Col. M.M. DUFFIE passed
away at his home in Malvern, Ark., Sept. 12, 1906, after a
lingering illness of general debility, having reached the ripe age
of 74 years. He was a native of South Carolina, and graduated from
Erskine College, in 1856. He studied law under Judge F.W. Campbell
and was admitted to the bar in 1858 at Princeton.
When the war
broke out, he organized a company of ninety-nine men; strange to
say, there was but one married man in the whole company . With
this company he enlisted in the Confederate army in May, 1861,
joining the 6th Regiment of Arkansas Infantry, Army of Tennessee.
He rose to various grades during the war, and participated in nearly
all the battles his regiment was engaged in. He was severely
wounded at Chickamauga and when paroled he was lieutenant colonel
of his regiment. After the war, he returned to Arkansas and
resumed the practice of law. He represented Dallas County in the
State legislature in 1868, was elected to the Stae Senate in 1879.
He returned to Arkansas and settled in Malvern, associating with him
his son, WILLIAM R. DUFFIE, in the law and resided there until his
death. He was married to MISS COOKSEY in 1866.
He was
buried by the Masonic fraterrnity with the members of Van H.
Manning Camp.,
U.C.V.