Washington Co., AR - Biographies - Andrew B. Reed *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: The Goodspeed Publishing Co Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org *********************************************** Andrew B. Reed, a progressive farmer of , Ark., and native of the same, was born on the 14th of June, 1830, and is a son of William and Margaret (Robinson) Reed. They were married in Ohio, the mother's native State, and about 1829 moved to Arkansas, and a year later to . Here the father died about 1845. He was an elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and became the father of eight sons and two daughters; six of his sons are living, and reside in . Andrew B. Reed was reared on a farm in Cane Hill Township, and well remembers the very crude implements that were used in tilling the soil and in reaping the grain in his boyhood days. He remained with his mother until he attained his twentieth year, and then began farming for himself, and after his marriage, which occurred in September, 1851, he purchased some land in Cane Hill Township, but at the end of three years sold it and began improving other places. In 1884 he purchased his present home property, which consists of 249 acres, with about 100 acres under cultivation, and besides this has another tract of land consisting of seventy acres, with thirty in cultivation. He has a fine orchard of about twenty acres, with 1,000 trees all in good bearing condition on this farm, and an orchard of six acres on the home place. His wife, Melissa Jane Scott, was a native of , and a daughter of Nimrod Scott. She died about 1874. leaving four daughters and one son: Margaret, wife of John Nelson, of California: Lizzie, wife of Edward Shirley; Joseph F., Sallie and Anna. Mr. Reed was married in 1876 to Mrs. Elizabeth A. (Pesterfield) Smith, a native of Tennessee. They are rearing an orphan boy by the name of Samuel Clay Reed, whom they took in his infancy.