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Below is a family biography included in The History of Washington 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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George Sutton, harness manufacturer, and one of the wide-awake, thorough-going business men of Fayetteville, was born in this city February 5, 1848, and is the son of Seneca and Isabella (Houston) Sutton, natives of Kentucky and Missouri, respectively. The father was born and reared in Lincoln County, and learned the hatter’s business, which he followed for many years. In 1834 he married Miss Isabella Houston, and became the father of four children, two sons and two daughters: James T., a merchant and resident of Caston, Ind. T.; Mary and Isabella, who are now residing on the old homestead, and George, subject of this sketch. The father of these children moved to Missouri, and followed his trade in that State until l840, when he moved to Washington County, Ark., and here received his final summons October 25, 1857. His eldest son, James T., served in the Confederate army from 1862 to 1863, in the Northwestern Fifteenth Arkansas Infantry, McCreas’ battalion. He was married in Fayetteville, Ark., to Miss Francena L. Martin, a native of Arkansas, and the daughter of William Martin (deceased). This union resulted in the birth of two sons and a daughter: William Seneca, Henry Stevinson and Mary Bell. William Seneca Sutton is superintendent of the public schools of Houston, Tex., and Mary Bell is a graduate of the Peabody Institute, of Nashville, and is now a teacher in the schools at Morrillton, Ark. George Sutton reached his majority in Washington County, Ark., learned the harness-maker’s trade, and has followed the same up to the present, being prominently identified with that industry in the county. He was married to Miss Maggie Cooper, a native of Mississippi, and to them have been born two daughters, Mabel and Bertha. Mr. Sutton is a stockholder in the Fair Association, and he and Mrs. Sutton are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, she being an active worker in the same.
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