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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Nevada 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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Lee R. Hendrix, an influential farmer of Alabama Township, was born in South Carolina about 1833, and as the true strength of any county depends, in a great measure, upon the popularity and success of its citizens, a history of Nevada County could not be complete without a description of the leading events in the life of him whose name heads this sketch. His parents, Lee and Nelley (McKinney) Hendrix, died while he was quite young. He was raised and educated in the State of Georgia, and married there on April 30, 1857, to Miss Rebecca Jane Hatch, who was born in Georgia, May 17, 1842. They are the parents of the following children, viz.: John W., Zion M., Sophrona M., Milton Compton, Frances L. (dead), Ruthie R. (wife of Milburn Rider), Claranda L., James T. S., Charley R. S. M., Amanda P., Effie R., Millie C, Albert B. (dead), and Martha R.L. Mr. Hendrix moved from Georgia to the place where he now resides November 1, 1869. He owns over 1,000 acres of valuable land in all in Nevada, and some in Hempstead and Columbia Counties. The home farm is highly cultivated, and is thirty miles from the county seat. The subject of this sketch is a Master Mason, and is also a school director, an office which he has held for eight years. He and Mrs. Hendrix are devout Christians and members of the Christian Church.

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This family biography is one of 96 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Nevada County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Nevada County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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