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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Saline 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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Reuben Garrett is the son of S. B. and E. L. (Smith) Garrett, and was born in Dyer Township, Saline County, Ark., in May, 1855, being the eldest of a family of eight children. His father came to Saline County when a young man and settled in what is now Saline Township, where he was married. S. B. Garrett and wife are both living, and reside on a farm in Dyer Township, where Mr. Reuben Garrett was reared. The latter commenced farming for himself at twenty-one years of age on the farm where he still lives, and since then has bought a farm of eighty-seven acres, forty acres of which were under cultivation. In 1879 he entered into partnership with John Curtis, and erected a large cotton-gin, which he has continued to operate since that time, having also a good mill in connection therewith. In 1873 Mr. Garrett married Mary Genbry, a daughter of William and Sarah (Howard) Genbry, both of whom are deceased. By this union they have one daughter, Ida. Mrs. Garrett is a member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Garrett has always given liberally to enterprises tending to the good of this county. His career has been a successful one, and though passed quietly and without especial ostentation, has not been without its influence.
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