____________________________________________________________________________ Morgan Cryer Mobley was born June 5, 1831 in Caddo Township, Clark County, Arkansas. His father David Mobley came to Arkansas a single man from Tennessee following military service during the War of 1812. He was acompanied by an uncle named John Mobley according to family history. Tradition also says they parted at Arkansas Post and David Mobley did not hear from his uncle again. He settled in Clark County and in 1817 married Barbara Cryer the daughter of Morgan Cryer. In 1836, David Mobley settled between Antoine and present day Delight, Arkansas in Pike County. He died in 1859. The children of David Mobley and Barbara Cryer included William, David, Morgan Cryer, Sarah Ann, Julia Ann, Leanna, Ann Mariah and at least three others who died in childhood or infancy. Morgan Cryer Mobley married Mary Jane Kirby about 1857 in Pike County, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Joseph Lytal Kirby and Rachel Patterson Walton who arrived in Pike County, Arkansas in late 1850. The Kirbys had nine children. They were William Lytal, Joseph Fosgate, John C., Mary Jane, James Walton, Joshua Marshal, Elizabeth E., Caroline, and Idella C. Morgan Cryer Mobley and Mary Jane Kirby had one child, a daughter named Myra Alice Mobley, before his death on April 16, 1859. He was buried in the Old Lamb Cemetery between Antoine and Delight. Mary Jane (Kirby) Mobley became the second wife of William Harrison Preston of Murfreesboro. ____________________________________________________________________________ The Gems, Pike County, Arkansas: Winter 1996, Volume 7, Number 1, page 1. ____________________________________________________________________________ David Kelley 2002