Biography of John N. Volentine, 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.

John N. Volentine is the second born and only surviving child in the
family of five children born to Andrew and Winnifred (Stevenson)
Volentine, natives, respectively, of North Carolina and South
Carolina. The grandparents of our subject were natives of England, who
immigrated to the United States in an early day, and were farmers by
occupation. Andrew Volentine was born in 1806, and after reaching his
maturity married and removed from his native State to Wilkinson
County, Ga., where he remained until his death, which occurred in
1836. The mother of John N. Volentine was born in 1808, and was a
daughter of Henry and Dilla Stevenson, parents of twelve children, of
whom Winnifred was the fifth. The mother died in 1840, and her
daughter died in Franklin County, Ark., in 1879, a member of the
Baptist Church. After the death of Andrew Volentine, in 1836,
Winnifred Volentine married Edward A. Morgan, in 1838. He was born and
reared in England, near London, and died in Wilkinson County, Ga., in
1854. John N. Volentine was born June 19, 1830, and was reared in
Georgia, where he remained until 1856, when he located on a farm in
Clark County, Ala. In 1862 he enlisted in Company I, Wirt Adams'
regiment, Confederate army, and served until April, 1865, when he was
wounded in the thigh in a skirmish near Gainesville, and returned
home, where he was detained until his company surrendered. In 1867 he
went to Carroll County, Ark., by wagon, and December 24 settled on the
farm where he has since lived. He has 540 acres, all fenced, and 200
acres under cultivation, and is one of the most enterprising and
prominent farmers of the county. In 1853 Mr. Volentine married Eliza
Dales, a native of Houston County, Ga., who died April 11, 1866, the
mother of five children, viz.: Louisa, wife of T. L. Bradley, of
Franklin County; John T., Dora V., Jesse B. and Mary J. (deceased).
Mr. Volentine subsequently married Mary F. Franklin, by whom he has
one child, Alice. Politically Mr. Volentine is a Democrat. He takes an
active part in educational matters. John T. Volentine is a school-
teacher, and has given general satisfaction. Alice Volentine taught
school five months the past winter and spring, and also during this
fall. She has been thus occupied three years.