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Robert G. Mann, farmer of Owen Township, was born in York District, S. C, and is a son of Grief Mann, a cabinet-maker of York village, who located in South Carolina when a young man. He was of English descent, and learned his trade in the State of Virginia. He was married in South Carolina to Miss Rebecca G. Anderson, and died while the subject of this sketch was about four years old. The mother continued to live in South Carolina, her native State, where she reared her family of six children, and finally departed this life in 1866. Robert was next to the youngest child, and the only one living at the present time. He was born in 1836, and remained with his mother only a short time after his father’s death, going to live with an uncle, Samuel Anderson, one of South Carolina’s leading men and captain of militia before the war. He remained with this uncle until he reached his fifteenth year, at which time he started out for himself by learning the blacksmith’s trade. However, his eyes failing, he hired out as a farm hand, working eight months, with the privilege of attending school four months. He married Miss Sarah J. Bridges, of South Carolina, in 1856, and the same year moved to Tennessee, locating in Wayne County, and remaining there three years. In November, 1859, he returned to Arkansas, locating in Bradley County, and after a year moved to Jefferson County, where his family resided until after the war. The subject of this sketch entered the Confederate army in Company D, Twenty-sixth Arkansas, serving to the close of the war. He was wounded at Prairie Grove, Ark., in his left foot by a minie-ball, and experienced all the hardships and deprivations of a true soldier’s life, and was discharged at Marshall, Tex. After the war he located in Bradley County, Ark. His wife died in 1863, while Mr. Mann was at Fort Smith and unable to get home. Again in 1868 he moved, and this time to Arkansas, settling in what is now Lincoln County. Mr. Mann was married in January of the same year to Mrs. Mary Johnes, a native of Wilkinson County, Ga., and of this union were born six children, four of whom are living. Mr. and Mrs. Mann are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, and he belongs to the Masonic lodge of Star City No. 256, and also to the Agricultural Wheel.