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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Clark County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Hon. Goodin Deaton. The estate which Mr. Deaton now cultivates embraces 520 acres of land, a considerable portion of which is under cultivation and well adapted to the purposes of general farming. In the management of his farm he displays excellent judgment, and he is acknowledged by all to be one of the leading agriculturists of this region. He was born in Montgomery County, N.C, June 3, 1814, and is a son of Basil and Barbara (Stuart) Deaton, natives, also, of North Carolina, and early emigrants to Tennessee, in which State the father died. The mother passed from life in Arkansas. Of a family of four children born to them two are now living, Goodin being the eldest. At the age of sixteen years he was taken to Tennessee by his parents, and in that State he obtained a good education. In 1849 he located in Clark County, Ark., near Amity, and here he entered the first tract of land which was entered in that community, and there made his home until the fall of 1886, at which time he moved to the place where he now resides. In 1882 he was elected to the State Legislature, serving one term, and he has also filled the positions of justice of the peace and county judge, holding the last-named position two years, when he was reconstructed. He is one of the old settlers of the county, and has witnessed its development from a wilderness to its present admirable state of cultivation. He was first married to Miss Lucinda Jackson, by whom he had a family of sixteen children, eight now living, and his present wife was formerly a Mrs. Amanda E. (Malcomb) Williams, by whom he has six children, four of whom survive. Mr. and Mrs. Deaton are members of the Baptist Church, and socially he is a Mason.

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