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W. B. Lemoyne. In 1852 there came to Dardanelle, George W. and Penelope P. (Walton) Lemoyne (natives of Virginia and Tennessee, respectively) and family. George W. was educated in Virginia, but on coming to Arkansas secured a school in Johnson County, which he taught for some time. Studying law and being admitted to the bar in Johnson (now Yell) County, he soon became known as one of the leading lawyers of his section and time; being very prominent and pronounced in his political views he was returned to both branches of the General Assembly of the State again and again. He at one time recruited a company from Dardanelle he being chosen as colonel, which was dispatched east of the Mississippi River; subsequently resigning, he returned home. He was a faithful and consistent worshiper of the church, and an efficient member of the Masonic order. His wife died in 1863. W. B. Lemoyne, the genial agent for the Pacific Express and Dardanelle & Russellville Railroad, was born in 1847, in Conway County, Ark., and was the eldest son in his father’s family, being reared in this and attending the private schools of the same till his majority, when he entered into the mercantile business, which he conducted for three years, then settled on a farm, which he now rents, devoting his entire time to the railroad and express business, to which he was appointed agent in 1883. During President Cleveland’s administration he was made postmaster of Dardanelle. In 1876 he wedded Mrs. Johnnie B. Gordon, daughter of Robert Cunningham, an old and highly respected citizen of Yell County. To Mr. and Mrs. Lemoyne were born the following family: Stacy, Anita, Jane Penelope, Basil, Morand and Lavanche, all living, Mattie being a child by her former husband. In religion the family worship with the Old School Presbyterian Church. Our subject is a conscientious voter of the Democratic party, being one of its most active workers, and socially is connected with the K. of P. and K. of H.