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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Hempstead County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890. 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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F. B. Garner has been familiar with farm life from his earliest youth, and ever since he attained his eighteenth year, he has been engaged in tilling the soil on his own responsibility. His birth occurred in Georgia, in 1835, and there all his early life was spent, and his education, a somewhat limited one, received. In 1855 he concluded to make a change of location, and came to Arkansas, from Cass County, Tex., whither he had moved a number of years earlier, and upon his arrival here, he purchased a good farm of 170 acres, which he has since devoted principally to the raising of cotton and corn, the yield of the former being about one bale to the acre, and of the latter twenty bushels. All other farm products can be raised with but little trouble, and Southern Arkansas seems to be the land of delicious fruits of all kinds. Miss Elizabeth Porterfield, a daughter of Nelson Porterfield, a pioneer planter of Georgia, who now resides in Cass County, Tex., became his wife in 1853, and their union has been blessed in the birth of a son—Nielson, who married Rebecca Fuller, of Hempstead County, Ark. In 1862 Mr. Garner enlisted in the Confederate army, becoming a member of Company H, Twenty-eighth Louisiana Regiment, and was in the engagements at Franklin, Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, and numerous skirmishes. He was so fortunate as to escape being wounded or captured, and finally received his discharge. He is a member of the Baptist Church, a Democrat, politically, and is a liberal contributor to schools, churches and other worthy enterprises. His father, T. W. Garner, was a farmer by occupation, took part in the Creek and Seminole Indian War, and died in 1879, an earnest Christian.
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