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Mack P. D. Watkins, a prominent planter of Mountain Township, Howard County, Ark., was born in Calhoun County, Ala., April 15, 1839. His father, John G. Watkins, was born in Hall County, Ga., September 14, 1790, and in April, 1810, was married to Miss Charity Davis, of the same State and county. They had ten children, of whom those living are James, Charlotte, Ann, Nancy, John K., Adolphus and M. P. D. The father was a justice of the peace for thirty years, dying December 15, 1858. The mother died about 1868. The subject of our sketch passed his youth in Calhoun County, Ala., attending school, and left home at the age of twenty-one to work for himself, going to Mississippi, where he farmed for one year. March 17, 1859, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Eubanks, daughter of William and Nancy Owen Eubanks. She was born November 16, 1844, and is living at the present time. They had thirteen children: Charity E., William M., James B., John G., Thomas N., Dock J., Nanny, Mason, Hardy C., Viola V., Emma and two who died before being named. Mr. Watkins enlisted in 1861 in the Thirty-third Mississippi Infantry, was a private, and was in the battles of Corinth and Vicksburg, but was not wounded. At the close of the war he returned to Mississippi. In 1884 he moved to his present farm in Howard County, where he owns 520 acres of fine land. Besides agriculture, he is also interested in the mercantile business, having a large store about twenty-five miles from Centre Point, and carrying a general stock of goods. From this he derives a considerable income, and is in every way a prosperous man. An active politician, Mr. Watkins is a Democrat. Both his wife and himself are members of the Methodist Church.