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Mrs. Mary E. Futch, wife of Dave Futch, was born near Camden, Ouachita County, Ark., on August 31, 1845. She is a great-granddaughter of John Warnock, who emigrated from Ireland about the beginning of the Revolutionary War, and enlisted in the American army, and served until the close of the war. He married a Miss Vanderver, of Irish descent, and settled in South Carolina, and there resided until his death; and she is the grand-daughter of Robert Warnock, who was born in Pendleton District, S. C, in the year, 1794. He married Miss Lucretia McGraw, of Fairfield District, S. C, of Scotch descent, who was born in 1790, and died in Ouachita County, Ark., in 1802. Robert Warnock, the grandfather of our subject, served in the Florida War as captain of an Alabama company, where he had emigrated. In 1840 he came to Hempstead County, Ark., to seek a location. He brought his family, in 1841, settled near Camden, Ouachita County, Ark., where he died in 1845. Andrew P. Warnock, the father of Mrs. Futch, was born February 5, 1825, in Autauga County, Ala., and there reared until sixteen years of age. Then, with his father’s family he emigrated to Ouachita County, Ark. In the year 1844 he was married to Miss Margaret A. Walker, who was born March 16, 1829, in Madison County, Ala., and emigrated to Ouachita County, Ark., in the year, 1840, with John Walker, her father, who was of Irish descent. The mother of our subject, died June 23, 1861. The father served in the Confederate army, in Capt. Paul Dismuke’s Company of heavy artillery, was in the siege of Vicksburg, and was at Alexandria, La., when the war closed. In 1864 he was married, the second time, to Miss M. J. M. Thompson, who was born and reared in Mississippi. He was a farmer and a Democrat, a Mason of good standing; he served Columbia County officially several terms; he died April 21, 1878. Mary E. Futch, the eldest of ten children— eight are now living—remained in Ouachita County until six years of age, when her father, in 1851, emigrated to what is now Columbia County, Ark., where she has since resided, except one year spent in Hill County, Tex. She received her education in the common schools, and was married to Dave Futch on March 12, 1865. She joined the Missionary Baptist Church, August 18, 1872.