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'''George Franklin Baucum''' was the president of the [[Bank of Little Rock]] in the late nineteenth century. | '''George Franklin Baucum''' was the president of the [[Bank of Little Rock]] in the late nineteenth century. | ||
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| + | Baucum was born to Daniel and Kathryn Baucum on February 1, 1837, in St. Charles, Missouri. He spent part of his childhood in Marshall County, Mississippi, before moving with his family to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1851 and Searcy, Arkansas, in 1853. There he became a grocer. At the outbreak of the [[Civil War]] Baucum organized a company for the Confederate cause, then rose to the rank of colonel. Baucum fought at the battles of Perryville, Tullahoma, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold Gap, and battled Sherman on his March to the Sea. | ||
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| + | At the Battle of Atlanta he was shot in the face and badly wounded. Thereafter he served as a recruiting officer. He surrendered to federal forces at Grenada, Mississippi, in June 1865. After the war Baucum returned to his grocery business in Searcy. In 1876 he moved the business to [[Little Rock]]. The grocery was supported by a plantation ten miles to the east at the present site of the town of [[Baucum]]. | ||
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| + | Baucum died on July 29, 1905. He married twice, the first time to Glovenia B. Critz. Shortly after the death of his first wife in 1874, Baucum married Rebecca D. McRae. He had three daughters, one with his first wife and two with his second. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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| + | *United Daughters of the Confederacy, ''United Daughters of the Confederacy'' (Turner Publishing Company, 1999), 49. | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
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Revision as of 10:08, 17 April 2010
George Franklin Baucum was the president of the Bank of Little Rock in the late nineteenth century.
Baucum was born to Daniel and Kathryn Baucum on February 1, 1837, in St. Charles, Missouri. He spent part of his childhood in Marshall County, Mississippi, before moving with his family to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1851 and Searcy, Arkansas, in 1853. There he became a grocer. At the outbreak of the Civil War Baucum organized a company for the Confederate cause, then rose to the rank of colonel. Baucum fought at the battles of Perryville, Tullahoma, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold Gap, and battled Sherman on his March to the Sea.
At the Battle of Atlanta he was shot in the face and badly wounded. Thereafter he served as a recruiting officer. He surrendered to federal forces at Grenada, Mississippi, in June 1865. After the war Baucum returned to his grocery business in Searcy. In 1876 he moved the business to Little Rock. The grocery was supported by a plantation ten miles to the east at the present site of the town of Baucum.
Baucum died on July 29, 1905. He married twice, the first time to Glovenia B. Critz. Shortly after the death of his first wife in 1874, Baucum married Rebecca D. McRae. He had three daughters, one with his first wife and two with his second.
References
- United Daughters of the Confederacy, United Daughters of the Confederacy (Turner Publishing Company, 1999), 49.
