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Submitted: 6/6/11 • Approved: 6/7/11 • Last Updated: 8/26/12 • R540129-G0-S3
3 Feb 1838 (Cane Hill, Washington, Arkansas) - 9 Apr 1912 Washington, Arkansas
Spouse: Elizabeth E. Holt Reed
Parents William Reed & Margaret Robertson
Private 1st Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry Union
Samuel King Reed, a member of the notorious West Forkers.
An 1882 issue of the Police Gazette suggests that all was not calm and quiet in Fayetteville during the 1870s and early 1880s.In 1878 a portion of the Van Winkle Hotel and the Reed & Ferguson's Bank were set ablaze by night raiders. Samuel is reputed to have been one of the men who set fire to the Van Winkle Hotel.
Contributed on 6/6/11 by tslundberg
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