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D. C. Watkins, farmer, Revilee, Ark. The parents of Mr. Watkins, William and Lucinda (Maddox) Watkins, were natives of the Palmetto State, where they were reared and married. They removed to Alabama at an early day, and there resided probably fifty years. Mrs. Watkins received her final summons there in 1880, and all the family, with the exception of one daughter, are residents of Arkansas. D. C. Watkins was born in Tuscaloosa County, Ala., in July, 1838, and when twenty-one years of age he started out to fight life’s battles for himself. Two years later, or in 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate Army, in the Thirty-eighth Tennessee Infantry, and was in the battles of Chickamauga, Shiloh and Franklin, besides numerous minor engagements. He served the Confederacy faithfully and well until cessation of hostilities, after which he returned to his home in Alabama. In 1869 he came to Arkansas, returned the next year to Alabama, and while there was married to Mrs. Margaret Weaver. In 1871 he returned with his wife to Logan County, Ark., and there he has since resided. He is the owner of 160 acres of land, and has 100 acres under cultivation. His nuptials were blessed by the birth of eight children—four sons and four daughters: Lucinda, William, Mattie, Viola, Rachel, two died in infancy, and John (died at the age of nine months). Mrs. Watkins died in April, 1886, and was a consistent member of the Christian Church. Mr. Watkins has been a resident of Logan County for twenty-one years, and is well known and respected over the length and breadth of it. He is one of the county’s best citizens.