Veteran: Civil war (CSA)
h/o Susan Nelson CREASE, 7th born.
Her father suggested naming their new church, Christ Church, honoring their church in Alexandria, Virginia, while being built in early 1840's.
Birth: 4th of eleven known children in Nicholsonville, Jassmine county, Kentucky.
Removed with family when not yet six years old, from Shelbyville, Shelby county, Kentucky, by boat, down the Cumberland, Ohio and Mississippi rivers to White river in Arkansas Territory, then up the Arkansas river bank because of low river stage, to Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas Territory, which had a river crossing for the Saint Louis to Texas Red river trail and Military Road where ferry was once operated by Edmund Hogan (1780NC-1828AR) also a veteran from War of 1812 ~ ~ becoming one of the earlest, among the few prominent territorial pioneersin later part of 1825. Gen Hogan was stabbed to death three years later, year following shooting death of Maj Isaac Watkins in 1827, and four years after capitol was moved from Arkansas Post.
Thirty years later purchased forty acres of land in Pulaski county, Arkansas, 1 MAR 1855.
Mayor of Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas, 1859 to 1860.
Census: 1860, age 39 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas with wife, brother & three kids.
Purchased the Lambert J Reardon home following his wife's 1860 demise, then raised their family in it.
Reportedly, a long term clerk of Pulaski Chancery Court.
He served as Arkansas': Receiver of Real estate bank of Arkansas.
1860 September 27: Receipt, John QUINELLEY, Treasurer of Arkansas, Little Rock, to Gordon N. PEAY, receiver in Chancery of the assets of the Real Estate Bank of the State of Arkansas.
First Captain of the famous Capitol Guards, aka Company A, 6th Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, Confederate States Army, first under Maj Gen William Joesph HARDEE, "Old Reliable" and in the Arkansas Brigade of Gen. Patrick CLEBURNE's Division, becoming a Lieutenant Colonel fighting with the Confederate Army of Tennessee in some of its battles east of the Mississippi River, as of October 1861 for two years, including Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, Tunnel Hill, the Atlanta Campaign, Spring Hill, Franklin, Nashville and Bentonville, until end of the conflict.
"Capitol Guards", Company A, 6th Regiment Arkansas Infantry Volunteers, Confederate States Army under Gordon N PEAY, which was:
"....recruited from the "first families" of Little Rock, as well as prominent merchants and skilled artisans. There were a few St. Johns' College students in the company as well. You'd think that a company of "blue bloods" wouldn't be as feisty as the typical company of Arkansas farm-boys, but the Capitol Guards built quite a reputation during the war, as tenacious fighters and seasoned campaigners. The survivors of the company were among the "movers and shakers" of Little Rock for the rest of the 19th century.", as once written by Bryan HOWERTON on the Arkansas Civil War Board.
Gordon N PEAY served the seventh Arkansas governor, Harris FLANAGIN (1817NJ-1974AR), as Arkansas' Adjutant General later 1863 and 1864.
Applied for and received a Federal pardon 1 NOV 1865
Census: 1870, age 50 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas with wife & five kids.
1911 ceremony to dedicate a monument to the memory of the Capitol Guards, whose first leader was Capt Gordon Neill PEAY, to wit:
"LEST WE FORGET"
During unveiling ceremonies, Fay HEMPSTEAD read poem entitled "At Camp Shaver," in which high tribute was paid to the "Capital Guards". Also included was Miss Mary FLETCHER (Mrs. Leonard H. DRENNAN) (1890AR-1982MD), daughter of Colonel John Gould FLETCHER (1831AR-1906AR), (3 June 1861 Captain, Age 30, Capital Guards. Elected May 8,1862; Severely wounded in thigh at Murfreesboro, Tennessee 31 December 1862; 6th Arkansas Infantry, Company A, and Mayor 1875-1881), standing at the east side of the monument, holding a blue ribbon, while Miss Helen Frances PEAY, granddaughter of Gordon Neill PEAY (1819KY-1876AR), first captain of the Guards (Mayor 1859-1860), stood on the south side holding a white ribbon. At a signal, Misses FLETCHER and PEAY pulled the ribbons while the band played "Dixie" and the old veterans assembled shouted at the tops of their voices. The screen fell away, with a shower of roses, the tall granite shaft stood revealed. (View at right)
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SOURCE: Pris Weathers' arkansasties.com:
Arkansas Gazette – 1899
November 14, 2010
The Gazette of Twenty Years Ago
By Fred W. Allsopp – Business Manager of the Gazette
Time brings changes and many have been wrought on this newspaper in the course of the past two decades. A comparison of the Gazette of 1899 with the Gazette of today forcibly illustrates the paper's progress.
W.B. Worthen, who was one of the leading bankers of Arkansas, was president of the company; Col. Robert A. Little, a wealthy panter, was vice president; and these gentlemen, together with Col. John G. Fletcher, president of the German National Bank and once a candidate for governor; Judge J.W. House, formerly United States District Attorney and for many years Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee; William M. Kavanaugh, who after serving as president of the Southern Trust Company and filled an unexpired term as United States Senator; and Gordon N. Peay, now president of the W.B. Worthen Company, formed the Board of Directors of the pubishing company. Mr. Peay was also treasurer. With the exception of Judge Kavanaugh, the directors were not newspaper men, and they did very little "directing," but finer and able men never sat around a director's table.
Death: in Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Father: Major Nicholas PEAY b: 28 APR 1784 Virginia.
Mother: Juilet Mildred NEILL b: 26 MAR 1793 Frederick county, Virginia.
Marriage: Susan "Sue" Nelson CREASE b: 27 FEB 1836 Alexandria, Fairfax county, Virginia.
Married: 22 FEB 1854 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Known Children
Jane "Jeanie" T PEAY b: 5 JAN 1855 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Mollie Crease PEAY b: 25 JUN 1856 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Sue PEAY b: 1858 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Elizabeth "Bessie" PEAY b: 3 FEB 1863 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Nicholas PEAY b: 28 APR 1865 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Gordon Neill PEAY b: 3 JAN 1868 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Some report Caroline Peyton PEAY b: 1873 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas is also their child.
The above, 06/01/12, corrected biography by Bill.
h/o Susan Nelson CREASE, 7th born.
Her father suggested naming their new church, Christ Church, honoring their church in Alexandria, Virginia, while being built in early 1840's.
Birth: 4th of eleven known children in Nicholsonville, Jassmine county, Kentucky.
Removed with family when not yet six years old, from Shelbyville, Shelby county, Kentucky, by boat, down the Cumberland, Ohio and Mississippi rivers to White river in Arkansas Territory, then up the Arkansas river bank because of low river stage, to Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas Territory, which had a river crossing for the Saint Louis to Texas Red river trail and Military Road where ferry was once operated by Edmund Hogan (1780NC-1828AR) also a veteran from War of 1812 ~ ~ becoming one of the earlest, among the few prominent territorial pioneersin later part of 1825. Gen Hogan was stabbed to death three years later, year following shooting death of Maj Isaac Watkins in 1827, and four years after capitol was moved from Arkansas Post.
Thirty years later purchased forty acres of land in Pulaski county, Arkansas, 1 MAR 1855.
Mayor of Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas, 1859 to 1860.
Census: 1860, age 39 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas with wife, brother & three kids.
Purchased the Lambert J Reardon home following his wife's 1860 demise, then raised their family in it.
Reportedly, a long term clerk of Pulaski Chancery Court.
He served as Arkansas': Receiver of Real estate bank of Arkansas.
1860 September 27: Receipt, John QUINELLEY, Treasurer of Arkansas, Little Rock, to Gordon N. PEAY, receiver in Chancery of the assets of the Real Estate Bank of the State of Arkansas.
First Captain of the famous Capitol Guards, aka Company A, 6th Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, Confederate States Army, first under Maj Gen William Joesph HARDEE, "Old Reliable" and in the Arkansas Brigade of Gen. Patrick CLEBURNE's Division, becoming a Lieutenant Colonel fighting with the Confederate Army of Tennessee in some of its battles east of the Mississippi River, as of October 1861 for two years, including Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, Tunnel Hill, the Atlanta Campaign, Spring Hill, Franklin, Nashville and Bentonville, until end of the conflict.
"Capitol Guards", Company A, 6th Regiment Arkansas Infantry Volunteers, Confederate States Army under Gordon N PEAY, which was:
"....recruited from the "first families" of Little Rock, as well as prominent merchants and skilled artisans. There were a few St. Johns' College students in the company as well. You'd think that a company of "blue bloods" wouldn't be as feisty as the typical company of Arkansas farm-boys, but the Capitol Guards built quite a reputation during the war, as tenacious fighters and seasoned campaigners. The survivors of the company were among the "movers and shakers" of Little Rock for the rest of the 19th century.", as once written by Bryan HOWERTON on the Arkansas Civil War Board.
Gordon N PEAY served the seventh Arkansas governor, Harris FLANAGIN (1817NJ-1974AR), as Arkansas' Adjutant General later 1863 and 1864.
Applied for and received a Federal pardon 1 NOV 1865
Census: 1870, age 50 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas with wife & five kids.
1911 ceremony to dedicate a monument to the memory of the Capitol Guards, whose first leader was Capt Gordon Neill PEAY, to wit:
"LEST WE FORGET"
During unveiling ceremonies, Fay HEMPSTEAD read poem entitled "At Camp Shaver," in which high tribute was paid to the "Capital Guards". Also included was Miss Mary FLETCHER (Mrs. Leonard H. DRENNAN) (1890AR-1982MD), daughter of Colonel John Gould FLETCHER (1831AR-1906AR), (3 June 1861 Captain, Age 30, Capital Guards. Elected May 8,1862; Severely wounded in thigh at Murfreesboro, Tennessee 31 December 1862; 6th Arkansas Infantry, Company A, and Mayor 1875-1881), standing at the east side of the monument, holding a blue ribbon, while Miss Helen Frances PEAY, granddaughter of Gordon Neill PEAY (1819KY-1876AR), first captain of the Guards (Mayor 1859-1860), stood on the south side holding a white ribbon. At a signal, Misses FLETCHER and PEAY pulled the ribbons while the band played "Dixie" and the old veterans assembled shouted at the tops of their voices. The screen fell away, with a shower of roses, the tall granite shaft stood revealed. (View at right)
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
SOURCE: Pris Weathers' arkansasties.com:
Arkansas Gazette – 1899
November 14, 2010
The Gazette of Twenty Years Ago
By Fred W. Allsopp – Business Manager of the Gazette
Time brings changes and many have been wrought on this newspaper in the course of the past two decades. A comparison of the Gazette of 1899 with the Gazette of today forcibly illustrates the paper's progress.
W.B. Worthen, who was one of the leading bankers of Arkansas, was president of the company; Col. Robert A. Little, a wealthy panter, was vice president; and these gentlemen, together with Col. John G. Fletcher, president of the German National Bank and once a candidate for governor; Judge J.W. House, formerly United States District Attorney and for many years Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee; William M. Kavanaugh, who after serving as president of the Southern Trust Company and filled an unexpired term as United States Senator; and Gordon N. Peay, now president of the W.B. Worthen Company, formed the Board of Directors of the pubishing company. Mr. Peay was also treasurer. With the exception of Judge Kavanaugh, the directors were not newspaper men, and they did very little "directing," but finer and able men never sat around a director's table.
Death: in Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Father: Major Nicholas PEAY b: 28 APR 1784 Virginia.
Mother: Juilet Mildred NEILL b: 26 MAR 1793 Frederick county, Virginia.
Marriage: Susan "Sue" Nelson CREASE b: 27 FEB 1836 Alexandria, Fairfax county, Virginia.
Married: 22 FEB 1854 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Known Children
Jane "Jeanie" T PEAY b: 5 JAN 1855 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Mollie Crease PEAY b: 25 JUN 1856 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Sue PEAY b: 1858 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Elizabeth "Bessie" PEAY b: 3 FEB 1863 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Nicholas PEAY b: 28 APR 1865 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Gordon Neill PEAY b: 3 JAN 1868 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Some report Caroline Peyton PEAY b: 1873 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas is also their child.
The above, 06/01/12, corrected biography by Bill.
Veteran: Civil war (CSA)
h/o Susan Nelson CREASE, 7th born.
Her father suggested naming their new church, Christ Church, honoring their church in Alexandria, Virginia, while being built in early 1840's.
Birth: 4th of eleven known children in Nicholsonville, Jassmine county, Kentucky.
Removed with family when not yet six years old, from Shelbyville, Shelby county, Kentucky, by boat, down the Cumberland, Ohio and Mississippi rivers to White river in Arkansas Territory, then up the Arkansas river bank because of low river stage, to Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas Territory, which had a river crossing for the Saint Louis to Texas Red river trail and Military Road where ferry was once operated by Edmund Hogan (1780NC-1828AR) also a veteran from War of 1812 ~ ~ becoming one of the earlest, among the few prominent territorial pioneersin later part of 1825. Gen Hogan was stabbed to death three years later, year following shooting death of Maj Isaac Watkins in 1827, and four years after capitol was moved from Arkansas Post.
Thirty years later purchased forty acres of land in Pulaski county, Arkansas, 1 MAR 1855.
Mayor of Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas, 1859 to 1860.
Census: 1860, age 39 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas with wife, brother & three kids.
Purchased the Lambert J Reardon home following his wife's 1860 demise, then raised their family in it.
Reportedly, a long term clerk of Pulaski Chancery Court.
He served as Arkansas': Receiver of Real estate bank of Arkansas.
1860 September 27: Receipt, John QUINELLEY, Treasurer of Arkansas, Little Rock, to Gordon N. PEAY, receiver in Chancery of the assets of the Real Estate Bank of the State of Arkansas.
First Captain of the famous Capitol Guards, aka Company A, 6th Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, Confederate States Army, first under Maj Gen William Joesph HARDEE, "Old Reliable" and in the Arkansas Brigade of Gen. Patrick CLEBURNE's Division, becoming a Lieutenant Colonel fighting with the Confederate Army of Tennessee in some of its battles east of the Mississippi River, as of October 1861 for two years, including Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, Tunnel Hill, the Atlanta Campaign, Spring Hill, Franklin, Nashville and Bentonville, until end of the conflict.
"Capitol Guards", Company A, 6th Regiment Arkansas Infantry Volunteers, Confederate States Army under Gordon N PEAY, which was:
"....recruited from the "first families" of Little Rock, as well as prominent merchants and skilled artisans. There were a few St. Johns' College students in the company as well. You'd think that a company of "blue bloods" wouldn't be as feisty as the typical company of Arkansas farm-boys, but the Capitol Guards built quite a reputation during the war, as tenacious fighters and seasoned campaigners. The survivors of the company were among the "movers and shakers" of Little Rock for the rest of the 19th century.", as once written by Bryan HOWERTON on the Arkansas Civil War Board.
Gordon N PEAY served the seventh Arkansas governor, Harris FLANAGIN (1817NJ-1974AR), as Arkansas' Adjutant General later 1863 and 1864.
Applied for and received a Federal pardon 1 NOV 1865
Census: 1870, age 50 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas with wife & five kids.
1911 ceremony to dedicate a monument to the memory of the Capitol Guards, whose first leader was Capt Gordon Neill PEAY, to wit:
"LEST WE FORGET"
During unveiling ceremonies, Fay HEMPSTEAD read poem entitled "At Camp Shaver," in which high tribute was paid to the "Capital Guards". Also included was Miss Mary FLETCHER (Mrs. Leonard H. DRENNAN) (1890AR-1982MD), daughter of Colonel John Gould FLETCHER (1831AR-1906AR), (3 June 1861 Captain, Age 30, Capital Guards. Elected May 8,1862; Severely wounded in thigh at Murfreesboro, Tennessee 31 December 1862; 6th Arkansas Infantry, Company A, and Mayor 1875-1881), standing at the east side of the monument, holding a blue ribbon, while Miss Helen Frances PEAY, granddaughter of Gordon Neill PEAY (1819KY-1876AR), first captain of the Guards (Mayor 1859-1860), stood on the south side holding a white ribbon. At a signal, Misses FLETCHER and PEAY pulled the ribbons while the band played "Dixie" and the old veterans assembled shouted at the tops of their voices. The screen fell away, with a shower of roses, the tall granite shaft stood revealed. (View at right)
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
SOURCE: Pris Weathers' arkansasties.com:
Arkansas Gazette – 1899
November 14, 2010
The Gazette of Twenty Years Ago
By Fred W. Allsopp – Business Manager of the Gazette
Time brings changes and many have been wrought on this newspaper in the course of the past two decades. A comparison of the Gazette of 1899 with the Gazette of today forcibly illustrates the paper's progress.
W.B. Worthen, who was one of the leading bankers of Arkansas, was president of the company; Col. Robert A. Little, a wealthy panter, was vice president; and these gentlemen, together with Col. John G. Fletcher, president of the German National Bank and once a candidate for governor; Judge J.W. House, formerly United States District Attorney and for many years Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee; William M. Kavanaugh, who after serving as president of the Southern Trust Company and filled an unexpired term as United States Senator; and Gordon N. Peay, now president of the W.B. Worthen Company, formed the Board of Directors of the pubishing company. Mr. Peay was also treasurer. With the exception of Judge Kavanaugh, the directors were not newspaper men, and they did very little "directing," but finer and able men never sat around a director's table.
Death: in Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Father: Major Nicholas PEAY b: 28 APR 1784 Virginia.
Mother: Juilet Mildred NEILL b: 26 MAR 1793 Frederick county, Virginia.
Marriage: Susan "Sue" Nelson CREASE b: 27 FEB 1836 Alexandria, Fairfax county, Virginia.
Married: 22 FEB 1854 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Known Children
Jane "Jeanie" T PEAY b: 5 JAN 1855 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Mollie Crease PEAY b: 25 JUN 1856 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Sue PEAY b: 1858 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Elizabeth "Bessie" PEAY b: 3 FEB 1863 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Nicholas PEAY b: 28 APR 1865 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Gordon Neill PEAY b: 3 JAN 1868 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Some report Caroline Peyton PEAY b: 1873 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas is also their child.
The above, 06/01/12, corrected biography by Bill.
h/o Susan Nelson CREASE, 7th born.
Her father suggested naming their new church, Christ Church, honoring their church in Alexandria, Virginia, while being built in early 1840's.
Birth: 4th of eleven known children in Nicholsonville, Jassmine county, Kentucky.
Removed with family when not yet six years old, from Shelbyville, Shelby county, Kentucky, by boat, down the Cumberland, Ohio and Mississippi rivers to White river in Arkansas Territory, then up the Arkansas river bank because of low river stage, to Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas Territory, which had a river crossing for the Saint Louis to Texas Red river trail and Military Road where ferry was once operated by Edmund Hogan (1780NC-1828AR) also a veteran from War of 1812 ~ ~ becoming one of the earlest, among the few prominent territorial pioneersin later part of 1825. Gen Hogan was stabbed to death three years later, year following shooting death of Maj Isaac Watkins in 1827, and four years after capitol was moved from Arkansas Post.
Thirty years later purchased forty acres of land in Pulaski county, Arkansas, 1 MAR 1855.
Mayor of Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas, 1859 to 1860.
Census: 1860, age 39 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas with wife, brother & three kids.
Purchased the Lambert J Reardon home following his wife's 1860 demise, then raised their family in it.
Reportedly, a long term clerk of Pulaski Chancery Court.
He served as Arkansas': Receiver of Real estate bank of Arkansas.
1860 September 27: Receipt, John QUINELLEY, Treasurer of Arkansas, Little Rock, to Gordon N. PEAY, receiver in Chancery of the assets of the Real Estate Bank of the State of Arkansas.
First Captain of the famous Capitol Guards, aka Company A, 6th Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, Confederate States Army, first under Maj Gen William Joesph HARDEE, "Old Reliable" and in the Arkansas Brigade of Gen. Patrick CLEBURNE's Division, becoming a Lieutenant Colonel fighting with the Confederate Army of Tennessee in some of its battles east of the Mississippi River, as of October 1861 for two years, including Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, Tunnel Hill, the Atlanta Campaign, Spring Hill, Franklin, Nashville and Bentonville, until end of the conflict.
"Capitol Guards", Company A, 6th Regiment Arkansas Infantry Volunteers, Confederate States Army under Gordon N PEAY, which was:
"....recruited from the "first families" of Little Rock, as well as prominent merchants and skilled artisans. There were a few St. Johns' College students in the company as well. You'd think that a company of "blue bloods" wouldn't be as feisty as the typical company of Arkansas farm-boys, but the Capitol Guards built quite a reputation during the war, as tenacious fighters and seasoned campaigners. The survivors of the company were among the "movers and shakers" of Little Rock for the rest of the 19th century.", as once written by Bryan HOWERTON on the Arkansas Civil War Board.
Gordon N PEAY served the seventh Arkansas governor, Harris FLANAGIN (1817NJ-1974AR), as Arkansas' Adjutant General later 1863 and 1864.
Applied for and received a Federal pardon 1 NOV 1865
Census: 1870, age 50 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas with wife & five kids.
1911 ceremony to dedicate a monument to the memory of the Capitol Guards, whose first leader was Capt Gordon Neill PEAY, to wit:
"LEST WE FORGET"
During unveiling ceremonies, Fay HEMPSTEAD read poem entitled "At Camp Shaver," in which high tribute was paid to the "Capital Guards". Also included was Miss Mary FLETCHER (Mrs. Leonard H. DRENNAN) (1890AR-1982MD), daughter of Colonel John Gould FLETCHER (1831AR-1906AR), (3 June 1861 Captain, Age 30, Capital Guards. Elected May 8,1862; Severely wounded in thigh at Murfreesboro, Tennessee 31 December 1862; 6th Arkansas Infantry, Company A, and Mayor 1875-1881), standing at the east side of the monument, holding a blue ribbon, while Miss Helen Frances PEAY, granddaughter of Gordon Neill PEAY (1819KY-1876AR), first captain of the Guards (Mayor 1859-1860), stood on the south side holding a white ribbon. At a signal, Misses FLETCHER and PEAY pulled the ribbons while the band played "Dixie" and the old veterans assembled shouted at the tops of their voices. The screen fell away, with a shower of roses, the tall granite shaft stood revealed. (View at right)
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
SOURCE: Pris Weathers' arkansasties.com:
Arkansas Gazette – 1899
November 14, 2010
The Gazette of Twenty Years Ago
By Fred W. Allsopp – Business Manager of the Gazette
Time brings changes and many have been wrought on this newspaper in the course of the past two decades. A comparison of the Gazette of 1899 with the Gazette of today forcibly illustrates the paper's progress.
W.B. Worthen, who was one of the leading bankers of Arkansas, was president of the company; Col. Robert A. Little, a wealthy panter, was vice president; and these gentlemen, together with Col. John G. Fletcher, president of the German National Bank and once a candidate for governor; Judge J.W. House, formerly United States District Attorney and for many years Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee; William M. Kavanaugh, who after serving as president of the Southern Trust Company and filled an unexpired term as United States Senator; and Gordon N. Peay, now president of the W.B. Worthen Company, formed the Board of Directors of the pubishing company. Mr. Peay was also treasurer. With the exception of Judge Kavanaugh, the directors were not newspaper men, and they did very little "directing," but finer and able men never sat around a director's table.
Death: in Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Father: Major Nicholas PEAY b: 28 APR 1784 Virginia.
Mother: Juilet Mildred NEILL b: 26 MAR 1793 Frederick county, Virginia.
Marriage: Susan "Sue" Nelson CREASE b: 27 FEB 1836 Alexandria, Fairfax county, Virginia.
Married: 22 FEB 1854 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Known Children
Jane "Jeanie" T PEAY b: 5 JAN 1855 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Mollie Crease PEAY b: 25 JUN 1856 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Sue PEAY b: 1858 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Elizabeth "Bessie" PEAY b: 3 FEB 1863 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Nicholas PEAY b: 28 APR 1865 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Gordon Neill PEAY b: 3 JAN 1868 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Some report Caroline Peyton PEAY b: 1873 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas is also their child.
The above, 06/01/12, corrected biography by Bill.
Bio by: The Silent Forgotten
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