Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Samuel L. Larue

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Samuel L. Larue was born in Kentucky in 1830. His grandparents, Samuel 
and Elizabeth (Waters) Larue, were natives of Virginia and of French 
and German descent, respectively. In 1806 they moved from Virginia to 
Kentucky. They were wealthy farmers and slave-holders, and died in 
1840 and 1858. The maternal grandparents, James and Elizabeth (Waters) 
Castleman, were also natives of Virginia, who moved to Kentucky when 
young, and lived until their respective deaths in 1842 and 1854. They 
were also wealthy people, and owned a large number of slaves. The 
parents of our subject, Josiah and Mary (Castleman) Larue, were born 
in Virginia, in 1804, and in Kentucky, in 1810, respectively. When 
young the father moved to Kentucky, where he married and engaged in 
farming the remainder of his life. To himself and wife thirteen 
children were born, nine of whom are living, and two are residents of 
this county, viz., our subject and James Larue. Mr. Samuel Larue 
received but a limited education during his youth, and began life for 
himself when twenty-one years of age. He left Kentucky when forty-one 
years old and came to Arkansas. Since then he has by industry and good 
management become the owner of 300 acres of land, 110 acres being well 
cultivated and improved, with a good residence and out-buildings. 
There are three tenement houses upon the home place, and his fruit 
farm contains 1,000 apple trees besides a large number of peach and 
plum trees. In 1851 Mr. Larue married Mary Burdine, who was born in 
Kentucky in 1830, and is the mother of seven children, all, with the 
exception of Mrs. Letitia Hubbs, of Texas, being residents of this 
county. The other children of our subject are Mrs. Elvira Lowett, Mrs. 
Frances Rainey, Mrs. Grace Swearingen, Christopher C., Mrs. Elizabeth 
Cluck and Mrs. Martha Johns. Mrs. Larue's father, John Burdine, was 
born in 1802 and died in 1878, having been a farmer all his life. His 
wife, Rebecca Burdine, was born in 1812 and died in 1834. Of their 
fifteen children but two survive, viz.: Mrs. Larue and Mrs. Sarah 
Larue. Our subject, wife and four children are active members of the 
Missionary Baptist Church, and Mr. Larue belongs to the Masonic 
fraternity. Democratic principles were instilled in his mind when a 
youth, and he has always voted the Democratic ticket, his first 
presidential vote having been cast for Taylor in 1848. 

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