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Thomas J. Hadley, merchant and farmer, of Franklin County, is a son of John and Martha (Meredith) Hadley, and was born in Louisiana May 8, 1858. John Hadley was born in 1823 in the State of Alabama, where he was reared and educated. He went to Arkansas in 1844, and four years later removed to Louisiana, where he engaged in farming until 1859; he then located in Sevier County, Ark., where he lived until 1869, when he removed to his present home near Ozark, Franklin County. He is one of the prominent men of his community, and during the war was appointed by the Confederate Government to look after the people at home in Sevier County. Mrs. Martha Hadley, who was a native of Alabama, died in 1870, the mother of ten children, viz.: Nancy J., Mary F., Harriet (deceased), Martha (deceased), Riley J., Thomas J., Lawrence J., James (deceased), Emma and Sarah C. In 1872 John Hadley married Agnes Blaylock, nee Miller, of Franklin County, who was the mother of five children by her first husband. To this union were born three children, viz.: Cener, Minie and Lewis B. Thomas J. Hadley was reared and educated in Franklin County. In September, 1878, he married Hattie B. Fletcher, a native of Indiana, and a daughter of Calvin G. Fletcher, who located in Franklin County in 1877. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, where Mr. Hadley is class-leader, and takes an active interest in all church work; he is superintendent of the Sunday-school, and is president of the Hurricane Township Sunday-school Association.