My Genealogy Hound

John Nutt, farmer and stock-raiser, of Greene County, Ark., is one of its foremost men in the support of all measures for its progress and development. He was born in Shelby County, Tenn., and grew to manhood on his father’s farm, there receiving his education in the county schools. His father, William Nutt, was a native of Alabama, and moved from that State to Tennessee in 1827. There he engaged very successfully in farming, and, being a minister of the gospel, devoted much time to his Master’s cause. He reared a family of eleven children, four of whom are yet living. All his life he was faithful to his ideas of right and duty, and died in 1844. John Nutt has during his life engaged in farming, and now owns 520 acres of splendid land in this county, and 600 acres in Lawrence County. He has given some attention to stock-raising, and now has many good horses and mules. To him and wife have been born six children, and five of them have grown to manhood and womanhood. They are three sons and two daughters: William C., George W., Sampson M., Lavina E. and Nancy Ann. Mr. Nutt is a member of the Masonic order, and he and wife are worthy members of the Baptist Church.