Samuel James Standridge served in Company C First Arkasas Regiment Infantry Volunteers, Union. Description at enlistment: he was five feet, ten inches tall, complexion light, eyes dark. (He said they were yellow, and his hair was dark. He had a scar on the top of his right ear. He said it was split open by a wild cat or some other varment. He was asleep when he was attacked by the beast). Enlistment papers state he was born at Jackson Co., Illinois, but the pension lists him as being born in Newton County, Arkansas. He was married to Sarah Ann Cagle who was born about 1843 in Tennessee and they had a family of fourteen children. They were married by Jeremiah Meek who was a Justice of the Peace in Newton County, Arkansas, March 1864.

Samuel James Standridge was born January 29, 1843 Richland Creek, Newton County, Arkansas to Samuel Standridge and Mahala Morgan. Samuel James Standridge died September 25, 1913, Salisaw, Oklahoma.

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