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Goodspeed, 1889
J. K. Baskin is well known throughout this region, for he was born here in 1852, and as a youth and man he at all times made numerous friends. His parents, J. M. and Melissa (Laster) Baskin, were born in Tennessee, and came to Arkansas with their parents in 1830 and 1831 respectively, their union taking place here. It resulted in the birth of the following children: Nancy C., William M. (who died in 1863), Abram L., Hester Ann, Octavia F. (wife of William Davis, a farmer of Scott County), Manisia, J. K., Mary M., Robert M., John C., Minerva (who died in 1861), Darthula (who married Robert Gillian, lives in Sebastian County), and Frank C. The father of these children removed to Texas in 1864, and there remained until the termination of the war, when he returned to his family in Johnson County, Ark., and hero has since tilled the soil, being now the owner of 220 acres of land in Horsehead Township, ninety acres of which are under cultivation.

J. K. Baskin, the immediate subject of this sketch, was married in 1879 to Miss Minerva Yandell, daughter of Thomas Yandell, by whom he has two boys and two girls: Virgil Q., Chester D., Bonnie A. and Maud M. He has a fertile and well tilled farm of 170 acres, seventy five acres of which are in a good state of cultivation. He owns a half interest in a good cotton gin with J. M. Laster, the gin being on Mr. Laster's land.

He had fairly good school advantages in boyhood, and gives liberally of his means in the support of worthy enterprises of all kinds, being an equally liberal contributor to churches. He is a Democrat, but is not however, an enthusiastic politician. His wife is an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.

Lisa Hamilton submitted the above data from Goodspeeds; she did so to help others, is not researching the above person or families mentioned therein.

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