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Thomas M. Mitchell was born in Crawford County, Ark., in 1857, and is a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Stewart) Mitchell. The father was born in Middle Tennessee in 1813, when young immigrated to Jefferson County, Ark., there married, and afterward moved to Crawford County, locating six miles east of the county seat. About 1878 he moved to Johnson County, Ark. He served as justice of the peace for many years previous to the Rebellion, and died in 1881. His wife was born in Virginia in 1822, and died in 1873. She was the mother of nine children, five of whom are living: Robert M.; Mary, wife of W. L. Couch; Thomas M.; Nancy, widow of P. M. Huston, and J. Newton, operator in the Little Rock Railway office. Thomas M. lived upon the farm until seventeen, and then attended school at Hindsville, Ark. In 1876 he began to learn the marble cutter’s trade at Bentonville, Ark., and worked as an apprentice three years. In the spring of 1880 Mr. Mitchell commenced business upon his own responsibility at Ozark, Ark., and in 1883 went to Bentonville, where he remained until March, 1886. He then returned to his native county, locating in Van Buren, where he is the only marble cutter of the town. He is a skillful workman, and has the monopoly of the trade of Van Buren. November 11, 1883, he married Miss Alice Mitchell, daughter of Zacharia Mitchell, and a native of Missouri. To them three children have been born: Claude, Annie and Charles. Mr. Mitchell is a Master Mason and a Democrat. Mrs. Mitchell belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.