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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Ashley County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Joshua B. Cone, who is numbered among the leading planters and mill men of Ashley County, Ark., was born in Alabama, January 24, 1852, but was educated in the common country schools of Ashley County. His parents were James B., native of Georgia, and Malinda (Dean) Cone, native of Alabama, the father born on October 12, 1808, and the mother in January, 1818. They were married in 1836, and to them were born nine children: Washington, Lucinda (deceased), James (deceased), Sarah (married S. Medlock, and resides in Texas), Lafayette (married Miss Mildred Allen), John R. (married Miss Julia Pistole, who died, and later he married Miss Mattie Foreman), Nannie (married George Newton, who died in three weeks, and afterward Alex McRae), and William C. (who married Theodocia Bullock). The father in a farmer by pursuit, and carries this on at the present time. He resides with his son John. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Bearhouse Lodge No. 209. and is a Master Mason, and a man respected and esteemed for his many good qualities. He emigrated from Alabama to Arkansas in the fall of 1852, and settled in Ashley County, where he now resides. He is a
member of the Methodist Church, and his wife, who died in July, 1880, was also a member of that church. Joshua B. Cone remained at home and assisted on the farm until December 18, 1872, when he was united in marriage to Miss Emma Ragan, a native of Arkansas, born November, 1853, and the daughter of Erasmus and Elizabeth E. Ragan. Five interesting children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Cone: Alexander R., Andrew E., Joshua E. (deceased), Howard M., and Lizzie. Mr. Cone has always followed agricultural pursuits and started out for himself with two cows and a mule. He is at present the owner of 620 acres of good land, has sixty-five acres under cultivation, and has his farm well stocked. His gin has all the late improvements. The Cone family is of English and Scotch descent. Mr. and Mrs. Cone are church members, he of the Methodist and she of the Baptist denomination. They are good citizens and are highly respected.

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