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H. W. Moses was born in Alabama in 1831, but was reared in Louisiana, where he obtained a private school education. Owing to the early death of his father, Samuel S. Moses, who was a farmer, a member of the Baptist Church, and who died in 1846, he was compelled to put his shoulder to the wheel at a very early day, and until their marriage supported three sisters and a crippled brother. January 1, 1850, he came to Arkansas, but the first few years were very discouraging, owing to a great deal of sickness in his family. In nine years’ time he paid one bill for his wife, which amounted to $2,500. On May 13, 1862, he joined the Confederate army, and was with Price on his Missouri raid, participating in many battles and skirmishes. He was captured October 12, 1864, on the Big Blue River, in the Territory of Kansas, and after being kept in captivity in St. Louis for about twelve days he was taken to Alton, thence to Rock Island, Ill., December 24, 1864, thence to Richmond, Va., where he was paroled and started for home May 2, 1865. He resumed farming after the war, and now has a fine farm of 360 acres which is well adapted to the raising of all the cereals, cotton, vegetables, etc. His marriage to Miss Susan C. Raleigh took place on June 26, 1854, and to them a family of nine children have been born: James W. (who married Miss Emma McDowell), William A. (married to Miss Arminta Collins), S. Samson (married to Miss Nora Downs), John H. H. (married to Miss Dessie Betts), George R. (who died October 22, 1884), Lonny C, Patrick F., Martha J. (wife of J. R. Yocum) and Henrietta (wife of E. Foster). The mother of these children is a daughter of John Raleigh, of North Carolina, who was a grandson of Sir Walter Raleigh, the North American explorer. On December 25, 1887, Mr. Moses opened a general mercantile establishment at Lively, his stock of goods being valued at about $2,000, and he does an annual business of $5,000. He is a Democrat, a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and belongs to the A. F. & A. M.