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Facts and Events
| Name |
John Reade |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[10][1][11] |
6 Jul 1812 |
West Unity, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States |
| Other[12][21] |
15 Nov 1839 |
Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United StatesWestmoreland Intelligencer Newspaper Article |
| Census[13][5][22][17] |
1840 |
Derry, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Residence[6] |
From 1849 to 1850 |
Alamo, Kalamazoo Co., MI |
| Census[7][11][18] |
23 Jul 1850 |
Alamo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States |
| Residence[8][19] |
1860 |
Cheshire, Allegan Co., MI |
| Marriage |
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to Kathryn Kettering |
| Marriage |
25 Nov 1872 |
Bloomingdale, Van Buren, Michigan, United Statesto Minerva Brown |
| Marriage |
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to Amelia Houseman |
| Census[9][14][20][23] |
3 Jun 1880 |
Sand Lake, Kent, Michigan, United States |
| Occupation? |
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minister after coming to Michigan in 1848. |
| Death[2][1][3] |
12 Apr 1883 |
Clyde, Allegan, Michigan, United States |
| Alt Death[2][1][3] |
12 Apr 1883 |
Clyde, Allegan, Michigan, United States |
| Other[4][15] |
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from Notes on the Benjamin Curtis tree, by Maurice L. Reed Family Notes |
| Other[16] |
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from The History of the Reed family, by Maurice L. Reed Family Notes |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 John Reed death certificate.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 History of the Reed Family - Maurice L. Reed, 1923.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Michigan Online Death Indexes, 1867-1897.
- ↑ Notes on the Benjamin Curtis Tree - by Maurice L. Reed, 1943.
- ↑ United States. 1840 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M704).
- ↑ History of Kalamazoo Co., MI.
- ↑ United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432).
- ↑ History of Allegan and Barry Counties.
- ↑ United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T9).
- ↑ Marriage Record for John Reed & Minerva Brown Ames.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432)
M432, roll 353, Alamo, p. 50, dwelling 718, family 732, John Reed.
- ↑ \i Westmoreland Intelligencer\i0
"To Those Indebted," 15 Nov 1839., 13 Jun 2008.
- ↑ United States. 1840 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M704)
M704, roll 498, Derry, p. 318, line 10, John Reed.
- ↑ United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T9)
T9, roll 587, Sand Lake, enumeration district (ED) 111, p. 417A (stamped), dwelling 95, family 95.
- ↑ This seems as good a place as any for a paragraph about John Read - Reed, J.L.'s father, my great-grandfather, who changed the spelling of our name, the old pup. He was an Adventist minister, and had it all figured out when the world was coming to an end, with a big chart, pictures and Biblical quotations which proved the point quite irrefutably. He preached and warned people for years, and was all ready in prayer meetings when the great Day came. The hours came and went and if somebody had stolen up and blown a blast on a trumpet, I'll bet they'd all have fallen dead, all but the minister, and I feel quite sure he knew just what he was doing. When nothing happened he announced "The Lord must have changed his mind" and they all went home. He kept an account book "John Reads Booke and Propperty, Derry Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania State of September 20, 1839 John Read" This book is now in my possession, over a century old, contains inside the date 1838, even earlier than the one on the fly leaf. 50¢ per day was the wage he got most of the time. I discovered the correct spelling for the name Catherine Kettering from it, and that her father's name was Lawrence Kittering, a Pennsylvania Dutchman but born and raised in Lower Germany, according to a note by J.L.
After Catherine died he married a Mrs. Hounsom by whom he had a son Edgar, "Ed" Reed, another childhood playmate of Dad's of whom more later. Grandma Hounsom saved my life. I had bloody diarrhea at the age of 14 months and Dr. Cranmer of Fennville, unable to stop it, had asked for another doctor for a consultation. The result was simply that neither one of them knew what to do, and so they agreed nothing more could be done. Grandmother H said to go to the woods, get some winterbrake root and make a tea with it. Dad fired the doctors, got the WB root and administered same according to directions. In three days the patient was better and he recovered in six. The doctor saw the child at church, was dumbfounded, said, "Is that boy well? Hell, I thought he'd be dead before this." John Reed married another widow named Haviland - no children. A daughter of "Ed" Reed came to call on the folks in Beulah two or three years ago. Dad went to the door, and when she saw him she began to cry. She was a total stranger and Dad was startled, until she explained who she was, and that she couldn't help crying when she saw him, he looked so much like her deceased father. Which may be a good hint about what John Read looked like.
- ↑ History of the Reed Family,
Written by Maurice L. Reed, in 1923
The first known ancestor on the Reed side of the family was Adam Reade, who lived in New Hampshire and ran a sawmill. Not much is known of him outside this simple fact, which is not altogether surprising, as later events will show. John Reade, his son, was born in New Hampshire in 1812 and ran away from home while still only a young boy. His father was probably not the gentle kind, and the particular event which led to his taking leave was as follows:
The sawmill was of a very primitive type, the saw being much like the cross-cut saw used by lumbermen today for felling trees and sawing them into logs and wood. This saw, however, was arranged so as to stand in a vertical position and to move up and down in a jerky way about thirty or forty times a minute. Of course it took ever so long to saw off a board, and when the saw reached the end of the log it had to be stopped before it sawed its way clear through, or it would strike against a steel dog used to hold the log in position, and would break the points of the teeth. To gain time, the mill was being run nights, as the water power was always there anyhow, and with such a slow process it was impossible to supply the demand for sawed lumber. Adam Reade had lost a good deal of sleep working nights in this way, and one day started the saw through a log and told his son John to watch it and stop it at the end of the log. Adam then lay down to sleep, and John, boy fashion, let the saw run out of the end of the cut. Adam woke with a start to hear the saw teeth rip against the steel dog. He turned off the power, seized a stick, and gave his son a very thorough once over in the good old fashioned way.
That night John disappeared, and never throughout his life, so far as is known, ever wrote or heard from his parents again. He found work on the canal boats on the Erie canal, but this, of course, gave him work only during the summers, so to fill out the time he apprenticed himself to a tailor for the winters and learned to make suits of clothes, and also to make shoes from leather. Shoes at that time were nailed with wooden pegs, and the shoes, or rather boots, were made by local shoemakers, not by big factories. They did not lace up, but were made in the "Congress" style and every home had its bootjack for the men to take off their shoes with. A bootjack was simply a piece of board about six inches wide with a V-shaped notch in one end and a cleat to keep the board from splitting. The user put his heel in the V and pushed with the other foot until the shoe came off. I can remember seeing one or two of these old bootjacks lying around when I was a very little boy, but they were little used at that time.
John Reade later worked as a farm hand, and as stone mason, in fact, any work that he could get. In spite of having left home so early in life, and of the surroundings in which he must have been placed during his experience as boatman on the canal, he was very religious, and after he came to Michigan in 1848 he became a preacher.
He preached from this time until his death, some 35 years. He lived in Alamo township, Kalamazoo County, Mich., and after his first wife died moved to Allegan County. His home there was four and one-half miles from Allegan in Cheshire township. Preaching was not a lucrative profession in those days, and part of the time he worked as carpenter or at one of his other trades in order to make a living. One of the houses he built while working as a carpenter was for Luther Merchant, Silas Merchant's father. This house was between Allegan and his own home.
John Reade spelled his name as shown, Reade, until after he came to Michigan, and no reason is now known for his making the change. He liked the other way better and so changed to the form now used by all known members of the family, Reed.
During his latter years he lived at Sand Lake Michigan, and was very destitute. He had practically nothing of his own except his Bible, with marginal references and notes written in his own hand on nearly every page. (This Bible is now in the possession of Mrs. Carry Dusenberry, Pentwater, R.F.D. Mich,. who is half-sister to J.L. Reed, John Reed's son and my grandfather.) An attack of bronchitis at his time developed into tuberculosis, of which he died at the home of his son, J.L. Reed, in Fennville, Mich., in 1882 at the age of 70 years and 10 months, a poor old worn out discouraged man, who gave his best years to the service of the Master, and died full of years and honor, and firm in the faith.
Kathryn Kettenring was born in Germany in March 1816. She came to the United States when quite young, and settled in Pennsylvania with her family. She had three brothers, and two sisters, Jakob, Michael, Andrew, Elizabeth and Margaret. The brothers worked in the coal mines, and John Reade, working on the canal boats came into the country and boarded for a time at their house. He took a fancy to Kathryn, and she became his wife. I do not know anything further of her history, except that she lived with him until her death in Michigan, probably in Kalamazoo Co.
- ↑ John Reed:
1 male under 5
1 male 20 and under 30
1 female 20 and under 30
- ↑ John Reed; age 38; male; carpenter; value of real estate 180; b. NH
Catherine; age 34; female; b. PA
James L.; age 10; male; b.PA
Laura A.; age 8; female; b. PA
Ezra M.; age 2; male; b. MI
- ↑ JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
1853, Jonas Buck, Caleb C. Ward;
1854, Cyrus W. Lindsley, Eliab Wright;
1855, Russell Humiston;
1856, Solomon Cobb;
1857, Blodgett Torry, P. H. Oliver;
1858, Samuel Strong;
1859, Warren Dowd, Marcus Lane;'
1860, John Reed, William M. Tanner;
- ↑ Reed, John; white; male; age 68; married; b.NH; father b.NH; mother b.NH
----- Minerva; white; female; age 41; wife; married; b.OH; father b.OH; mother b.OH
Eames, George; white; male; age 19; stepson; single; b.MI; father (blank) mother (blank)
- ↑ To Those Indebted
All persons indebted to the firm of Armstrong and Reed, in their store or Hat books, are requested to call and settle their respective accouts immediately, by paying their cash or giving their notes. Those neglecting this notice will find their accounts in the hands of a proper officer for collection, on the first of December next.
New Alexandria, Oct. 19, 1839 A & R
- ↑ John Reed:
1 male under 5 [James Lawrence Reed]
1 male 20 and under 30 [ John Reed]
1 female 20 and under 30 [Katherine Kettering Reed]
- ↑ Reed, John; white; male; age 68; married;
b.NH; father b.NH; mother b.NH
----- Minerva; white; female; age 41; wife; married;
b.OH; father b.OH; mother b.OH
Eames, George; white; male; age 19; stepson; single;
b.MI; father (blank) mother (blank)
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