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Francis M. Temple, farmer, was born June 2, 1830, in Williamson County, Tenn., and is a son of Roderick and Mary (Lee) Temple, natives of Virginia. The father immigrated to Tennessee along when a young man, and located in Williamson County, and after his marriage moved to Davidson County, where he died in 1849. The mother went to Tennessee by wagon when a girl. She bore Mr. Temple eleven children, three of whom are living: Narcissus, Francis M. and William. Hubbard, James, Alexander, Mary, Eliza, Maria, Frederick and one other are deceased. Mrs. Temple died in Arkansas July 30, 1884, aged eighty-five. The maternal grandparents of our subject were early settlers of Tennessee, and there passed their lives. Francis M. Temple was reared upon a farm in Tennessee, and attended school but six months. He had a natural gift for mechanics, but has engaged in farming principally. After his father’s death he cared for the family, and September 28, 1854, married Mary Roselle, who bore him two children, James M. and William A. Mrs. Temple died June 15, 1857, and March 29, 1863, he married Minerva Lewis, daughter of Henry and Jane A. (Hobaugh) Lewis, natives of Kentucky and Missouri, respectively. Mrs. Temple was born in Texas County, Mo., and when eight years of age came to Arkansas. She is the mother of seven children: Mary T., Francis M., Charles H., Sarah E., Narcissus I., Thomas Ivy and Edna. Mr. Temple enlisted in the United States army in 1862, joining Company D, First Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry, and being discharged at Fayetteville in 1865. Among other battles he was present at Prairie Grove, Fayetteville and Elkhorn. Mr. Temple came to Crawford County in 1850, settling near Flat Rock, and three years later moved near Ollivar Spring, where he lived three years. He then lived two miles north of this place for several years, and then settled where he now resides. He owns 160 acres, seventy-five of which are cultivated. He is a public-spirited man, and has given a lot on which to erect a school building. Himself and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a Republican, and a member of the G. A. R.