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Daniel Tollett was born March 5, 1818, in Marion County, Tenn., and is now a prominent farmer in Holly Creek Township, Howard County, Ark. His father, Mark Tollett, and his mother, Miss Cynthia Hooper, were both natives of Tennessee, and were married in that State about 1816. They had six children: Daniel, Ennis, John, Wesley, Margaret, Sarah, and of these only Daniel, Ennis and Wesley are now living. Mr. Tollett passed his youth in Tennessee and Arkansas, leaving home at the age of twenty-one to engage in agricultural pursuits for himself. His parents were members of the Baptist Church, the father a prominent Democrat, and his grandfather, John Tollett, was a Baptist minister in Southern Tennessee, going to Arkansas about 1830, and settling in what was then a dense wilderness. In 1836 the subject of our sketch enrolled in a Hempstead County Company, serving in a local Indian war. He married Miss Margaret Tollett in 1857. Mrs. Tollett was a daughter of Elijah and Rebecca Lynch Tollett, was born November 15, 1844, and is still living. They have had eleven children, of whom Elijah died October, 1864; Mary J., Eliza, Malinda, Nancy A., Francis, Florence, Henry, Panina, Daniel and Priscilla are living. During the Civil War, Mr. Toilet belonged to the Home Guards. Soon after his marriage he settled a farm of 240 acres in Howard County, where he now lives, having added sixty acres to his valuable estate since the first purchase. At one time Mr. Tollett was an active politician, and is now a prominent Democrat. Mrs. Tollett is a member of the Free-Will Baptist Church.