Andrew B. Reed

Andrew B. Reed, a progressive farmer of Washington County, 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 Washington

County. 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 Washington County. 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 Washington County, 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.

REED, A.B. Mr. A.B. Reed of Greasy Valley was born June 14, 1830, on Cane Hill, near the present town of Cane Hill and died April 23, 1906, aged nearly 76 years. Mr. Reed professed faith in Christ at the age of twenty years, and joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church -- unreadable --, and in which he served as a elder for 30 or 35 years. He had enjoyed good health all of his life until about five years ago, his health began to fail. He recognized that death was near at hand, but its approach gave him no fear. The remains were buried in the Cox graveyard on Fly Creek, the funeral services being conducted by Rev. N.D. Hanks. (Signed) A Friend [Prairie Grove Herald 5/24/1906]