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F. M. Robinson, justice of the peace, Hazen, Ark. Mr. Robinson owes his nativity to Madison County, Tenn., where his birth occurred October 10, 1835, and is now one of the much-esteemed and respected citizens of Prairie County. He is the eldest of a family of twelve children born to Henry and Jane (Golden) Robinson, the father a native of the Old Dominion, and the mother of South Carolina. They were married in Tennessee, where the father conducted a farm, and was a successful farmer. He is still living in Madison County, Tenn., but his wife died in February, 1889. He first settled in Tennessee when it was called Kentucky. F. M. Robinson passed his boyhood days in assisting on his father’s farm and in attending the schools of Madison County. He selected Miss Susan Lester as his companion in life, and was married to her December 29, 1853, in Tennessee. She was the daughter of Richard and Mary (Newsom) Lester, natives, respectively, of Virginia and Tennessee. At an early date Mr. Lester settled in Tennessee, and there he and wife passed their last days. Mr. Robinson came to Prairie County in 1858, settled near Hickory Plains, and there engaged in agricultural pursuits, which occupation he has continued for twenty-five years. He enlisted at Austin, May 10, 1861, in Company C, Col. Glenn’s regiment of infantry, but later was transferred to Company I, as second lieutenant of the same regiment. He was in a number of the prominent battles, Prairie Grove, Helena, Little Rock, Saline and others, and was taken prisoner at Camden, Ark., confined at Austin, and paroled in 1865, after which he returned to Prairie County, Ark. Here he engaged in tilling the soil, and this continued until 1883, when he moved to Hazen, where he followed the carpenter’s business for some time, and later the undertaker’s business. He owns a good business building and some lots. He takes considerable interest in politics, and votes with the Democratic party. He is recorder of the town of Hazen, and one of the commissioners of accounts of Prairie County. Mr. Robinson has also been magistrate for fourteen successive years, and has discharged all duties incumbent upon these various public offices to the satisfaction of all. To his marriage were born ten living children: Walter (married, and resides near Boston, Tex.), T. A. (engaged in merchandising in Cotton Plant, Ark.), Sam E. (married, and residing at Hope, Ark.), Ella (now Mrs. Rev. W. J. Hudspoth, State evangelist of Christian Church, of Texas, resides at Prescott, Ark.), F. C. (physician and surgeon at Kerr Station, Ark.), Emmett (married, and resides at Hazen), F. B. (resides at Cotton Plant), Minnie (resides at Prescott), Eva and Nellie (both residing at Prescott, Ark.). The mother of these children was called to her long home in March, 1886. She was a kind mother and a true helpmate to her husband.