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CARLOCK, John F. Biography

John F. Carlock has successfully followed the calling of a merchant in Tate county, Miss., since 1887, and being a genial and whole-souled man he has won numerous friends throughout the section in which he makes his home. He began life in Marshall county, Miss., March 21, 1848, the eldest and only surviving child of John and Fannie (Carlock) Carlock, who were born in North Carolina and Alabama, respectively. Mr. Carlock, Sr., removed to Alabama in early life, in which state he received his education, but he transferred his residence to Marshall county, Miss., after his marriage, which occurred when he was about thirty dive years old. After a residence of a few years in this couuty, he located in Tate county, where he passed the remainder of his life, dying in 1873. His widow survived him until 1880, when she, too, passed away. John F. Carlock, their son, passed his early years and received his rudimentary education in Marshall and Oxford counties. Ho made rapid progress in his studies, for he possessed a naturally line mind, and was well qualified to battle with the world upon starting out in life for himself. Upon attaining his majority he turned his attention to planting, at which he has been very successful, being the owner of a large estate amounting to twenty-four hundred acres. In 1887 he purchased a onethird interest in the mercantile business of J. V. Patton, thus forming the well-known firm of Carlock & Patton. The small capital with which he began has been judiciously invested in business, and has increased to the handsome proportions which it has now attained. Mr. Carlock may well feel proud of his success, as it fittingly marks his ability and constant attention to business. His military career was short, for he enlisted in the service the last year of the war, and was in but one engagement, a sharp skirmish at Coldwator, Miss. Mr. Carlock is said to be a confirmed bachelor, though still in the prime of life. [Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi, Chicago, The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1891.]