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Goodspeed Biographies of Scott Co., AR, pg 398-433:
Dr. Elijah Leming
Dr. Elijah Leming is an old and respected physician of Waldron,
Ark., and for many years has also been connected prominently with the
farming interests of this region. He was born in Tennessee in 1819, being
the second of five children born to John and Sarah (Mitchell) Leming,
both of whom are descendants of people who settled in Tennessee when it
was a part of North Carolina, this being about 1770. The paternal great-
grandfather was a private soldier in the French Army, and was at Quebec
when he was captured by Gen. Wolfe. He afterward went to New Jersey, where
he was married to Elizabeth Fyan, and moved with her to the western county
of North Carolina, now Tennessee. Vinet Fyan commanded a fort near
Newport, Tenn., and was killed near there by the Indians, on a creek
still known a. Fyan's Creek, in Rathnard County, N.C. Dr. Leming's
grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and two uncles were
in the War of 1812, and were with Jackson at New Orleans. John Leming and
his wife died when their son, Elijah, was a child, and he was brought up
by his paternal uncle, Jesse Leming. At the age of sixteen years he left
him and enlisted in the United States Army, taking part in the Cherokee
War of1836-37. He was married in 1840 to Miss Mary Ann Pierce, and seven
years later moved to Texas, in the southeast part of which State he
resided for twelve years. Here he began the practice of medicine, having
commenced the study of this science before leaving Tennessee, and after
coming to Arkansas in June, 1858, he followed this occupation for many
years. In 1863 he entered the Federal Army, and until the close of the
war served in the Fourth and Second Arkansas Infantry, Company I. During
the war his home was burned, but at the close he returned, rebuilt, and,
in connection with his practice, began farming. Soon after this he went
to St. Louis, where he studied in the Eclectic School, graduating soon
after. In 1866 he was elected to the State Legislature, and in that
session was one of five to vote for the Howard Amendment, which was one
of the clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States. After this measure had been rejected, and during the
reconstruction period, he refused to accept office, for the reason that
he did not want to have his name associated with the disfranchisement of
neighbors and friends, nor did he believe the Freedmen competent to vote
intelligently. Since that time, in 1872, he made the race for State
Senator, but was decided out of the State by contested election. For many
years he has been president of the County Medical Society. He has always
been an active advocate of free schools, and has been a school director
for years. His wife died in July 1870, at Galena, Kas., she having borne
him five children: Julia Ann, Nancy (who is deceased), A. G. (a lawyer of
Waldron), Isaac R. (a physician of Waldron), and Elijah (a physician of
Dardanelle). Dr. Leming was married in 1883 to Mrs. Gillie Winchester,
widow of John Winchester, of Tennessee, who died while serving in the
Federal Army in Missouri, during the Rebellion. The Doctor owns 400 acres
of fine farming land in this county, and has 150 acres under cultivation,
the balance being fair land covered with good timber. The Doctor is a
quiet, kindly and charitable old gentleman, and, besides having the
confidence and respect of his follow-men, he also has their warmest
regard.
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