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Pinkney S. Johnston, M. D., was born in Henderson County, N. C., June 17, 1845, and is a son of Samuel P. and Sarah Ann (Bell) Johnston, natives of North Carolina. The father moved to Polk County, Tenn., when Pinkney was a small child. He was a carpenter by trade, and worked at that business in connection with farming. In 1859 he moved with his family to Winston County, Ala., where he became an influential citizen. He served some time as county treasurer, and died in Lawrence County, Ala., in 1863. When a lad of fourteen our subject accompanied his parents to Alabama, where he grew to manhood and received an education. In 1868 he returned to Tennessee, and studied dentistry, which he afterward practiced. During his leisure hours he studied medicine for six years, and in the winter of 1885 and 1886 attended a course of lectures at Memphis, having in November, 1876, come to Franklin County, Ark., and located in White Rock Township. Here he practiced dentistry until his medical course was completed, since which time his attention has been given to his profession. He graduated from the medical college at Memphis in the spring of 1888. June 21, 1878, Dr. Johnston was united in marriage, in White Rock Township, to Ellen D. Peters, who was born and educated in Georgia, and is a daughter of John M. Peters. Dr. Johnston is a Master Mason. To himself and wife the following children have been born: John Samuel, Charles W., Henry P., Alva, and Martha A., who died at the age of two years.