To request a copy of this photo for your own personal use, please contact our state coordinator. If you are not a family member or the original photographer — please refrain from copying or distributing this photo to other websites.
Thank you for visiting the Arkansas Gravestone Photo Project. On this site you can upload gravestone photos, locate ancestors and perform genealogy research. If you have a relative buried in Arkansas, we encourage you to upload a digital image using our Submit a Photo page. Contributing to this genealogy archive helps family historians and genealogy researchers locate their relatives and complete their family tree.
Submitted: 6/7/12 • Approved: 2/15/13 • Last Updated: 2/18/13 • R707907-G0-S3
CORPORAL CSA
2nd Regiment Tennessee Infantry
Civil War Confederate
December 25, 1842 - September 1, 1877
*Source - www.nps.gov/civilwar.com
*Obituary
Fayetteville Democrat
Thursday, October 20, 1977
REESE, Rufus M. - The subject of this article was born near Gallatin, Sumner county, Tennessee on the 25th day of December 1842. Though but a youth when the cloud of war swept over our land he nevertheless went forth with the first of his state and on many battle-fields proved his devotion to the cause of the South and bore many marks of the severe contests through which he passed. After the surrender he returned with his surviving comrades to his native home and began the study of medicine. In this profession he graduated at Baltimore, Maryland and returning to his native state engaged in the practice. On the 22d day of February 1869 he married Miss Maggie Ellis, daughter of R.C. Ellis, who now lives near Gallatin. In the fall of 1873 he moved to Washington county, Arkansas and located at this place {Cincinnati} which is near the line of the Cherokee Nation, twenty miles west of Fayetteville. It was at this place he met with a sudden and bloody death. On Saturday, the first day of September last, a disagreement in a settlement occurred between himself and a man named Newton Noblett. Unfortunately friends of the parties knew nothing of the matter until too late or advice and counsel might have saved a life and thus shielded a wife and children from the sorrows of widowhood and orphanage. But it was not so permitted. In the hurry of excitement, before a hand could be raised, a ball from a rifle in the hands of Noblett sped through the Doctor's heart. He fell, sighed, and died. The homicide escaped but come in next day and surrendered. He now awaits, after preliminary investigation, the action of the higher court. Dr. Reese, followed by a long train of sympathizing friends, was born to his grave on Sunday, the day after his death. A wife, three children and, as we are informed, an aged mother have thus been bereaved. It is hard to administer consolation to a wounded heart. God alone can bind up such wounds and make them whole again. T.C. Welch, Cincinnati, Washington Co., Ark.
Contributed on 6/7/12 by judyfrog
Email This Contributor
Suggest a Correction
Record #: 707907