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George W. M. Reed, son of Anthony Alvis and Martha (Martin) Reed, was born in the Arkansas Territory, April 1, 1830, in what is now Franklin County, near Roseville. Anthony A. Reed was born near Pendleton Court House, B. C., and his father, George W. Reed, immigrated to Kentucky at a very early day, and made a home near Elizabethtown, Hardin County. The history of this branch of the Reed family in America dates back to the settlement of four brothers, natives of Wales, and their families, in the Shenandoah Valley, Va., in very early times. Maj. John Reed, one of the brothers, was he who commanded the American forces in the War for Independence, and fought the immortal Ferguson at King’s Mountain. George W. Reed, one of the other brothers, made a settlement at a place known as Reed’s Post-office and Reed’s Creek in 1811. Three of his sons served in the War of 1812, from Bradley County, Tenn., and one of the sons, Alvis Reed, made a settlement on the Lovelace Purchase, Indian Territory, and afterward he settled seven miles southwest of Fayetteville in 1830. He died upon the Elkhorn battle-field December 5, 1862. John Reed died at Paint Rock. Ala., and George W. died at Lafayette, Ga. Mrs. Martha (Martin) Reed, mother of subject, was the daughter of Capt. Joseph Martin, who commanded a company at the battle of New Orleans, in the War of 1812, from Wilson County, Tenn., and who died in Scott County, Ark. George W. M. Reed spent his boyhood days in Arkansas, and at the age of thirty-two years began merchandising, which industry he has continued for over twenty years, retiring and leaving it in the hands of Ferguson & Reed, brother­in-law and son. He has four sons and four daughters living: Mary Elizabeth (wife of William H. Lewis, merchant of Cane Hill, Ark.), Noah (deceased), Sophia (deceased), John A. (of the firm of Reed & Ferguson, merchants of Fayetteville, his successors), Maggie (wife of Pressley A. Crawford), Lina, George W. M. (an attorney by profession, at Fayetteville, associated with his father, James Lafayette, William L. and Maud. Mr. Reed served as clerk of the circuit court for six years, and in the late war he was captain of Company D, First Arkansas Cavalry, United States Army, and remained with the same until cessation of hostilities. He was postmaster at Fayetteville for some time, and has been land agent and pension agent for a number of years. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a G. A. R. member of Travis Post.