Washington Co., AR - Biographies - George W. M. Reed

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George W. M. Reed, son of Anthony Alvis and Martha (Martin) Reed, was 
born in the Arkansas Territory, April 1, 1830, in what is now Franklin 
County, near Roseville. Anthony A. Reed was born near Pendleton Court 
House, S. C., and his father, George W. Reed, immigrated to Kentucky 
at a very early day, and made a home near Elizabethtown, Hardin 
County. The history of this branch of the Reed family in America dates 
back to the settlement of four brothers, natives of Wales, and their 
families, in the Shenandoah Valley, Va., in very early times. Maj. 
John Reed, one of the brothers, was he who commanded the American 
forces in the War for Independence, and fought the immortal Ferguson 
at King's Mountain. George W. Reed, one of the other brothers, made a 
settlement at a place known as Reed's Post-office and Reed's Creek in 
1811. Three of his sons served in the War of 1812, from Bradley 
County, Tenn., and one of the sons. Alvis Reed, made a settlement on 
the Lovelace Purchase, Indian Territory, and afterward he settled 
seven miles southwest of Fayetteville [p.1008] in 1830. He died upon 
the Elkhorn battle-field December 5, 1862. John Reed died at Paint 
Rock, Ala., and George W. died at Lafayette, Ga. Mrs. Martha (Martin) 
Reed, mother of subject. was the daughter of Capt. Joseph Martin, who 
commanded a company at the battle of New Orleans, in the War of 1812-
14, from Wilson County, Tenn., and who died in Scott County, Ark. 
George W. M. Reed spent his boyhood days in Arkansas, and at the age 
of thirty-two years began merchandising, which industry he has 
continued for over twenty years, retiring and leaving it in the hands 
of Ferguson & Reed, brother-in-law and son. He has four sons and four 
daughters living: Mary Elizabeth (wife of William M. Lewis, merchant 
of Cane Hill, Ark.), Noah (deceased), Sophia (deceased), John A. (of 
the firm of Reed & Ferguson, merchants of Fayetteville, his 
successors), Maggie (wife of Pressley A. Crawford), Lina, George W. M. 
(an attorney by profession, at Fayetteville, associated with his 
father), James Lafayette, William L. and Maud. Mr. Reed served as 
clerk of the circuit court for six years, and in the late war he was 
captain of Company D. First Arkansas Cavalry, United States Army, and 
remained with the same until cessation of hostilities. He was 
postmaster at Fayetteville for some time, and has been land agent and 
pension agent for a number of years. He is a member of the Masonic 
fraternity, and a G. A. R.-member of Travis Post.