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J. L. Quarles, who is numbered among the prominent agriculturists of Mississippi County, Ark., is a native of Tallahatchee County, Miss., where he remained until the breaking out of the late war, when he enlisted in Company D, Twenty-seventh Mississippi Volunteer Infantry, and served in Alabama and Tennessee, also taking part in the Perryville, Ky., battle. He was in the battles of Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, and in the latter battle was wounded, by having a minie ball enter his neck and come out near the spinal column. He next took part in the battle of Lookout Mountain, where the company went in thirty-seven strong, and only six returned unscathed. He was at Missionary Ridge, Resaca (Ga.), New Hope Church, Atlanta, Jonesboro, and Franklin (Tenn.), and was mustered out and paroled at Grenada, Miss., after which he returned to Tallahatchee County, and there followed agricultural pursuits for two years. From there he went to Carroll County, of the same State, and after tilling the soil until December, 1887, he and family took possession of Shawnee Village, for Mrs. W. S. Bransford, of Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Quarles superintends the whole place, which consists of 1,400 acres, with 700 under cultivation. He thinks Arkansas one of the best countries in the world in which to raise livestock, especially mules, and says he has twenty head on the place for which he would not take $140 per head. These mules have lived entirely on the range, winter and summer, with no expense except a little attention in the way salting, etc. Mr. Quarles says you may take a mule out of the plow in July, when, it is almost worked to a shadow, and in a few weeks it will be fat and in good condition. The above mentioned gentleman is a member of the firm of Quarles Bros., who are now renting 300 acres of the Warner farm, in this county, near McGavock. Mr. Quarles chose for his life companion Miss L. F. Merrill, of Carroll County, Miss., where their children were all born. These are named as follows: B. W., now at home; Anna Merrill, J. L., Jr., Merrill, Oliver P. and Lucy F. They lost one child, the eldest, at the age of three years. Mrs. Quarles is the daughter of J. W. S. Merrill, of Carroll County, Miss., where he is a civil engineer of considerable note. He has been elected assessor and collector of Le Flore County, and has been surveyor of the United States land office for many years. Mr. Quarles has been a member of the Masonic Lodge of Greenwood, Miss., for the past eighteen years, and he and wife and three eldest children are members of the Christian Church.