Biography of A. D. Malone - Conway Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 88

A. D. Malone, one of Plummerville's most thrifty merchants, and
enterprising and public-spirited citizens, is a native of Franklin
County, Alabama, and was born in 1853, being the second surviving son
of A. D. and Mary A. (Tapp) Malone (a sketch of whom appears in the
biography of Elias Malone). The junior A. D. Malone spent his boyhood
days working on the farm of his father, with the advantage of nothing
but the country schools for an education, and at his majority began
the life of a farmer for himself, but afterward attended school a
short time, after which he was engaged in teaching school for about
three years. He then engaged in the grocery trade at Plummerville for
about one year, or till 1879, when he opened up a general store, which
business he has followed ever since with excellent success. He carries
a good stock of everything needed by the farming community, and is
doing an annual business of $20,000. He is also the owner of about 800
acres of land, and real estate in town, all of which is his own
accumulation. In January of 1883, Mr. Malone wedded Miss Rosa Belle
Dacus, a native of Arkansas, and a daughter of Dr. Hiram Dacus, now a
prominent physician of Yell County, formerly of Plummerville, where
Mrs. Dacus died about 1888. Mr. Malone has held the offices of
Treasurer and Secretary in Howard Lodge of Masonry, No. 253. Mrs.
Malone is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.