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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Lonoke County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889. 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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Philip F. Eagle. Among the other early pioneers of Lonoke County, were David and Elizabeth (Long) Eagle, who came from Tennessee in 1850, locating in what is now Lonoke County. Here they began to hew from the surrounding wilderness a home for themselves and their family. Among the children who accompanied them from their eastern home, was Philip F., who was born in Maury County, Tenn., April 25, 1825. At the time of their settlement here, the present fertile and productive country was an unbroken wilderness, and in this barren locality, surrounded by all the dangers and privations of a pioneer life, these industrious and ambitious people toiled on until death ceased their labors. Their names have gone down to posterity as brave men and women, to whose unselfish and untiring energy is due many of the advantages which the present generation enjoy. Philip F. Eagle has been a resident of Lonoke County since 1850, and by his industry and economy has won for himself a handsome fortune. He owns 700 acres of land in this county, and is accounted a man of worth and influence, being esteemed by the entire community.
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