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R. L. Joiner. It cannot be denied that a man who lives according to the highest principles of what he conceives to be right, helping others and in a word, keeping as his aim the Golden Rule, will receive the most sincere esteem of his fellow creatures. Such a one is the subject of this sketch. Born in Shelby County, Tenn., he is the son of R. S. Joiner, and the grandson of Jack Joiner, who emigrated from North Carolina when R. S. Joiner was a small boy. The latter was also a native of Shelby County, Tenn. R. L. Joiner was born on the corner of Poplar and Second Streets, Memphis, Tenn., and there remained until eighteen years of age, receiving a good practical education in the schools of that city. At the above-mentioned age he left the State of his nativity and journeyed to Crittenden County, Ark., where he remained for about five years. In 1868 he came to Mississippi County, Ark., and in the year 1880 settled on what is known as the Parker place, west of Frenchman’s Bayou, where he has cleared by contract about forty acres since coming to the county. Mr. Joiner is a wide-awake, stirring farmer, and his improvements about the place are all of a superior order. In 1880 he was united in marriage with Miss M. L. Price, daughter of Mrs. Mary E. Price, of Lee County, Miss., and the fruits of this union have been three children: Ada Mary, Anna Ruth and Emma Blanche, all at home. Aside from his own farm, Mr. Joiner rents about sixty-two acres, and is engaged in cotton planting on the same, averaging about three-fourths of a bale of cotton to the acre. He is a member of the Agricultural Wheel.