James Gipson

Died, at his home near Sylarville, Feb. 3, 1893, Mr. James Gipson. He had just recovered sufficiently to superintend his home affairs from a long and painful illness....Mr. Gipson was one of the earliest settlers of Eastern Arkansas, moving here early in the forties he endured many of the privations and dangers incident to a pioneer life... He came here in 1844 from Tennessee...and has been one of our most prosperous farmers. ....He joined the Missionary Baptist Church seventeen years ago under the ministration of Rev. Wm. Pasley . Thus ends his eventful life of seventy-two years leaving an invalid wife, a single daughter, two married sons, two married daughters and many friends.