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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Columbia 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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A. E. Davis. For a period now of about forty years, he whose name heads this sketch has been a resident of Columbia County, and during this time he has enjoyed a reputation as an honorable upright man, and a solid, substantial and thoroughly reliable agriculturist. He owes his nativity to Georgia, where he was born in January, 1835, and is the son of Absalom T. Davis and wife, nee Martha Underwood, the former a native of Virginia, of Welsh descent, and the latter of North Carolina, of Irish descent. The life of A. E. Davis, up to the age of seventeen years, was passed in Alabama, but in 1852 he accompanied his parents to Arkansas, locating in Columbia County, and two years afterward commenced life on his own responsibility by engaging in agricultural pursuits on his own account. In July, 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate cause, and among the principal engagements in which he participated may be mentioned Arkansas Post, St. Charles, Prairie Landing, DeWitt, Clarendon, and Jenkins’ Ferry. At this latter battle he was slightly wounded on left hip and on the back of his head, and these wounds cause him trouble still. After the surrender he returned to his home and resumed the peaceful pursuit of farming. The same year he purchased his present farm, then but slightly improved, and by his energy and industry he has brought it to its present high state of cultivation. January 4, 1860, witnessed his marriage with Miss Amanda Phillips, born in Georgia in 18—, and their married life has been blessed with three children, two of whom are still living: Absalom T. (a farmer of this township), and John P. (also a farmer, cultivating 120 acres which he owns in this township). Thirty four years ago Mr. and Mrs. Davis united with the Missionary Baptist church, and they are still worthy members of that body. In his political views the former is a stanch Democrat, and he is conceded to be one of the leading men in his township.

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This family biography is one of 106 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Columbia County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Columbia County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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