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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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P. C. Frederick, a well-known resident of Hempstead County, Ark., is a North Carolinian, born in 1829, a son of William K. Frederick, who was well known throughout Duplin County, N. C., as a successful physician, and who was a Royal Arch Mason, dying in 1839. P. C. Frederick was reared in Alabama, and although his school days were not many, what education he has was received in a private school. At the age of twenty-two years he began an independent career, and remained in the State of Alabama until the close of the war. In 1861 he joined Company G, Thirty-seventh Alabama Infantry, and the first general engagement in which he took part was at Iuka, the next at Corinth, then followed Missionary Ridge and the Atlanta campaign, being with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, who was trying to repel Sherman on his march to the sea. Prior to this, however, Mr. Frederick was in the siege of Vicksburg, was captured, but shortly afterward was paroled. After the siege of Atlanta, he returned home, and for some time was engaged in providing supplies for the State troops of Alabama, but was afterward disbanded at Montgomery, Ala. In 1873 he removed to Washington County, Tex., and in 1877 came to Arkansas and purchased 160 acres of land, on which he has since lived, and which yields three-fourths of a bale of cotton to the acre. His farm now comprises 640 acres, all of which is exceptionally fertile land. In 1886 he raised ninety-one bales of cotton on 120 acres, and in 1883 he had forty acres which produced fifty bales. Corn averages about thirty bushels to the acre. In 1853 he was married to Miss Brice Dickerson, by whom he has one child, Bertie, wife of a Mr. Allen. After the death of his first wife he was married in 1870 to Mrs. Thayler, nee Bentori, of Alabama. Mr. Frederick is a member of the A. F. & A. M., a Democrat, politically, and has held the office of justice of the peace, and has been school director in his district for nine years.

 

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This family biography is one of 131 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Hempstead County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Hempstead County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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