Biography of Jonathan Cole, Franklin Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed
Publishing Co., 1889.

Jonathan Cole, an enterprising resident of Prairie Township. Franklin
County, was born in Wayne County, Tenn., January 18, 1844. His
parents, Henry and Serena (Hinkle) Cole, had ten children, six of whom
are now living, viz.: James, Thomas, Price, Jonathan, Mary, wife of J.
A. Mosely, and Tennie C., who married W. M. Lafevers. The paternal
grandfather of our subject removed from North Carolina to Wayne
County, Tenn., about 1825; he was an extensive farmer, and died in
1869, at an advanced age. Henry Cole was born in North Carolina in
1819, and removed to Tennessee with his parents when a child; in 1846
he located on a farm in Izard County, Ark., where he lived until his
death, which occurred in 1871; he was a very prominent man, and held
several public offices, serving as county judge and probate judge
several years; he was also an active member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and was a member of the A. F. & A. M. The mother of our
subject was a native of Tennessee, was born in 1823, and was a
daughter of William Hinkle, an enterprising farmer, who located in
Izard County, Ark., in 1846. Mrs. Cole died in 1863. Jonathan Cole was
reared and received his education in Izard County, Ark. In 1865 he
married Rosanna Cole, a native of Hardin County, Tenn., who was born
in 1849, and was a daughter of W. C. Cole, a prominent farmer of Izard
County. Of the fourteen children born to this union, seven are now
living, viz.: Maggie L., James E., Jesse H., Millard M., Conrad C.,
Fred J. and Olan L. Those deceased are Joseph W., Flora E., Thomas M.,
Charles, Henry and two infants unnamed. The mother died December 5,
1887; she was a loving mother, and a devoted member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and is deeply mourned by the family and a large
circle of friends who knew her but to love her. After his marriage Mr.
Cole located on a farm in Izard County, where he lived until 1877,
when he sold out and removed to his present farm in Franklin County,
which consists of 275 acres, 150 acres of which he has under good
cultivation. He is an industrious and enterprising farmer, and also
owns and operates a saw-mill, a cotton-gin and a corn-mill. During the
late war Mr. Cole served in Company F, Twenty-seventh Arkansas
Regiment, Confederate Army. He is an active worker in the Methodist
Episcopal Church and Sunday-school, and takes a deep interest in all
educational and public enterprises. He is a member of the A. F. & A.
M., and his political sympathies are with the Democratic party.