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Dudley Lynch, another prominent tiller of the soil in Mississippi County, Ark., is a native of the Blue Grass State, where he was born on the 28th of March, 1815, and is one of sixteen children born to Jerry and Mary Ann Lynch, natives of South Carolina and Kentucky, respectively. The father was a prominent farmer in his native State, and died in Hickman. Dudley Lynch assisted his father in the necessary duties upon the farm until fifteen years of age, and then began working on a Government snag boat, which occupation he followed during the winter season for a number of years. On April 13, 1837, he came to Arkansas, settled in Mississippi County, where he was engaged in getting out cypress stave shingles, and was also engaged in the general lumber business. At the same time he entered a tract of land, 160 acres, on which he still resides. Mr. Lynch was married to Miss Wallace in 1846, and two children were the result of this union, both now deceased: Robert Dennis and Mary. His second marriage was with Elizabeth Hearn, a native of Kentucky, and the daughter of Joseph Hearn, an early settler of this county. Three living children are the result of this marriage: Beckey, wife of Mr. McKinney; Martha, wife of Mr. Martin, residing on our subject’s farm, and Dudley, who married Miss Jennie Lock, and resides at Lynch Landing. Mrs. Lynch died January 2, 1861. For his third wife Mr. Lynch chose, in 1865, Mrs. Martha Ann Bertt (widow of Joseph Bertt, a native of Wisconsin). Mrs. Bertt was a native of Missouri, and was the mother of one child by her first marriage, V. V. Bertt, who is at present mail agent on the Anchor Line steamboats. Mr. Bertt enlisted in the Confederate army soon after his marriage, and served with Gen. Price. He was wounded at Springfield, and died there soon after. His son, V. V. Bertt, attended the public schools of Osceola for a number of years, and spent his youth on his step-father’s farm. In 1887 he was employed on the Government works at Memphis, and on February 18, 1889, he secured his appointment as mail agent on the above named steamboats, which position he holds at the present time. Van, as he is familiarly called, is a young man of pleasing manners, courteous and agreeable, and one of the rising young men of this section. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Lynch these children have been born: Minerva Emma, wife of F. L. McGee, residing near Elmot; John D., who died at the age of seventeen years; Peter Calvin, who was accidentally shot on the 21st of November, 1884; Julia Ann, James L. and Lena Lillian. On the tract of land that Mr. Lynch originally entered he now has the entire tract under cultivation, all well fenced, with a good orchard. He has other farms which he has improved, and his children are residing on these. Lynch’s Landing, which was opened on Mr. Lynch’s place in 1881, was named in honor of him.