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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 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 valentine 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.