Benton Co., AR - Biographies - Rev. F. M. Seamster

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Rev. F. M. Seamster was born in Schuyler County, Mo., in 1848, and is a 
son of Rev. Williamson Seamster, who was born in Virginia in 1817. He 
was reared in his native State, and afterward went to Kentucky, where 
he was united in marriage to Miss Susan Rigsbee, a native also of 
Virginia. They lived in Kentucky until 1837, and then moved to 
Missouri, where they spent the remainder of their days. The mother's 
death occurred in 1874, and the father afterward married Mary A. 
Pendergraff, by whom three children were born to him. He died in 1884. 
Sixteen children blessed his first marriage. Rev. F. M. Seamster was 
educated in Missouri, and after coming to Arkansas in 1879 became a 
minister of the Missionary Baptist Church, and has been actively 
engaged in that calling up to the present time. He is at the present 
time pastor of two churches on Pea Ridge, and has done much to further 
the cause of Christianity. He was married in 1873 to Miss Amanda 
Dunagan, a daughter of Elder Dunagan, of Rogers, Ark., and by her is 
the father of five children Carrie L., John William, Cora E., George 
M. and Robert M. Mr. Seamster is now living at Avoca, where he has a 
good farm and one of the largest orchards of small fruits in Benton 
County. He is a Democrat, also a Master Mason.