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Samuel Franklin Cheek

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Samuel Franklin Cheek

Born: January 1832 in Stokes County, North Carolina
Died: 1902 in Belva, Logan, Arkansas

Married: Elizabeth A. Frazier

Children:

1. William F.
   b. 1867, Peavine, Walker, Georgia
   d. 1891 or 1892 in Logan County, Arkansas
2. Mary Etta
   b. October 31, 1868, Peavine, Walker, Georgia
   d. December 21, 1945, Spiro, LeFlore, Oklahoma
3. John Leonard
   b. October 4, 1871, Hickman Township, Scott, Arkansas
   d. August 10, 1949
4. Laillie T.
   b. 1875, Hickman Township, Scott, Arkansas
   d. before 1900
5. Georgia Elizabeth
   b. October 16, 1877, Hickman Township, Scott, Arkansas
   d. October 31, 1945, Mountain Top, Franklin, Arkansas
6. Annie Jane
   b. October 9, 1880, Hickman Township, Scott, Arkansas
   d. February 23, 1966, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

 Samuel was born in Stokes County, North Carolina in 1832.  He served in Company B of the 5^th Tennessee Mounted Infantry for the Federal Cavalry during the Civil War. The unit was mustered in at Cleveland, Tennessee on September 23, 1864 and mustered out at Nashville on July 17, 1865. Samuel enlisted as a private and was promoted to a sergeant. At the end of the war he moved to Georgia where he and Elizabeth married in about 1866. Elizabeth, the daughter of John and Anna Payne Frazier, was born in Peavine in Walker County, Georgia in 1843. Samuel’s unit patrolled the area where Elizabeth lived during the war. They could have met during the war and married when Samuel returned at the end of the war.

Samuel and Elizabeth first two children, William F. (born in 1867) and Mary Etta (Oct 31, 1868), were born in Georgia. Their third child, Leonard, was born in Arkansas October 4, 1871. Their other three children Laillie, Georgia Elizabeth, and Annie Jane were also born in Arkansas.

Samuel and Elizabeth must have moved from Georgia to Arkansas in 1869. When the 1870 census was taken they were living in Hickman Township via a Waldron post office in Scott County, Arkansas. Elizabeth’s mother Anna Payne Frazier, her sister Sarah, and two brothers John and Thomas Frazier and their wives moved with them to Arkansas. Elizabeth’s father John had died before 1850 and is buried in Rock Springs, in Walker County Georgia. When the 1870 census was taken Elizabeth’s mother and her brother Thomas and wife Nancy were living with them. In the same area Elizabeth’s sister Sarah was living with their brother John and wife Nancy. They were living in Sugar Creek Township in Logan County when the 1880 census was taken.

When the census was taken in June of 1900 Samuel was living with their son Leonard in Waldron, and Elizabeth was living with their daughter Mary Etta Mullins in Carolan. A 1902 obituary in the Wasp, a Scott County Newspaper read: Mr. S. F. Cheek, an old man, died very suddenly at Belva on Monday of last week.

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