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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Grant County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  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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Seaborn D. Reese, ex-sheriff and farmer of Merry Green Township, is well known to the residents of this township and, perhaps, no one enjoys a better or more favorable acquaintance. He was born in Wilkinson County, Ga., on July 22, 1821, and is the son of Aaron and Charity (Delk) Reese, natives of Georgia, who were married there. Mr. Reese was a planter. His grandfather was a merchant and clerk of court for years. The former died about 1827, and his wife a number of years before. The subject of this sketch, being left an orphan when quite young, was adopted by an uncle, Seaborn Delk, and remained with him until his death, which occurred when Seaborn Reese was a youth. He married in his native State, and was engaged in Wilkinson County as a planter for a number of years, moving in 1859 to Arkansas and taking up his residence in the neighborhood of Sheridan, in what is now Grant County. He purchased a large farm, cleared and improved it, and has bought from time to time until he now owns 2,000 acres of fine timbered land. When the war broke out he entered the Confederate service in the Eleventh Arkansas Cavalry, and remained till the close of the war, participating in a number of skirmishes but in no general engagement. The people of Grant County, realizing his ability, and knowing what was to their interest, made him justice of the peace before the war, and in 1874 elected him sheriff, he filling that office four terms. He has been engaged in the real estate business for some years, with encouraging success. There are seven children in his family, four sons and three daughters, all married but one, the youngest. Mr. and Mrs. Reese are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which the former is steward. He is a member of the Masonic lodge. Grant County is fortunate in having such men as Mr. Reese for its citizens, as it is such as he who aid in transforming the villages into prosperous towns and cities, and the country at large into thriving communities.

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This family biography is one of 68 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Grant County, Arkansas published in 1889.  For the complete description, click here: Grant County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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