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Francis M. Stone was born in Howard County, Ark., October, 1844. His father, William Stone, was born in 1792, in North Carolina, and died January 7, 1859. His mother, Miss Sarah J. Huddleston, was a native of Tennessee, born in 1804 and died in 1874. They were married in 1819 and had eleven children, of whom only James, Francis M., and Sarah J. are living. The family moved to Arkansas in 1839, settling in what is now Howard County. The subject of our sketch passed his youth there, enlisting in 1862 in Monroe's regiment, Arkansas Cavalry, and serving as a private until the end of the war. He was neither wounded nor captured at any time. At the close of the war he devoted his attention to agriculture, buying 200 acres of fine land in 1867. January 10, 1867, he married Miss Mary E. Hester, a daughter of William and Betty Blackwell Hester, of Georgia. She was born February 17, 1851, dying July 10, 1877, and leaving six children, of whom Letty L. is dead. William, Henry, Adolphus A., Lucinda J. and Walter are living. In January, 1878, Mr. Stone married Mrs. Sarah Lane, of Arkansas, who was born in 1852, and is living at the present time. Mrs. Stone is a member of the Methodist Church.