Samuel T. Cole. The mercantile and farming interests of Washington County, Ark., are well represented by the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. His birth occurred in Jones County, Ga., October 19, 1831, but be was reared to manhood in Kemper County, Miss. He remained with bis father until he attained his majority, and then came to Arkansas in 1858, locating in Yell County, where be was married September 25, 1860, to Mary E. Woods. She was born September 20, 1839, in Tennessee and reared in Mississippi, and was the daughter of John Woods (deceased). Up to 1874 they resided in Yell County, but since that time have been residents of Cane Hill Township. He purchased a farm of thirty-six acres, on which is a neat one-story residence and a fine orchard of fifteen acres of well-selected fruits. Since 1887 he has been engaged in merchandising in the town of Boonsboro, carrying a good and fairly large stock. He is one of the directors and treasurer and the largest stockholder in the Cane Hill Canning and Evaporating Factory, and is one of the enterprising citizens of the county. He is the father of the following family: Amanda B., wife of S. J. Harris, of Dardanelle; Dr. John W., of Boonsboro; 0. H., who is in the store with his father; Lula L., Mattie I., Mary L. and Carl G. Samuel Walter died in 1884, at the age of fifteen years. Mr. Cole's parents, Reuben and Celia (Wadsworth) Cole, were born in Richmond County, N. C., and Jones County, Ga., respectively. They were married in the latter State, and there made their home until 1841, when they moved to Kemper County, Miss., the father dying in Kemper County April 25, 1857, the mother in Washington County January 26, 1877. He was a soldier in the Creek War, and was major in the State militia of Georgia.