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Lafayette M. Cobb has become well known here by reason of his connection with the mercantile and other interests of Lafayette Township. He was born in Floyd County, Ga., August 23, 1846, and is the second son of a family of seven children born to Warren and Martha (Hensley) Cobb, natives of North Carolina. The former resided in Georgia until the year 1856, when he moved to Arkansas and located in Sevier County, clearing and improving a farm, upon which he remained until his death, in 1857; his wife only survived him about three months. After the death of his father Lafayette moved from Sevier to Saline County, of which he was a resident until 1864. In that year he settled in Pulaski County, there making his home until the locality was formed a part of Lonoke County, when he settled here (in 1873), the farm at that time comprising the heaviest timber land. However, he has cleared and opened a fine tract of 175 acres, which is in a high state of cultivation. When in his twentieth year, Mr. Cobb was married to Miss Berlina Phillips, a native of West Tennessee, and to this union two children have been born: James M. and Lula. At present Mr. Cobb is engaged in the mercantile business, in which he is very successful. He carries a good stock of goods for a small place, and his manner of doing business insures him the liberal patronage of the surrounding country. He also has the honor of being the first, last and only postmaster of this township. In 1874 he was elected justice of the peace, and later resigned, but was re-elected and served twelve years as magistrate of this township. Mr. and Mrs. Cobb are members of the Baptist Church, in which the former is clerk. The famous Judge Cobb, of Grant County, is a brother of this subject.