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Capt. Augustus M. Reinhardt, farmer, stock raiser and horticulturist, Hickory Plains, Ark. This enterprising and progressive citizen was born in Lincoln County, N. C., October 20, 1825, and is the son of Hon. Michael and Mary (Moore) Reinhardt, both natives of North Carolina. Michael Reinhardt was a farmer up to 1846, when he moved to Marshall County, Miss., and there resided until his death, which occurred in 1852. He served one term as a member of the State senate, and held other positions of honor and trust, acquitting himself as an efficient, popular official, always laboring zealously for the best interests of his constituents. He also served in one of the old Indian wars. His wife died in 1828. Capt. Reinhardt went to Mississippi in the spring of 1845, and his father’s family moved out in the fall of the same year. They made a crop the following year, and remained there until 1852, farming in Marshall County, when they moved to Prairie, Ark., and bought land in Hickory Plains Township. They farmed here until the breaking out of the war, and were also engaged in the real-estate business for four years previous to that event. Capt. Reinhardt enlisted with the ‘‘Boys in Gray,” in March, 1862, first in Col. Turnbull’s infantry, and served in that capacity up to May, when he returned home. In 1863 he joined the cavalry, Col. Monroe’s regiment, and was commissioned captain in the First Regiment, serving until peace was declared. He participated in the fights at Mark’s Mill and Poison Springs, and also in a number of skirmishes. Returning home after the war, he engaged in farming and the real-estate business, being now the owner of 1,000 acres of land, with all but 160 acres in Prairie County. The home place consists of 600 acres, with 300 acres under cultivation, and the buildings on the same are substantial and pleasing to the eye. He has a beautiful yard, ornamented with trees, evergreens, shrubs and flowers, and his orchard, of about eighty acres, furnishes some of the finest peaches, apples, pears and plums to be found. He has a fine vineyard of about four acres, and shipped about 800 baskets from the same, but retaining for himself about as many more. He was first married in Prairie County in January, 1856, to Miss Mary Harshaw, sister of John Harshaw, whose sketch may be seen in this work. Mrs. Reinhardt was born and reared in Marshall County, Miss., and died August 28, 1881, leaving nine children: Henry, Anna (wife of Brainard Perkins), Mattie (widow of Mr. Jones), Mamie, Emmett, Clara, Sallie, John and William. Mr. Reinhardt took for his second wife Mrs. Sallie E. (Rayburn) Harrison, a native of Conway County, Md., where she was educated and married. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Reinhardt is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and is an elder in the same.