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M. C. House, planter of Lonoke County, was born in Cabarrus County, N. C., April 1, 1848, his father, John W. House, having been born in the same county in 1817. There he was educated and grew to manhood, being married to Mary E. Austin. This union was blessed with five children, three boys and two girls. The father was a farmer and miller by occupation, and also a captain of a State military company before the late war. His wife was a member of the Methodist Church, South, dying in 1852, after which he married Elizabeth Parker in 1853. There were four girls born to this union, all still living in North Carolina. He died in 1862. The grandfather, Jacob House, was born in Cabarrus County, N. C., in 1794. He was a farmer, serving through the war of 1812. He still survives, and is residing with one of his daughters near the old homestead, and being of Dutch descent is a member of the Lutheran Church. M. C. House received his education at Mount Pleasant, N. C., and when sixteen volunteered in the Confederate service, enlisting in Company H, Eighth North Carolina Regiment, Clingman’s brigade, Hake’s division, then located in front of Petersburg, Va. In a battle on the Weidon Railroad, near Petersburg, he was captured and recaptured three different times in one engagement on August 19, 1864. He participated in many other engagements in Virginia and North Carolina, and surrendered fifteen miles east of Greensboro, N. C., at the close of the war, after which he returned home and began to farm. Soon leaving North Carolina, he was unsettled for some time, first going to Illinois and then back to his native home. After remaining but a short time he went to Texas, and from there to Kansas with a drove of cattle, returning again to his old home in North Carolina. Shortly leaving once more, he returned to Texas, and in 1874 came to Arkansas, settling near Russellville, in Pope County, moving in 1876 to Lonoke County, where he has since lived. Here, May 27, 1877, he was married to Georgie A. Williford. To this union a family of three girls has been born: Myrtle R., Margie B. and Miriam G. Mr. House is a farmer owning 820 acres of land, with 200 acres in cultivation. This accumulation is the direct result of continued toil and good management. His first wife died on July 14, 1883. He was then married to Rhoda V. Misenhimer December 2, 1883, an elder sister to his first wife. He is a Master Mason, belonging to Jacinto Lodge No. 216, is a Royal Arch Mason and a member of Lonoke Chapter No. 31. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Church, he having held a membership for three years, while his wife has been associated with the good work for eighteen years.