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Samuel W. Loftin, a general farmer and stock raiser, residing on Section 15, township of Grubbs, Jackson County, was born in Rutherford County, Tenn., August 31, 1834. His parents were Eldredge and Elizabeth (Moore) Loftin, natives, respectively, of North Carolina and Tennessee. The father died two years after his location in Jackson County, Ark., which was in 1849; the mother died in Tennessee in 1840. Samuel W. received a limited common school education in the private schools of Tennessee, and in 1857 commenced business for himself. He married Miss Elizabeth Denton, whose birth occurred August 12, 1843, and of their eight children, four died in infancy; those living are Sallie, born January 19, 1867 (who finished her education at Jacksonport, and is now the wife of Eli Evans, a native of Tennessee, and has three children, of whom two are living: Bertha, born in 1886, and Elizabeth, born in 1888), Robert M., born December 15, 1873; Rachel E., born September 12, 1875, and Cora, the latter born July 25, 1882. In 1859 Mr. Loftin bought eighty acres of wild land, upon which he erected a log cabin, and industriously set to work to clear and improve. He afterward bought 200 acres more, and built a comfortable farm house in which the family now lives. Mr. Loftin takes an active interest in educational matters, and proposes to give his children the advantages of a good education, as, having been deprived of the same himself, he realizes its importance, and does not wish them to grow up in ignorance, and the humiliating consciousness that they are inferior to others in that direction. Mrs. Loftin is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and the family is highly respected by all.