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S. H. Reed was born in De Soto County, Miss., in 1837, and is a son of John and Ann S. (Rossel) Reed, natives of North Carolina and Virginia, respectively. When nine years of age Mr. Reed was taken by his parents to Hardeman County, Tenn., where he was reared. After his marriage in Alabama he settled in De Soto county, Miss., where he died in 1849, and his wife survived him until 1853. James B. Reed, the grandfather, was born in North Carolina soon after his parents came to America, and was of Scotch-Irish descent. He died in Prairie County at the advanced age of one hundred and four. Our subject was the sixth of a family of nine children, and was educated at the neighborhood school-house and at Holly Springs, Miss. In September, 1861, he joined Company B, under Wirt Adams, serving throughout the war, although not on active duty except for two years, on account of disability. In 1858 he married Fannie E. Wilkerson, a native of Mississippi, who died July 15, 1886, leaving seven children. In August, 1887, Mr. Reed married Mary S. Day, who was born in Virginia and reared in Mississippi, where her father died. She came to Crawford County about 1878. Mr. Reed left the county of his birth in 1876, and coming to Crawford County, Ark., has since lived in Alma Township. He now owns sixty-five acres, two and a half miles east of Alma, and is a prosperous farmer. Mr. Reed belongs to the Methodist Church, and his wife to the Christian Church. He belongs to the K. of H., Alma Lodge No. 3,166. In politics he is a Democrat, and he cast his first presidential vote for Breckenridge, in 1860.