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Augustin Clayton Poole is a successful farmer and fruit grower of Washington County, Ark., and was born in Hall County, Ga., August 29, 1828. The farm of 154 acres, on which he located in 1871, is one of the best in the county, and he also has twenty acres of bottom land on the White River. He was named after Judge Augustin Clayton, of Georgia, who was an old and highly esteemed friend of his father. He was reared and educated in Franklin County, Ark., and was there married, in 1849, to Elizabeth Dunn, soon after locating on a farm near Charleston, but in 1858 came to Washington County, Ark., locating on a farm on the White River. In 1863 he enlisted in Company I, First Arkansas Regiment, United States Army, and served his country faithfully until the close of the war. He then returned to his farm, and found it destitute of fencing and stock, and had to begin the battle of life anew. His wife died in March, l865, having borne a family of five children, and his daughter Jane kept house for him until 1866, when he married Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis, widow of Henry Lewis, and by her became the father of two children. His second wife died in 1877, and in December, 1879, he was married to his third and present wife, Mrs. Clarissa Lyons, widow of John Lyons, of Illinois. He is a stanch Republican in politics, and is a son of Mastin P. and Lucinda (Gailey) Poole, who were born in Greenville, S. C., and Hall County, Ga., respectively. The father was reared on a tobacco plantation, and in 1818 was married to Miss Gailey, and became a planter of Georgia. In 1830 he located in Hardeman County, Tenn., and four years later came to Arkansas, and improved a farm near where Charleston now is. In 1853 he went to Madison County, and in 1857 located in Washington County. He was a strong Union man during the war, and after suffering many persecutions and indignities at the hands of the Southern sympathizers, he was compelled to locate in Fayetteville for protection. He died in 1868, and his wife in 1867. They were the parents of twelve children, ten of whom lived to manhood and womanhood.