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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Chicot 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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Edwin S. Hilliard, planter and merchant of Grand Lake, Ark. He whose name heads this sketch is very prominent in the county of Chicot. He was born in Henry County, Ky., in 1850, and is a son of Isaac H. and Mariam (Brannin) Hilliard, the former being a native of North Carolina and Virginia, and the latter of the Blue-Grass State. The father was a planter and merchant, being one of the firm of Hilliard, Summers & Co., of New Orleans, La. The only two surviving children born to their union were Isaac H. (who died in 1882) and the subject of the present sketch. Edwin’s early life was spent partly in Arkansas and partly in Kentucky, where he attended school through most of the years until he reached manhood. He was compelled to begin life for himself at an early age, because of the war which had financially ruined his father. For two years he worked in Louisville, Ky., and in 1869 moved to Chicot County, where he has resided ever since, and where he owns some valuable lands. Besides the other branches of business in which he is engaged, Mr. Hilliard is beginning to raise stock, and has a store where he sells general merchandise. In politics he is a Democrat, but takes no active part. He is a man of great public spirit, and very popular in the community in which he resides.

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This family biography is one of 34 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Chicot County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Chicot County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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