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Samuel Allen Jefferson was born in Washington County, Ark., in 1838, and is a son of George H. and Elizabeth (Moore) Jefferson, who were born in Virginia and Tennessee in 1802 and 1810, respectively. The mother died in 1883. The father was of German-English descent, and was a young man when he became a resident of Trigg County, Ky. He was married in Bedford County, Tenn., and in 1885 located in Washington County, Ark., and in 1841 came to Benton County. He began keeping hotel in Bentonville in 1842, and in connection with this kept a cabinet-shop. His death occurred in 1846. His wife was a daughter of Samuel Moore, who was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was with Gen. Jackson at the battle of New Orleans. Samuel Allen Jefferson is one of three surviving members of a family of ten children, and was reared and educated in Benton County. In 1862 he was married to Miss Joan Neal, born in Missouri in 1839, a daughter of Daniel Neal, and by her became the father of eleven children: Bartlett A., Georgette (wife of C. C. Huffman), Mary J., William T., Mabel, Pearl, George (deceased), Charles, Pierce (deceased), Minnie and Edna. Mr. Jefferson has a good farm of 160 acres. He is a Democrat in his political views. May 21, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, First Arkansas Cavalry, State troops, and in August of the same year enlisted in Company G, First Arkansas Cavalry, and was in the battles of Pea Ridge, Prairie Grove, Poison Spring, Mansfield and others. At the battle of Oak Hill he was severely wounded in the left thigh, and was obliged to go on crutches for nine months. He served four years, and surrendered at Fort Smith, Ark.