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Pinckney J. Roberts, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Marion County, S. C., in 1839. His father, William D. Roberts, was born in the same county, August 29, 1806, and there married Miss L. Manning. He still lives in the place of his birth, where he has a large farm. Prior to the war he was a large slave holder. The great-grandfather of our subject, Roger Roberts, was one of a large family, and when a boy accompanied his parents to America from Wales, prior to the Revolution. He served in that war, and then settled in the South, where many of his descendants now live. His son, Redding Roberts, was born in North Carolina, and served in the War of 1812, under Gen. Marion. He died in Marion County, S. C., in 1873, nearly a century old. The maternal grandfather of Mr. Roberts was a native of Ireland. Our subject is the third child of ten born to his parents, three being sons and the remainder daughters. He received a common-school education during his boyhood, and at the age of twenty-three, in 1862, joined Company E, First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry. He served in the Army of Virginia until the surrender at Appomattox, and was with Gen. Stonewall Jackson at the time of his death. He was wounded in the jaw in the second battle of Manassas, lost a finger at Gettysburg, and was wounded in the hip at the battle of the Wilderness. Among other engagements in which he participated were Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and the Seven-Day’s fight. In 1866 Mr. Roberts removed from his native county to Louisiana, and the following year came to Scott County, Ark. In 1871 he married Ruth Ann, daughter of James and Mary Gregory, formerly of White County, Ga., where Mrs. Roberts was born. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory came to Arkansas in 1869, where the father died the same year and the mother is still living. Mr. Roberts settled upon his present farm in 1874, which was then in a wild and uncultivated condition. He has 170 acres in all, and devotes seventy acres to agriculture. Mr. Roberts is a self-made man, his property being the result of hard labor and economy. He is a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for Hancock, in 1880. He joined the Masonic fraternity November 17, 1888.