Benton Co., AR - Biographies - Samuel Allen Jefferson

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Samuel Allen Jefferson was born in Washington County, Ark., in 1838, 
and is a son of George H. and Elizabeth (Moore) Jefferson, who were 
born in Virginia and Tennessee in 1802 and 1810, respectively. The 
mother died in 1883. The father was of German-English descent, and was 
a young man when he became a resident of Trigg County, Ky. He was 
married in Bedford County, Tenn., and in 1835 located in Washington 
County, Ark., and in 1841 came to Benton County. He began keeping 
hotel in Bentonville in 1842, and in connection with this kept a 
cabinet-shop. His death occurred in 1846. His wife was a daughter of 
Samuel Moore, who was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was with Gen. 
Jackson at the battle of New Orleans. Samuel Allen Jefferson is one of 
three surviving members of a family of ten children, and was reared 
and educated in Benton County. In 1862 he was married to Miss Joan 
Neal, born in Missouri in 1839, a daughter of Daniel Neal, and by her 
became the father of eleven children: Bartlett A., Georgette (wife of 
C. C. Huffman), Mary J., William T., Mahel, Pearl, George (deceased). 
Charles, Pierce (deceased), Minnie and Edna. Mr. Jefferson has a good 
farm of 160 acres. He is a Democrat in his political views. May 21, 
1861, he enlisted in Company B. First Arkansas Cavalry, State troops, 
and in August of the same year enlisted in Company G, First Arkansas 
Cavalry, and was in the battles of Pea Ridge, Prairie Grove, Poison 
Spring. Mansfield and others. At the battle of Oak Hill he was 
severely wounded in the left thigh, and was obliged to go on crutches 
for nine months. He served four years. and surrendered at Fort Smith, 
Ark.