JAMES Porter HERRON. A noble class of men have built up the agricultural interests of Mountain Home Township, Baxter County, Arkansas, and have made it a garden spot in the great commonwealth of the State. Among those who have been active and efficient in the work is he whose name stands at the head of this sketch. He has been identified with the farming interests of the county almost from his birth, and in every walk of life has conducted himself in an honorable, upright manner. He was born in what is now Baxter (then Fulton) County, November 20, 1855, a son of Fielden Herron and Pernetta C. Hutchenson Hawkins Herron. He received his education in the common schools and in Mountain Home Academy. When sixteen years of age he commenced farming and stockraising, and although he started without much means, by hard work and good management his possessions gradually increased until he is now the owner of 300 acres of land on North Fork, of
which 150 acres are under cultivation, and 120 acres in the farm on which he lives, about two miles southeast of Mountain Home. In 1873 he led to the altar Elizabeth Talburt, a daughter of Samuel Tolburt, but on the 10th of March, 1879, was called upon to mourn her death, she having borne him three children, only one of whom lived to adulthood. Then on February 21, 1885, Mr. Herron married Miss Mary Ann Sale, a daughter of John and Margarat Gray Sale, and to them two children have been given: Myrtie Augusta and John Devore (when article was written - more children were born). Mr. and Mrs. Herron are members in good standing of the Missionary Baptist Church, in which he is a deacon, and socially he is a member of the Blue Lodge of the A. F. & A. M. at Mountain Home, and the I. 0. 0. .F. He has always supported the measures of the Democratic party, but has been by no means active in political matters, his attention being given to other things.

James Porter and family moved to Hill County TX and are found there for the 1900 census.
1900 > TEXAS > HILL > 6 J-PCT
Series: T623 Roll: 1645 Page: 114 81/81 (HQ)
June 9 1900, Wm. _ J___, enum 48, sheet 5A
James P. Heron h w m Oct 1855 44 m16 AR TN AR farmer O r/w/E O _ F 76
Mary A. wife w f Jan 1859 41 m16 9/4 AR NC NC r/w/E
Myrtle A. dau w f Aug 1886 13 s AR AR AR 6sch/r/w
Find A Grave Memorial# 49144589
John D. son w m Mar 1890 10 s AR AR AR farm labor O 6/sch/r/w
Find A Grave Memorial# 44223441
Matilda E. dau w f __ 1894 5 s AR AR AR
Bryan W. son w m Nov 1897 2 s AR AR AR
Ed P. Cantrell nephew w m FEb 1873 27 s AR TN AR farm labor _ r/w/E
(note-the twin daughters, Nellie and Nettie died the year they were born)
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