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Samuel A. Morgan is a native of Mississippi and is a son of Charles H. and Elenor A. (Galaher) Morgan, also originally from that State. Mr. Morgan was a farmer of Mississippi, and in 1853 or 1854 removed to Arkansas, settling near St. Charles, where he died the following year. His wife died October 16, 1878, at the age of fifty. She was married after her first husband’s death to the Hon. A. H. Almond, who died in 1868. He was county and probate judge of Arkansas County for a number of years under Democratic rule. There was one child by this union, which died at the age of eight years. Her last husband was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to which she also belonged. Samuel A. is the eldest and the only one living of three sons. James W. Morgan, his brother, died at the age of twenty-five, just in the bloom of manhood. The other two, Samuel A. and J. W., were born in Marshall County, Miss., in 1849 and 1852, respectively, but have lived in this county since four and five years of age. Samuel A. was married in 1870 to Miss A. E. Burnet, a daughter of Lemuel F. Burnet, one of the oldest settlers in this county. He was born in New Jersey in 1810, but was reared in Pennsylvania and Ohio. He was apprenticed to a gunsmith a few years before he became of age, and worked at the trade until twenty-one years old. In 1835 he came to Arkansas, remaining in Little Rock one year, thence going to Desha County, where he worked at his trade until he became blind and could not attend to his work. He married Jane E. Coose, a native of Tennessee and a daughter of John Coose. Mr. and Mrs. Burnet were the parents of fifteen children, five of whom are still living. Mr. Morgan bought his present place in 1878, and moved on it in 1881. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and are the parents of seven children, of whom four are living. He is a prominent Democrat and a highly respected citizen.