that C. C. met and married Louisa Lewis, who lived in Cairo. The family came to Arkansas and located in Flippin Barrens.

Lucy was born in 1820 in Tennessee and her husband, James Shelton, was born in 1800 in North Carolina. Their son, Jackson, was born in Tennessee in 1846. The other children were Francis, George, and Jacob, all of whom were born in Arkansas.

James and Emily were the parents of James, William, Jenetta, and Columbus.

C. C. and Louisa were the parents of Samuel, James, Alfred, and Mollie Ann. Mary, born in Virginia in 1796, was living in the home of C. C. and Louisa in 1860.

During the Civil War James was on his way to the Wickersham Mill and was killed by bushwhackers. Louisa had died in 1863. The other members of the family went down White River on flat boats in 1865. They stopped at Augusta, Arkansas, where they lived until 1872 when C. C. came back to the hills and bought a farm in Izard County about three miles from the little town of Franklin.

After moving to Izard County, C. C. McAnally married Martha Berry and they became parents of five daughters and two sons. A son and one daughter never married. The others lived on the farm until they married. This 220-acre farm was the family home for 100 years and is now owned by a grandson. For many years it was operated as a dairy farm, and for many years the three sons by the first marriage owned farms adjoining that of their father and reared their families there.

Although the family lived in Marion County only 14 years, they were early settlers and would have remained had it not been for the war. This was just one of the many families whose lives were changed by this war. Mollie Ann was the only member of the family who returned to Marion County. In 1903, she and her husband, John Stacy Roberts, and six children came to Yellville where, except for five years, she lived until her death in 1937. She, her husband, a daughter, and a son and his wife are buried in the Layton Cemetery.