Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Francis M. Temple

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Francis M. Temple, farmer, was born June 2, 1830, in Williamson 
County, Tenn., and is a son of Roderick and Mary (Lee) Temple, natives 
of Virginia. The father immigrated to Tennessee alone when a young 
man, and located in Williamson County, and after his marriage moved to 
Davidson County, where he died in 1849. The mother went to Tennessee 
by wagon when a girl. She bore Mr. Temple eleven children, three of 
whom are living: Narcissus, Francis M. and William. Hubbard, James, 
Alexander, Mary, Eliza, Maria, Frederick and one other are deceased. 
Mrs. Temple died in Arkansas July 30, 1884, aged eighty-five. The 
maternal grandparents of our subject were early settlers of Tennessee, 
and there passed their lives. Francis M. Temple was reared upon a farm 
in Tennessee, and attended school but six months. He had a natural 
gift for mechanics, but has engaged in farming principally. After his 
father's death he cared for the family, and September 28, 1854, 
married Mary Roselle, who bore him two children, James M. and William 
A. Mrs. Temple died June 15, 1857, and March 29, 1863, he married 
Minerva Lewis, daughter of Henry and Jane A. (Hobaugh) Lewis, natives 
of Kentucky and Missouri, respectively. Mrs. Temple was born in Texas 
County, Mo., and when eight years of age came to Arkansas. She is the 
mother of seven children: Mary T., Francis M., Charles H., Sarah E., 
Narcissus I., Thomas Ivy and Edna. Mr. Temple enlisted in the United 
States army in 1862, joining Company D, First Arkansas Volunteer 
Cavalry, and being discharged at Fayetteville in 1865. Among other 
[p.1202] battles he was present at Prairie Grove, Fayetteville and 
Elkhorn. Mr. Temple came to Crawford County in 1850, settling near 
Flat Rock, and three years later moved near Ollivar Spring, where he 
lived three years. He then lived two miles north of this place for 
several years, and then settled where he now resides. He owns 160 
acres, seventy-five of which are cultivated. He is a public-spirited 
man, and has given a lot on which to erect a school building. Himself 
and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a 
Republican, and a member of the G. A. R.