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Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe, the widow of Stephen Rowe, was born in Georgia, in 1827. Her father, Gilford Joiner, a native of Georgia, was a farmer by occupation, and was married in 1825 to Lelitia Riggins, of the same State as himself. They were the parents of five children: Elizabeth, Simeon, Mary A., Lelitia D. and Winfred M. Gilford Joiner served in the War of Georgia, and died in 1838. The grandfather of Mrs. Rowe, Thomas Riggins, first saw the light of day in South Carolina, in 1786. He was a farmer, and died in 1857; his wife, whose birth occurred in 1791, surviving until 1852. Mrs. Rowe was married to Stephen Rowe in 1862, and they became the parents of three children, two boys and one girl: Jessie D., George F. and Ella E., now deceased. Moving from Georgia to Florida, in 1862, Stephen Rowe engaged in farming, and also in school-teaching, for seven years, in 1870 emigrating to Arkansas, where he entered eighty acres of land, and on which he lived until his death in 1881. He was a member of the Masonic order, and a minister of the Baptist Church for some forty years, his own life clearly demonstrating the truths which he so vividly preached. Mrs. Rowe now owns eighty acres of land, with about twenty-five acres under cultivation, and on which she raises fruit of all kinds. George Rowe, in 1887, began studying for the ministry, that noblest of all callings. He is an exemplary and promising young man, and bids fair to attain to prominence as one of the most useful ministers of the Gospel in this section of the country.