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Silas W. Marble, though an out-and-out Buckeye, is now a sturdy son, by adoption, of Arkansas, and is engaged in dairy-farming in Lonoke County. He was born in Knox County, Ohio, May 17, 1844, being the son of William J. Marble, who came originally from St. Lawrence County, N. Y., to Ohio, with another brother, at an early date. They were then young men, and engaged in farming. Mr. Marble was also in charge of the county poor farm of Knox County for six years. In 1866 he removed with his family to Illinois, settling in Henderson County, where he is now living, in his eightieth year. He was a “bugler” for a militia company while in the State of New York. A Republican politically, until 1876, he then voted for Tilden, and has supported the Democratic nominee ever since, being an active politician, and has held some township office nearly all of the time. In religious ideas he is a firm believer in the Universalist Church. Mrs. Marble was born in Vermont, in 1812, her maiden name being Sarah Beach; she died in 1867, a member of the Lutheran Church. They were the parents of ten children, all of whom are living, the youngest being thirty-two years of age. Silas W. remained in Ohio until the breaking out of the Civil War, when he enlisted at the age of seventeen, in Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he served until June, 1865. He participated in the battles of Perryville (Ky.), Chickamauga, and in all of the engagements during Sherman’s march to the sea. He had a horse shot from under him at Bentonville, N. C, but escaped uninjured. After the war Mr. Marble returned home, and on July 5, went to Illinois, and located in Knox County, continuing there five years. Then he spent the next five years in Iroquois County, and afterward the same length of time in Henderson County. In 1883 he moved to Lonoke County, Ark., settling in Carlisle Township, where he bought the farm he still owns and occupies, the same then being unimproved. He now has 160 acres under improvement; also owns sixty acres of timber, and is devoting his attention principally to stock raising and dairy farming. While living in Knox County, he was connected with Post and Redfield, prominent stock raisers. Mr. Marble was married in 1873, to Miss Lizzie B. Vance, a native of Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Isaac Vance. Mr. and Mrs. Marble are the parents of three children, one of whom only is living, Fred E. Frank E. and Mabel C. are deceased. Mr. Marble is a member of the G. A. R., belonging to Post No. 59. He is a strong Republican, and a liberal donator to all charitable and public enterprises.