John Hewett

SOURCE: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889
Contributed by Michael Brown
18 Oct 1998

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John Hewett was born in Tuscaloosa County, Ala., in February, 1819, and is a son of George and Sophia (Dockery) Hewett. The father came to America from Holland when twelve years old, and first lived in the Carolinas. He afterward grew to manhood on a farm in Tennessee, where he was educated, after which he lived in Alabama. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. His death occurred in Alabama about 1854. The mother spent her early life in Tennessee, and was there married to Mr. Hewett. She died in 1853, and was the mother of eleven children: A. J., John, George, Israel, Eliza and L. R. now living, and Mary (Phillip), Calvin, Joseph, and W. H. H. deceased. John Hewett lived with his parents upon the Alabama farm until his marriage, in 1845, to Rebecca Johnson, a native of Alabama, and a daughter of Jacob and Rebecca Johnson, who went to Alabama from South Carolina. To Mr. and Mrs. Hewett ten children were born; those living are William H. H., Benjamin F., Laura, Almeda, John M., Cytha; those deceased were named Lucinda, Zada, Manda and Julia. After his marriage Mr. Hewett continued to live in Alabama for five years, and then removed by water to Texas. He lived five years in Washington County, Tex., and then moved to Falls County, Tex., and lived there ten years. Then he moved to Sebastian County, Ark., and has lived here for twenty years, successfully engaged in farming, and has 153½ acres of land, sixty of which he has under cultivation. In politics he is a Democrat, and during the war served in the Federal army for fifteen months, or until discharged at the close of the war. Mr. Hewett lost his first wife in this county in 1873, and he afterward married Eliza Beveans, who died November 22, 1887.