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Samuel Anthony, farmer and stock raiser, is a native of Missouri, but came to Arkansas in 1860. He remained but three or four months, when he returned to Missouri, and after a short time again returned to Arkansas, Jackson County, in 1861, where he remained until the following autumn, and then enlisted in the Fourteenth Regiment of Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry, serving as a scout for about two years. In 1863 he organized a company of scouts, reported to Gen. Sterling Price, then stationed at Little Rock, Ark., and served to the end of the war as captain of that company. In 1866 he purchased 240 acres of land, partially improved, adding by subsequent purchases, until he now owns 720 acres, on which he raises all kinds of produce known to American agriculture. September 12, 1872, he married Miss Mary A. Parmer, a native of Tennessee. They have had eight children, four of whom are still living: Emma (born in October, 1874), Ethel (born February 6, 1883), Katie (born May 25, 1885) and Edgar (born August 15, 1887). Mr. Anthony is a member of Buck Skull Lodge No. 101, A. F. & A. M. Our subject’s father was a native of Virginia, as was also his grandfather; he married Miss Unica Shepherd, a native of Missouri. Mr. Anthony’s maternal grandparents traveled on foot from Georgia to Missouri, locating in the southeastern part, near Cape Girardeau.