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Mrs. Maria L. Click was born in Morgan County, Ala., July 15, 1838. Her parents, Joseph Turrentine, of Virginia, and Miss Rhoda Payne, of Georgia, were married about 1817 in Tennessee, and had twelve children, of whom only Rhoda W., Joseph T. and Maria L. are now living. A few years after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Turrentine moved from Tennessee to Alabama, where the former engaged in agricultural pursuits. They afterward moved to Arkansas, settling on a farm in Howard County. The subject of our sketch attended school in Alabama, and also in Arkansas. After the death of her parents she lived with her sister until the time of her marriage to William H. Click in 1861. Mr. Click was a native of Arkansas, was born in 1838, and died in 1882, of dropsy of the heart. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a devout Christian, and died a quiet death of perfect resignation. They had eight children, of whom Margaret H. is dead; William A., Joseph E., John W., Louis P., Robert A., Rhoda E. and Mary E. are living. Mrs. Click professed religion and joined the church in 1855, and has at all times been a willing contributor to worthy public matters and the support of churches. Her husband enlisted in the Arkansas army, serving until the close of the war. He surrendered in Texas, after which he returned home to devote his attention to agriculture. Mr. Click was a Democrat, and a useful member in the community in which he lived. Mrs. Click owns 250 acres of exceedingly valuable Arkansas land.