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William H. Pullen has been a resident of Clear Spring, Clark County, Ark., for the past sixteen years, and his example of industry and sincere endeavor to make a success of life is well worthy the imitation of the rising generation. He was born in Anderson District, S. C., in 1829, being a son of Leroy and Teresa (Lowery) Pullen, who were born in Buncombe County, N. C, June 3, 1799, and Anderson District, S. C, November 1, 1806, respectively. When a small boy Leroy Pullen was taken to South Carolina by his parents, and was married there on the 25th of March, 1825, and there made his home until 1844, when he moved to Cherokee County, Ga. Here Mrs. Pullen's death occurred on the 6th of December, 1864, and three years after this event Mr. Pullen .removed to Yell County, Ark., and about 1874 to Clark County, Ark., where he died January 31, 1888, at the age of eighty-eight years seven months and twenty-nine days. He followed the occupation of wagon and carriage-making nearly all his life, but for a number of years before his death he retired from the active duties of life. William Pullen, the paternal grandfather, was a Virginian, but was married in North Carolina, and from this State removed to South Carolina, where he died. The grandfather, Henry Lowery, was also a Virginian, and at a very early day went with his parents to South Carolina, where he was married to Sallie McRea, of Virginia descent, and spent the rest of his life. William H. Pullen was the second of nine children—four sons and five daughters— and although he removed to Georgia with his parents in his youth, he was a resident of his native county from 1847 to 1860, during which time he clerked and was in the mercantile business on his own responsibility. In 1861 he returned to Georgia, and there joined Company B, Forty-third Georgia Infantry, and served in Kentucky and Tennessee, and participated in the engagements around Vicksburg. Here he received a wound which disabled him from further service in the field, but he was on detail service in the commissary department until the close of the war. He surrendered at Grenada, Miss., and almost immediately came west with his father, one sister and a niece, and settled in Clark County, where he was married the following year to Lauretta C, daughter of Henry and Martha Randolph, who came from Tennessee to Clark County in an early day, and here died when Mrs. Pullen was a small child. She and Mr. Pullen have five children—three sons and two daughters. They are now living on a fine farm of 280 acres, and have 100 acres under cultivation. Mr. Pullen has also followed a mercantile life during this time until within a few years. He is a Democrat, and his wife belongs to the Missionary Baptist Church.