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September 8, 1908
Fontaine R. Earle died at home in Cane Hill (Washington County). Earle was a major in the Thirty-fourth Arkansas Infantry (CSA) from Cane Hill. He fought in a number of Civil War battles in the Trans-Mississippi Theater and later served northwest Arkansas as a legislator (1866–1867), minister, teacher, administrator, and author.