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Joseph W. Mitchell. Chief in rank among the “great men” of Lincoln County, Ark., stands he whose name heads this sketch. He is an old and prominent citizen, and one most deservedly respected and beloved throughout the community in which he resides. He was born in Tuscaloosa County, Ala., in August 1830, and is the son of Thomas and Almira Isabella (Cherry) Mitchell, natives of the States of Illinois and Georgia, respectively. After several changes in hunting a desirable location, the family finally, in 1848, settled in Arkansas, in what is now Lincoln County, and quite near the place upon which the subject of this sketch now lives. Joseph was the second child of the four now living, viz.: Almira J., J. W., A. J., and Bathinia (now Mrs. W. Whitehead). Joseph passed his early youth partly in this State and partly in Mississippi, and when seventeen years old commenced business for himself, devoting his attention to farming and stock-raising, an occupation which he has continued to follow up to the present time. He enlisted in the late war, in 1861, in the Third Arkansas Infantry, remaining in the Confederate service until peace was once more restored throughout the country. In the year 1860 Mr. Mitchell married Miss Mary A. Tryleth, of Chicot County, Ark. She died in 1874, and to them were born four children, viz.: Mary E., Joseph E., Thomas and Celia Ann. The subject of this sketch married Miss Margaret G. Allen, about 1876, and of this union have been born five children, viz.: Robert A., Almira J., James W., Margaret Annie and Bethima A. Mr. Mitchell is a stanch Democrat. Mrs. Mitchell is a member of the Presbyterian Church.