Biography of Benjamin F. Reeves - Conway Co, AR

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        Date: 21 Jun 1998
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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 101

Benjamin F. Reeves, a planter living in Higgins Township, was born in
Missouri, March 4, 1837. He is a son of Benjamin and Parmelia (Scott)
Reeves, who were natives of Tennessee, where they were married. They
emigrated from Tennessee to Missouri, where father died in 1839;
mother died in 1862. They were members of the M. E. and Christian
Churches, respectively. They were the parents of two children, the
subject of this sketch and Jackson, a younger brother. Mr. Reeves
was married in 1859 to Miss Nancy Morse; they are the parents of
thirteen children, three of whom are dead; the living are Melinda.
John F., George B., Mary, Joseph, Martha A., Benjamin, Hadford, Rufus.
After serving full time in the late war, in which he was wagonmaster
in McFrick's brigade in the Confederate army, he surrendered in the
Indian Territory in 1865, and re-engaged in farming pursuits, in which
he has been constantly engaged since. He now owns a good farm of
127 acres, with eighty acres under cultivation, and the whole well
improved and stocked. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, takes
a lively interest in all matters of public improvement, and is,
politically, a member of the Democratic party.