Ashley County
Biography of Samuel Bascom Kinard
"Centennial History of Arkansas," 1922
Samuel Bascom Kinard, whose death occurred in 1919, was long closely with the industrial development of his section of the state, being engaged in the operation of a sawmill in Ashley county at the time of his death. He was born in Columbia county, Arkansas, July 14, 1879, and was a son of Robert and Margaret (Kelly) Kinard, who are now residents of El Dorado. The son was but a small boy when his parents removed to this city and his education was acquired here in the public schools. He possessed natural mechanical skill and ingenuity and in very early life identified himself with the sawmill business. At the age of seventeen years he was a mill foreman and served in that capacity up to the time of his demise, being killed in the mill which he had built on his own account in Ashley county. He was in some way caught in the machinery and sustained injuries which caused his death on the 23d of March, 1919.
Mr. Kinard was married on the 23d of November, 1904, to Miss Lena Renfroe of Ouachita county, who was born near Camden, and is a daughter of William C. Renfroe, one of the prominent farmers of that county. Mr. and Mrs. Kinard became parents of three children: Corine, Early and Clifford. Mrs. Kinard is a member of the Baptist church and has many friends in El Dorado. Mr. Kinard belonged to the Masonic fraternity and the Woodmen of the World and at one time was Identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and he lived his life according to its teachings, trying at all times closely to follow the golden rule.
