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Robert P. Frix, one of the leading planters of the county, was born in Cass County, Ga., April 12, 1854, being a son of Leucelius and Sallie (Ramsey), Frix, natives, respectively of Tennessee and South Carolina, the former being a planter and carpenter by trade. He was of German descent and was in the late war, enlisting in 1861 in a company of infantry, and died in 1863 while fighting for the cause he espoused. Prior to the war he had removed from Tennessee to Georgia, thence to Arkansas in 1857, entering a woodland farm in Ouachita County, which he immediately began to improve and on which he built a good log house. He was an honored member of the Masonic order, and he and wife were earnest and consistent members of the Baptist Church. Their union was blessed by eight children, four now living: John, Robert, Josephine and Thomas B. Robert P. Frix received the education and rearing which is the lot of the average farmer boy, and in 1877 he was united in the bonds of matrimony to Miss Sallie Donaldson, by whom he became the father of one child, Nesbey L. He was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife by death in 1883, and in the year 1885 he took for his second wife Mrs. Winnie Peterson, widow of William Peterson. Mr. Frix has 115 of his 320 acre farm under cultivation and he is considered one of the thrifty and enterprising tillers of the soil in this section of the country. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a Democrat, politically.