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R. C. Dew is one of the sturdy, honest and independent farmers of Ashley County, Ark., and is now actively engaged in tilling his farm, which comprises 113 acres of land, the fifty acres which are under cultivation being devoted to the raising of cotton, corn, oats, etc., the yield of the former being one-half bale to the acre and corn twenty bushels. He was born in Lee County, Miss., February 5, 1853, and when about seven years of age was brought to Arkansas by his father, and has here lived continuously ever since. He received a common-school education, and upon attaining his majority he began farming for himself, and after renting land for two years, he bought 170 acres of land, thirty-five of which were improved. After making this place his home for four years he sold out and bought his present property, which has become under his able management, one of the valuable farms of the county. Miss Maggie J. Nutt, a daughter of William Nutt, of Ashley County, Ark., became his wife, November 27, 1873, and in time a family of six children gathered about their hearthstone: Ida, Sallie, Lindsey, Ambrose, Jessie and Carroll. Mr. and Mrs. Dew are members of the Baptist Church, and in his political views he is a stanch Democrat. He is one of seven children born to the marriage of John C. and Mary (Varnan) Dew. His parents were married in Mississippi, about 1842, in which State they made their home for some seventeen years prior to their removal to Arkansas. The father died in Ashley County, in 1871, an earnest member of the Baptist Church, but his widow still survives him.