When Samuel David Reeder was born on 1 April 1837, in Lauderdale, Alabama, United States, his father, Thomas A Reeder, was 31 and his mother, Eliza Jane Fowler, was 21. He married Louisa Clementine Wylie on 29 November 1860, in Hempstead, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Ozan Township, Hempstead, Arkansas, United States in 1860 and Saline, Howard, Arkansas, United States in 1880. He died on 28 March 1899, in Mineral Springs, Franklin, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Mineral Springs, Howard, Arkansas, United States.