Person:Anna Rose (7)

Taken from A Record History Biography Memory, Pioneer Times & People, Guthrie Center, Iowa by Elbert Wright Weeks 1932.

ANNA ROSE REED ^S2

Anna Rose was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, December 15, 1813, and was married to Samuel Reed in said county April 5, 1832. Moved to Guthrie Center in October, 1856. The family was six weeks on the way. The Reeds built and opened for service the first hotel or tavern in Guthrie Center. It stood at the northeast corner of State and Fifth streets where the Standard Oil station is now located. The hotel stable faced on State street where the Rorick Brick Block and city hall now stand.

In those days a stable or barn was necessary to house the teams of the travelers.

This hostelry was called the Ohio Hotel. Mrs. Hannah McLuen now living in the northeast part of town cooked and served the first hotel breakfast in Guthrie Center. The fear that the meal would not be ready on time and suit the guests kept her awake nearly all of the night before. Mrs. Reed's sweet, motherly character and excellent cooking endeared her to the travelling public and the Ohio Hotel did a good business and had an attractive and extensive reputation. Buckwheat cakes, hot biscuits, honey and home made sausage and roast beef were the outstanding features of its menus.

Mrs. Reed was the mother of eleven children, who came and settled in and about Guthrie Center, becoming farmers, soldiers, housewives and one, a preacher. She and her husband left the hotel and improved a fine homestead out on Brushy in Victory township, now the beautiful home of L. H. Ervin.

November 20. 1890, Grandma Reed, much loved. and greatly respected, folded her hands and gave place in the ranks of the living to others, leaving rich and de­lightful memories with all those whose privilege it was to have known her.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Iowa, United States. WPA Graves Registration Survey.

   REED Anna 15 Dec 1813 30 Nov 1890 Valley Guthrie Guthrie wife of Samuel; lot 211

2.   Anna Rose Reed, in Weeks, Elbert Wright. A record, history, biography, memory, pioneer times and peoples, Guthrie Center, Iowa. (Guthrie Center, Iowa: The Guthrian Press, 1932).