From the Biographical Appendix, History of Arkansas

John T. Appleby, farmer and stock raiser, is the son of Hezekiah and Margaret (Herron) Appleby, natives of Georgia and Kentucky, respectively, the father born in 1797 and the mother in 1793.  They were married in 1819, and afterward settled in Bedford County,  where they remained until 1830, and then came to Arkansas, locating in Washington County. 

 During the war, the father went to Texas, on account of trouble at home, leaving his wife, and in 1864 her house was burned, and she mounted a horse and rode to Texas only to find that her husband was dead.  The following year, she, too, passed away.  He was a Democrat in politics and both were members of the Old School Presbyterian Church. He was an extensive farmer and stock raiser.  

Of their eight children, four sons and two daughters, all the sons served in the Confederate army.  The third child, John T., was born August 17, 1826, in Bedford County, Tennessee; was reared on a farm, receiving a fair English education and ran his father farm until twenty-nine years of age.  In 1855 he married Miss Almira Stanfield, who was born on the farm where the subject now lives, April 23, 1836.  In 1863 he enlisted in Capt. Brown's company, Brooks' regiment Arkansas Cavalry, Confederate States Army, and October 1863, he was taken prisoner and was confined at Springfield, MO, until the close of  the war.  

He then returned to farming and is now the owner of 200 acres of land, 125 of which are under cultivation.  All this he has made  since the the war, having lost all his property during that eventful struggle.  He and his wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, he being an elder of the same for the last twenty-one years.   Mr. and Mrs. Appleby are the parents of five children:  Annice L., Charles W., 

Ida M., George and Bertha A.