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Samuel Garner and his brother Milton came to Jackson Co, Arkansas from Tennessee-Alabama area about 1835 via Missouri. Samuel opened a successful mercantile business of shipping cotton, cattle, hogs, fur, down the White river to Memphis and New Orleans. Samuel and William Henry Morris were partners at Elizabeth, Jackson,Arkansas and had a very successful business in this sparsely settled area at the time. court records of Jackson co. Arkansas has records of deeds, probates of interest to this family. Women can become members of the DAR on the father of Samuel-Sturdy Garner, who served from Virginia. Samuel served in the War of 1812 from Alabama area-Madison. Information from "Bevan"-Reminiscences of Early Jackson co. Samuel is also found in boone Co. Missouri on the 1830 census. He later was of Green co. Mo. His second wife Myrel Williams a widow of a Williams is found as late as 1880 on the census in Independence Co Ark.
Sources
- History of Jackson Co AR
- Find-a-grave #203267040
- Garner-Keene families of Northern Neck, Virginia, by Ruth Ritchie and Sudie Rucker Wood.
DNA
- Paternal relationship is confirmed by a triangulated group on GEDmatch who share a 10.7 cM segment on chromosome 10, consisting of Melissa (Dever) Dever-Mount, GEDmatch kit # A478157, and Joe Smitherman, her 6th cousin 2x removed, GEDmatch kit # ND5977225, and HH, her 8th cousin 1x removed, GEDmatch kit # SS3635162. (Joe and HH are 5th cousins 3x removed.) Their most-recent common ancestors are Thomas Garner and Mary Bushnell, the 7x great grandparents of Melissa (Dever) Dever-Mount and 5x great grandparents of Joe Smitherman and 8x great grandparents of HH.