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Samuel L. Larue was born in Kentucky in 1830. His grandparents, Samuel and Elizabeth (Waters) Larue, were natives of Virginia and of French and German descent respectively. In 1806 they moved from Virginia to Kentucky. They were wealthy farmers and slave-holders and died in 1840 and 1858. The maternal grandparents, James and Elizabeth (Waters) Castleman, were also natives of Virginia, who moved to Kentucky when young, and lived until their respective deaths in 1842 and 1854. They were also wealthy people, and owned a large number of slaves. The parents of our subject, Josiah and Mary (Castleman) Larue, were born in Virginia in 1804, and in Kentucky, in 1810, respectively. When young the father moved to Kentucky, where he married and engaged in farming the remainder of his life. To himself and wife thirteen children were born, nine of whom are living, and two are residents of this county, viz., our subject and James Larue. Mr. Samuel Larue received but a limited education during his youth, and began life for himself when twenty-one years of age. He left Kentucky when forty-one years old and came to Arkansas. Since then he has by industry and good management become the owner of 300 acres of land, 110 acres being well cultivated and improved, with a good residence and out-buildings. There are three tenement houses upon the home place, and his fruit farm contains 1,000 apple trees besides a large number of peach and plum trees. In 1851 Mr. Larue married Mary Burdine, who was born in Kentucky in 1830, and is the mother of seven children, all, with the exception of Mrs. Letitia Hubbs, of Texas, being residents of this county. The other children of our subject are Mrs. Elvira Lowett, Mrs. Frances Rainey, Mrs. Grace Swearingen, Christopher C., Mrs. Elizabeth Cluck and Mrs. Martha Johns. Mrs. Larue’s father, John Burdine, was born in 1812 and died in 1834. Of their fifteen children but two survive, viz.: Mrs. Larue and Mrs. Sarah Larue. Our subject, wife and four children are active members of the Missionary Baptist Church, and Mr. Larue belongs to the Masonic fraternity. Democratic principles were instilled in his mind when a youth, and he has always voted the Democratic ticket, his first presidential vote having been cast for Taylor in 1848.