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Francis M. Pipkin, merchant, of Yorkville, Tenn., is a native of the State, born in 1840, son of Steward and Louisa (Wade) Pipkin. The father was born in Tennessee and immigrated to Kentucky, where he married Miss Wade, who was a native of that State. He was a farmer and carpenter, and was an old Mexican war veteran. He moved to Missouri in 1843, where his wife died, leaving him five children to care for. He shortly after married Mary Warren, by whom he had three children. While returning to Tennessee in 1852 he died on the journey in Graves County, Ky. Francis M. was left fatherless at the early age of eleven years. He made his home with his uncle and grandfather about two years, and then came to Madison County, Tenn., where he lived with Thomas Harroll one year. He then went to Missouri and there resided, with the exception of a few months spent in Tennessee, until the breaking out of the war, when he enlisted in Capt. Hart’s battery, Confederate States Army, and after one year’s service came to Tennessee and began working on the farm. In 1863 he married Delphina Pipkin, daughter of Philip and Mary A. (White) Pipkin. She was born in Maury County, Tenn., in 1840, and became the mother of seven children, four of whom are dead. She died in 1880. In 1878 he located in Yorkville, where he is engaged in mercantile pursuits, being very prosperous in the same. He is entirely self-educated and is a member of the I. O. O. F. and A. O. U. W. He is of Irish lineage and is a Democrat in politics. In 1882 he married Eliza Willbanks, daughter of William and Kittie (Grimes) Willbanks. She was born in Tennessee in 1835, and is the mother of two children. She and Mr. Pipkin are members of the Missionary Baptist Church.