Henry RIEFF

  Noted events in his life were:

• Biography. Sallie Wilson was the daughter of Washington Lafayette Wilson. She was born in Indiana in 1835 and married Henry Rieff, a well known Fayetteville merchant in July of 1855 in Washington County. Henry was born 23 October 1823 in Tennessee and died 29 August 1874. He was appointed Colonel of the 20th Regiment of the Arkansas Militia, CSA, and raised a militia company in Fayetteville called the Washington Rifle Guards. According to the Nashville Christian Advocate of 1874-1876, "He kept up family worship to the day of his death." Interment with Masonic honors was at Rieff's Chapel Cemetery. On the 1860 Arkansas Census, the couple is shown living in Washington County with children Henry 4 and Kate 2. On the 1870 Census the couple still lives in Washington County and with the following children: H. M. Rieff 13, J. W. Rieff 10, L. H. Rieff 8, and C. M. Rieff 2.

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Henry married Sarah O WILSON, daughter of Washington Lafayette WILSON and Catherine Elizabeth DRYSDALE, July of 1855 in Washington County, AR. (Sarah O WILSON was born in Jul 1835 in IN.)