Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - S. H. Reed

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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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S. H. Reed was born in De Soto County, Miss., in 1837, and is a son of 
John and Ann S. (Rossel) Reed, natives of North Carolina and Virginia, 
respectively. When nine years of age Mr. Reed was taken by his parents 
to Hardeman County, Tenn., where he was reared. After his marriage in 
Alabama he settled in De Soto County, M**s., where he died in 1849, 
and his wife survived him until 1853. James B. Re****d, the 
grandfather, was born in North Carolina soon after his parents came to 
America, and was of Scotch-Irish descent. He died in Prairie County at 
the advanced age of one hundred and four. Our subject was the sixth of 
a family of nine children. and was educated at the neighborhood 
school-house and at Holly Springs, Miss. In September, 1861, he joined 
Company B, under Wirt Adams, serving throughout the war, although not 
on active [p.1188] duty except for two years, on account of 
disability. In 1858 he married Fannie E. Wilkerson, a native of 
Mississippi, who died July 15, 1886, leaving seven children. In 
August, 1887. Mr. Reed married Mary S. Day, who was born in Virginia 
and reared in Mississippi, where her father died. She came to Crawford 
County about 1878. Mr. Reed left the county of his birth in 1876, and 
coming to Crawford County. Ark., has since lived in Alma Township. He 
now owns sixty-five acres, two and a half miles east of Alma, and is a 
prosperous farmer. Mr. Reed belongs to the Methodist Church, and his 
wife to the Christian Church. He belongs to the K. of H., Alma Lodge 
No. 3.166. In politics he is a Democrat, and he cast his first 
presidential vote for Breekenridge, in 1860. 

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