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Descendants of Moses Reeder ~Four Generations~ by Wes Reeder First Draft July 1999

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Descendants of Moses Reeder

~Four Generations~

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Wes Reeder

First DraftJuly 1999

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Reeder RootsDescendants of Moses Reeder

~Four Generations~

[Updated: September 1, 1999]

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Front Cover: This photo was taken on April 21, 1906 in Pomona, California and shows fromleft to right: Daniel Reeder; Lulu (Sharp) Reeder; Don Daniel Reeder, age 6; Paul Hugh Reeder,age 10; George Clifford Reeder, age 3 months; Arthur John Reeder, age 9; Lawson DeWittReeder, age 4; John C. Reeder; and Mary (Quick) Reeder. The image is very important to mebecause it includes my grandfather (Don), great grandfather (John), and my great, greatgrandfather (Daniel) all together in a single photograph. I received the photograph from Britt Lux,who in turn received it from Gertrude (Wetter) Reeder, widow of Phillip Morton Reeder inSeabeck, Washington. John Reeder probably originally gave the photograph to Phillip'sgrandfather, Morton Reeder. John was Morton's uncle.

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The days that pass through usThe years that do the sameTake their toll andEnviably douse the flame

But what binds us all as FamilyWell beyond the graveIs not what we have or hadBut the historyof our Name

-Anonymous

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Dedicated to Mary Emily REEDER

(1901-1997)

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Table of Contents

Introduction....................................................................................................... 4 Tree: Moses Reeder to the Seven Brothers........................................................ 5 Reeder Roots .................................................................................................... 6 Descendants of Moses Reeder......................................................................... 14 Ancestors of Elizabeth Randall........................................................................ 28 Ancestors of Elizabeth Bateman...................................................................... 30 Ancestors of Lulu Belle Sharp ......................................................................... 33 Appendix A: Obituary of Eamon Reeder ........................................................ 37 Appendix B: Obituary of Daniel Reeder .......................................................... 39 Appendix C: Obituary of Elizabeth (Bateman) Reeder..................................... 43 Appendix D: Obituary of Mary (Quick) Reeder.............................................. 45 Appendix E: Daniel Reeder from Missaukee Family Histories ........................ 48 Appendix F: Washington Reeder Biography................................................... 51 Appendix G: Journal of Martin Reeder ........................................................... 54 Appendix H: Lake City Newpaper 1936.......................................................... 64 Appendix H: John C. Reeder Biography......................................................... 73 Appendix I: Letter to Orilla (Reeder) Ostrander.............................................. 78 Bibliography.................................................................................................... 83 Index of Individuals......................................................................................... 85

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IntroductionIn the spring of 1998, while celebrating my father's 75 th birthday, my brothertold us all a strange tale of Canada and Michigan and of an ancestor born justbefore the Revolutionary War named Moses Reeder. Thus began my search forRoots. So far, it has been an interesting and meaningful journey, sometimessurprising and often frustrating but nevertheless a journey that I intend tocontinue.

This is the first version of this document and is based upon preliminaryresearch conducted between June 1998 and July 1999. Additions andcorrections will undoubtedly be included in future versions. There is a greatdeal more research to be done as well as verifying the accuracy of the currentinformation.

Although much of the research effort over the past year has been spentgathering information for the Descendants of Moses Reeder (page 14), thestory of Reeder Roots is a far more complex and rich history than the scatterednames, dates and facts presented here. It is the story of an enduring pioneerspirit, hard work, a gentle heart and a respect for the land. It is their shouldersthat we now stand upon. I sincerely hope that the information here willencourage others and will be used as an outline for further family research.

The following is a partial list of the people whose extra ordinary help made thisdocument possible.

Hazel Reeder, Montclair, CaliforniaKay Jevons, Los Angeles, CaliforniaF. Britton Lux, Oak Park, MichiganHeather Beed, Newmarket, Ontario, CanadaLinda Tilot, Saginaw, MichiganPam Hambrock, Newmarket, Ontario, CanadaMary DuVall, Lake City, MichiganPeter Hubicki, Charlotte, North CarolinaGreg Reeder, San Francisco, CaliforniaWilliam Reeder Chandler, Boise, Idaho

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Moses Reeder to the Seven Brothers

MosesReeder

CatherineMoreland

ElizabethReeder

WilliamReeder

SusannahReeder

MosesReeder, Jr.

EamonReeder

ElizabethRandall

EleanorReeder

MorelandReeder

CharlesReeder

DanielReeder

ElizabethBateman

HarrietReeder

WashingtonReeder

WilliamReeder

SelinaReeder

AgnesReeder

George E.Reeder

Orilla JaneReeder

John CumleyReeder

Lulu BelleSharp

ElizabethReeder

Paul HughReeder

Arthur JohnReeder

Don DanielReeder

Lawson D.Reeder

George C.Reeder

Lewis T.Reeder

StanleyReeder

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ℜThis preliminary version begins just before the Revolutionary War with MosesReeder . Most sources indicate that Moses was born in Bucks County,Pennsylvania in 1772. Moses had a twin brother named Isaac and a youngerbrother named Job born in 1776. (Information regarding the descendants ofIsaac and Job may be included in future versions.) Like his other familymembers, Moses was a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

There is additional data that strongly suggests Moses and family are directdescendants of John Reeder (born about 1618) who came to America fromEngland in 1630 with the Winthrop Fleet aboard the flagship Arbella. ThisJohn Reeder is the basis for the John Reeder Family Association. ErnestineSiegel, in Tampa, Florida is currently the Director.

In 1636, John Reeder was granted land in Springfield, Massachusetts. Twelvefamilies (including John Reeder's family) founded Springfield in that yearunder the leadership of William Pynchon. The town was originally calledAgawam but was changed in 1640 to Springfield in honor of Pynchon'shometown.

Several important people descend from the John Reeder line, including AndrewReeder, first governor of Kansas and the Wright Brothers, whose grandmotherwas Catherine Reeder.

According to Ernestine Siegel, it was the grandson of John Reeder (JosephReeder, born 1681, Long Island, died 1732 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania),who was the progenitor of the Quaker Reeders. Prior to Joseph, the Reederswere Protestants.

Joseph's son, Charles Biles Reeder, Quaker, born 1713 in West Jersey, died1804 in Pine Grove, Bucks County, Pennsylvania married Eleanor Merrick.Moses Reeder was probably the grandson of Charles and Eleanor. According toErnestine Siegel, the parents of Moses were Joseph Reeder and DorothySutton. However, according to the unpublished book "The Reeder Family inAmerica" by Consuelo & Robert Furman (1948, 1953), the parents of Moseswere Joseph Reeder and Elizabeth Henderson.

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Regardless, we know that Moses brought his children (William, Moses Jr.,Eamon, Moreland, Eleanor, and Elizabeth) to Whitchurch Township, YorkCounty, Ontario, Canada. He probably emmigrated to York County with otherQuaker families from Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Records on file with the Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS) indicate that MosesReeder married Catherine Moreland about 1804. No other records have beenfound so far to confirm this marriage. William, the eldest child of Moses, wasborn in 1799 and therefore, may be a child from a previous marriage. It is notknown whether Catherine went to Canada with Moses; no other reference toher has been found.

From the book "Whitchurch Township" prepared by the Whitchurch HistoryBook Committee:

"Although Quakers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey did not sufferpersecution during or after the American Revolution on account oftheir non-combatant status, lawlessness and oppressive taxationpersuaded many of them to head north across the border in searchof a new life in Upper Canada.

They were shrewd, industrious, sober-minded, and familiar withconditions in the backwoods. Samuel Lundy was one such person.

In 1802 he and Isaac Phillips, from Muncy County, Pennsylvania,applied to Lt.-Gov. Peter Hunter for a grant of twenty parcels ofland of 200 acres each on the third, fourth, and fifth concessions ofWhitchurch, promising at the time to secure the necessary settlers toclear the land. A clause in the grant stated that 10 acres were to becleared (to farm) and fenced; a log or frame structure of 16 by 20feet with a shingle roof had to be constructed; all timber in front ofand the whole width of the lot had to be cleared, with 35 feet to becleared and left for half the public road. This formidable task wasto be accomplished within two years.

In the winter of 1802 a small band of settlers arrived fromPennsylvania to take possession of their new homesteads. Some ofthe original families in the area were the Lundys, Tooles,Widdifields, Boughstanchs, Clines, Playters, Lloyds, Randalls, andWillsons."

Several of these surnames appear in the Reeder family tree.

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Although the Reeders did settle on the land secured by Samuel Lundy, it doesnot appear that the Reeders went to Canada with Samuel and the originalgroup of Quakers in 1802. LDS records indicate that the last child of Moses(Moreland Reeder) was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1813. Inaddition, the biography of Washington Reeder (Appendix C) from the book"Biographical Record of Northern Michigan" (1895), states "Emon Reeder movedto Canada with his father [Moses] when seven years old." Since Eamon wasborn about 1809, this implies a date of about 1816.

Eamon Reeder married Elizabeth Randall. Elizabeth was the daughter of AsaRandall and Mary Collins (information regarding the ancestors of ElizabethRandall is included on page 21). Records in the Quaker Archives of PickeringCollege (Newmarket, Ontario, Canada) indicate that the Randalls were Quakerswho transferred from the Muncy Monthly Meeting in Pennsylvania on March14, 1816. Perhaps the Reeders traveled from Pennsylvania with the Randallfamily in the spring of 1816.

We do know that the Reeders are in Whitchurch Township by the year 1826.From page 17 of the book "Whitchurch Township":

"As Whitchurch grew, so too did local government. In 1825 WilliamBarber was appointed town clerk, and by the following yearmunicipal organization included two wardens, an assessor, and atax collector. These officials were Joseph Hewitt, town clerk;William Reader and J. Hewitt, assessors; Samuel Ball, collector;and Eli Gorham and John Bogard, Jr., town wardens."

William Reader is also listed as a private, age 29 in the 1st. Company, 2ndRegiment of the North York Militia (boundary of which was WhitchurchTownship). The list was dated October 1828 and is included in the bookentitled "Men of Upper Canada: Militia Nominal Rolls, 1828-1829". Moses Sr.is shown on a supplementary list for the 2nd Regiment, dated June 1828 thatincludes men from 16 to 50 and in some cases, 60 years old. Although the factReeders were listed in the Militia and were at the same time Quakers, may bean apparent contradiction, the supplementary list does include some Quakersand others of generally exempt status.

Moses Sr., Moses Jr., William and Eamon took the oath of allegiance (werenaturalized as Canadian citizens) in 1831 (Upper Canada NaturalizationRecords 1828-1850, compiled by Donald A. McKenzie).

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William and Eamon Reeder are listed on Walton's 1837 Home Directory ofWhitchurch Township as living on Lot 25 of Concession 5 (100 acres each).

The book entitled "The Benjamin Lundy Family" by William Armstrong (1902)indicates that William Reeder married Sarah Lundy. In addition, it indicatesthat Sarah Lundy was the granddaughter of the above mentioned SamuelLundy as follows:

Children of Samuel Lundy and Sarah Webster:

Ebenezer LundyJohn Lundy m. Elizabeth TooleRichard LundySamuel II Lundy

Children of John Lundy and Elizabeth Toole:

John Lundy m. Hannah PenroseSarah Lundy m. William ReaderAgnes Lundy m. John WillsonElizabeth Lundy m. Henry MinthornLavina Lundy m. Joseph Minthorn

It also indicates that John Lundy and Elizabeth Toole (parents of Sarah Lundy)lived on Lot 26 of Concession 5 in Whitchurch Township. Lot 26 wasimmediately adjacent to Lot 25 listed for the Reeders in 1837.

The principal Quaker settlement in Whitchurch Township centered on theYonge Street Meeting House. The Meeting House was established in 1810 andis the oldest Quaker Meeting House still in use in Canada. The Quakersettlement on Yonge Street eventually became known as the town ofNewmarket.

Eamon Reeder married Elizabeth Randall about 1829 or 1830 probably inNewmarket. Eamon and Elizabeth had six children including Charles, Danieland Washington. Charles and Daniel were born in Newmarket (1831 and1833).

The reasons why most of the Reeders left Whitchurch Township are not yetclear. There was a division of the Quakers about 1828 (Hicksite Separation).In addition, there was the Rebellion of 1837-1838 in Upper Canada that may

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have played an important role. The Rebellion had its roots in Newmarket.

Moses and Eamon are shown as living in Durham County in 1841 (UpperCanada Naturalization Records 1828-1850). However, Victoria County landrecords indicate that the Canada Company sold Moses Jr. the north ½ of Lot20, Concession 8 in Mariposa Township in August 1838. In addition, Eamonpurchased 100 acres of the north ½ of Lot 16, Concession 6 in April 1839.These properties were located in the settlement known as Oakwood in MariposaTownship, Victoria County. Oakwood still exists today as a small roadsidefarming community.

A new Quaker Preparative Meeting was established in Mariposa by 1845 as aresult of the influx of Quaker families into the area between 1837 and 1844. AQuarterly Meeting was established by 1849 (History of the Township ofMariposa by Ross Irwin).

Daniel Reeder married Elizabeth Bateman in 1855 (information regarding theancestors of Elizabeth Bateman is included on page 22). Daniel and Elizabethhad five children (Agnes, George, Orilla, John and Elizabeth).

The 1861 Ontario census lists Moses Sr. and the families of Eamon and Danielin Mariposa. Unlike his father and grandfather, Daniel Reeder was apparentlynot a Quaker but was an Episcopal Methodist and is listed as such on the1861 census.

Moses Sr. died in Oakwood in 1864, reportedly while living with his sonEamon. I still have not determined where Moses is buried. Moses Jr. died in1882. He and his first wife, Elizabeth, are buried in the East OakwoodCemetery.

In the fall of 1867, not long after the death of his first wife (Elizabeth Bateman)and the death of his youngest child (Elizabeth Reeder), Daniel Reeder leftCanada. By the spring of 1868, Daniel established a homestead along theshore of Missaukee Lake in what is now Lake City, Michigan (see Appendix B).In the fall of 1868, Daniel returned to Canada and brought his children andhis brother, Washington, to Lake City. Within a few years, Daniel's parents(Eamon and Elizabeth), his brother Charles and other relatives joined Daniel inLake City.

The settlement of Lake City was originally called "Reeder". In 1873, Reederbecame the county seat of Missaukee County. The town was renamed in 1877to Lake City. Lake City was incorporated into a village in 1889 and later as a

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city in 1932. Lake City is still located within Reeder Township and continuesto be the county seat of Missaukee County. Daniel Reeder is credited as thefounder of Lake City.

Daniel Reeder married Mary Amelia Quick in 1872. Daniel and Mary had twochildren, Martin Daniel and Mary Louise. The Journal of Martin Reeder(included in this book as Appendix D) documents the early days of Lake City.Martin's daughter, Mary Emily Reeder, compiled the Journal after her father'sdeath in 1953.

Daniel Reeder died in 1912 and is buried in Lake City along with other Reederfamily members including his parents (see Eamon's obituary, Appendix A).Daniel's picture currently hangs in the Lake City Methodist Church. Heapparently donated the land that the church is built upon.

Daniel's son, John Comely Reeder, was born in 1862 in Victoria County,Canada. John came to Michigan in 1868 as a young boy with his father (seeAppendix E). In 1873, John was one of only three pupils enrolled in LakeCity's first school. The teacher was Rev. John J. Quick, Daniel Reeder's father-in-law (Missaukee County Family Histories, 1983).

John left home when he was a teenager (prior to 1880). In about 1888, he mayhave gone to Washington State in a lumbering venture with Paul Lux of LakeCity (still being researched). He came to southern California about 1891.

On March 26, 1894 John purchased 55 acres of land near Foster in San DiegoCounty for the sum of fifteen dollars (San Diego County Grant Deed, Book 230,Page 8). On April 18, 1894 John married Lulu Belle Sharp in Pomona(information regarding the ancestors of Lulu Sharp is included on page 24).John and Lulu had seven sons (The Seven Brothers). The first three (Paul,Arthur and Don) were born in San Diego County, probably at the ranch inFoster.

Things apparently did not work out well for John in San Diego County and onOctober 10, 1900 he purchased 10 acres of land along Holt Boulevard in thePomona/Ontario area for four hundred fifty dollars (San Bernardino CountyGrant Deed, Book 294, Page 296). This area was originally known as MonteVista and was part of the "San Antonio Tract" but now is incorporated as theCity of Montclair. Family tradition holds that John moved the entire housefrom Chino to Holt Boulevard using logs and horses. He also built a barn onthe property. As part of the original deed, John received 50 shares of stock inthe Del Monte Irrigation Company. John became a successful citrus farmer.

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The remaining four sons of John and Lulu (Lawson, George , Lewis andStanley ) were born at the Reeder home. Lulu died in 1931, John died twoyears later in 1933. The Reeder home, located at 4405 Holt Boulevard, stillexits as an "island" of history that is occupied and lovingly cared for by Hazel(Harrison) Reeder (George Reeder's widow). George and Hazel were married inthe Reeder home in 1938.

Daniel's younger brother, Washington Reeder, is reported to have died inPomona in 1908. He was probably visiting his nephew John at the Reederhome on Holt Boulevard when he became ill and died. Washington's body wastaken back to Lake City where he was buried. These two branches of the family(Washington's branch and John's branch) apparently had no further contactuntil just recently when I met with Kay (Frazier) Jevons (Washington Reeder'sgranddaughter) this past May in Temecula.

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Several of the familiar names within the family are probably after relatives. Thename of George is likely after John's brother, George Emon Reeder who inturn was probably named after his grandfather, George Bateman. LawsonReeder was likely named after his grandfather, Lawson Sharp. John's unusualmiddle name of Comely may have come from his grandmother's brother,Comely Randall.

There are two presidential connections and although not direct, are worthnoting. Daniel Reeder married Elizabeth Bateman. Elizabeth's mother wasJane Penrose. Jane's great great grandfather was Mordecai Lincoln. MordecaiLincoln was also the great great grandfather of Abraham Lincoln, our 16thPresident.

The son of Moses Sr., William Reeder, had a daughter named Eleanor. EleanorReeder married James Minthorn. James' brother, Theodore Minthorn, isHerbert Hoover's grandfather. Herbert's parents were Hulda Randall Minthornand Jesse Clark Hoover.

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Descendants of Moses Reeder

Generation No. 1

1. MOSES1 REEDER (JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born August 10,1772 in Lycoming Creek, Northumberland Co., Pennsylvania, and died May 5, 1864 inOakwood, Mariposa Toownship, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. He married CATHERINEMORELAND Abt. 1796 in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She was born Abt. 1775 inPennsylvania, and died in Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario, Canada.

Children of MOSES REEDER and CATHERINE MORELAND are:i. ELIZABETH2 REEDER.

2. ii. WILLIAM REEDER, b. May 10, 1799; d. May 7, 1839, Whitchurch Township, York County,Ontario, Canada.

iii. SUSANNAH REEDER, b. January 12, 1802.3. iv. MOSES REEDER, JR., b. November 27, 1805, Farmington, Ontario, New York; d. October 9,

1882, Oakwood, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada.4. v. EAMON REEDER, b. March 31, 1809, Canandaigua, Ontario, New York; d. October 6, 1885,

Lake City, Michigan.vi. ELEANOR REEDER, b. 1810, New York.

5. vii. MORELAND REEDER, b. August 1, 1813, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; d. December 19, 1898,McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.

Generation No. 2

2. WILLIAM2 REEDER (MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was bornMay 10, 1799, and died May 7, 1839 in Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario, Canada.He married SARAH LUNDY, daughter of JOHN LUNDY and ELIZABETH TOOLE. She died Aft.1839.

Children of WILLIAM REEDER and SARAH LUNDY are:6. i. WILLIAM J.A.3 REEDER, b. Abt. 1829; d. March 21, 1921.7. ii. ELEANOR MARGARET REEDER, b. October 10, 1822; d. May 18, 1874, Manilla, Ontario, Canada.8. iii. ELIZABETH REEDER, b. November 5, 1827, Ontario, Canada; d. May 25, 1904, Greenwood

Township, St. Clair County, Michigan.iv. CHARLES Y. REEDER, b. Abt. 1835; d. Aft. 1920.

9. v. SAMUEL T. REEDER, b. August 16, 1839, York County, Ontario, Canada; d. June 18, 1905,Edinboro, Pennsylvania.

3. MOSES2 REEDER, JR. (MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was bornNovember 27, 1805 in Farmington, Ontario, New York, and died October 9, 1882 inOakwood, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. He married (1) ELIZABETHTOOLE June 14, 1829 in Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada, daughter of JOHNTOOLE and ELIN DILLMAN. She was born September 25, 1803, and died February 13, 1869 inOakwood, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. He married (2) HANNAH

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DEGEER Abt. 1871, daughter of JAMES DEGEER and ELIZABETH BROOKS. She was bornAbt. 1825 in Markham Township, York County, Ontario, Canada, and died 1901 in MariposaTownship, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada.

Children of MOSES REEDER and ELIZABETH TOOLE are:i. MOSES3 REEDER.

ii. JOB REEDER, b. Abt. 1831.iii. GEORGE REEDER, b. Abt. 1833; d. Abt. 1885.iv. EMON T. REEDER, b. June 18, 1837; d. Aft. 1900.

10. v. SARAH ANN REEDER, b. August 12, 1841, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario,Canada; d. 1931.

4. EAMON2 REEDER (MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was bornMarch 31, 1809 in Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, and died October 6, 1885 in Lake City,Michigan. He married ELIZABETH RANDALL Abt. 1830 in Canada, daughter of ASARANDALL and MARY COLLINS. She was born February 8, 1805 in Pennsylvania, and diedJune 26, 1886 in Lake City, Michigan.

Children of EAMON REEDER and ELIZABETH RANDALL are:11. i. CHARLES3 REEDER, b. 1831, Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada; d. September 27, 1894.12. ii. DANIEL REEDER, b. June 24, 1833, Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada; d. April 26,

1912, Lake City, Michigan.13. iii. HARRIET REEDER, b. Abt. 1840, Ontario, Canada; d. February 12, 1912, Lake City, Michigan.14. iv. WASHINGTON REEDER, b. July 4, 1841, Ontario, Canada; d. November 3, 1908, Pomona, Los

Angeles County, California.v. WILLIAM REEDER, b. May 8, 1843, Ontario, Canada; d. January 26, 1918; m. DELL

HERRINGTON.15. vi. SELINA REEDER, b. Abt. 1846, Ontario, Canada; d. February 1, 1929, Richmond, Virgina.

5. MORELAND2 REEDER (MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was bornAugust 1, 1813 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and died December 19, 1898 in McGillivrayTownship, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada. He married SARAH TEEL March 16, 1836 inWhitchurch Township, York County, Ontario, Canada, daughter of FRANCIS TEEL andELIZABETH BAKER. She was born 1816 in Windsor, Maryland, and died April 3, 1885 inMcGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.

Children of MORELAND REEDER and SARAH TEEL are:16. i. JANE ELIZABETH3 REEDER, b. February 11, 1837; d. December 16, 1892.17. ii. SUSANNA REEDER, b. August 12, 1838, Ontario, Canada; d. May 1, 1909, McGillivray

Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.18. iii. JOHN REEDER, b. May 2, 1840, Markham Townshipo, York County, Ontario, Canada; d. March

13, 1918, West McGillivray Township, York County, Ontario, Canada.19. iv. ALEXANDER REEDER, b. July 17, 1841; d. Aft. 1901.

v. MARIA REEDER, b. September 17, 1843; m. JAMES LAMPORT.20. vi. MOSES REEDER, b. February 2, 1845, Ontario, Canada; d. July 26, 1935, McGillivray Township,

Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.

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6. WILLIAM J.A.3 REEDER (WILLIAM2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD,JOHNE) was born Abt. 1829, and died March 21, 1921. He married LAVINA WILLISSeptember 18, 1879 in Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada, daughter of CORNELIUSWILLIS. She was born September 1854 in Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada, anddied April 14, 1935 in Cadillac, Michigan.

Children of WILLIAM REEDER and LAVINA WILLIS are:i. WILLIAM EVERETT4 REEDER, b. June 15, 1881; d. March 11, 1948, Lake City, Michigan.

21. ii. MARION REEDER, b. April 7, 1883; d. January 29, 1972.

7. ELEANOR MARGARET3 REEDER (WILLIAM2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC,ISAACD, JOHNE) was born October 10, 1822, and died May 18, 1874 in Manilla, Ontario,Canada. She married JAMES MINTHORN, son of JOHN MINTHORN and LUCINDY SHERWOOD.He was born September 4, 1820 in Canada, and died August 10, 1872 in Manilla, Ontario,Canada.

Children of ELEANOR REEDER and JAMES MINTHORN are:i. SARAH4 MINTHORN, b. January 15, 1848, Ontario, Canada.

22. ii. NORMAN MINTHORN, b. June 1, 1850, Ontario, Canada; d. Ontario, Canada.23. iii. WILLIAM ALVY MINTHORN, b. September 4, 1852, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; d. January

13, 1951, Lake City, Michigan.iv. ELIZA MINTHORN, b. February 5, 1854, Ontario, Canada; d. Ontario, Canada.v. COSFORD MINTHORN, b. August 20, 1857, Ontario, Canada; d. November 9, 1937, Lake City,

MI.vi. ALONZO MINTHORN, b. August 2, 1859, Ontario, Canada; d. May 6, 1942; m. MAGGIE DULYEA,

1908.vii. MANCHESKI MINTHORN, b. July 25, 1861, Ontario, Canada; d. Williamsburg, Michigan.

viii. JOHN MINTHORN, b. July 4, 1864, Ontario, Canada; d. Idaho.ix. SAMUEL MINTHORN, b. December 16, 1867, Ontario, Canada.x. MARY MINTHORN, b. August 10, 1870, Ontario, Canada; d. San Mateo, California.

8. ELIZABETH3 REEDER (WILLIAM2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD,JOHNE) was born November 5, 1827 in Ontario, Canada, and died May 25, 1904 in GreenwoodTownship, St. Clair County, Michigan. She married NELSON TEETS, son of WILLIAM TEETS.He was born November 16, 1827 in New York, and died October 19, 1906 in GreenwoodCounty, St. Clair County, Michigan.

Children of ELIZABETH REEDER and NELSON TEETS are:i. WILLIAM G.4 TEETS, b. 1849; d. December 20, 1915; m. JANE KNOWLTON.

ii. HENRYETTE TEETS, b. 1852, Ontario, Canada; d. 1895.24. iii. GEORGE NELSON TEETS, b. July 31, 1854, Missouri; d. February 17, 1939, Yale, Michigan.

iv. CHARLES G. TEETS, b. 1856.v. LOUISA TEETS, b. 1860, Ontario, Canada; m. ALBERT KNOLL.

vi. JAMES TEETS, b. 1862; d. February 1, 1939, Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan; m. L ILLIANA DUCATT, January 12, 1898; b. 1872.

vii. MARY ANN TEETS, b. 1864, Fremont, Michigan; m. JAMES RIX, April 30, 1893, St. ClairCounty,Michigan; b. 1850.

25. viii. ELWOOD TEETS, b. 1869; d. October 13, 1941, Greenwood Township, St. Clair County,Michigan.

ix. ALFRED TEETS, b. 1873.

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9. SAMUEL T.3 REEDER (WILLIAM2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE)was born August 16, 1839 in York County, Ontario, Canada, and died June 18, 1905 inEdinboro, Pennsylvania. He married MARY L. GREEN, daughter of DEACON ALFRED GREEN.She was born Abt. 1843 in Pennsylvania, and died Aft. 1900.

Children of SAMUEL REEDER and MARY GREEN are:i. PRENTICE A.4 REEDER, b. Abt. 1874.

ii. SALLY LOUISE REEDER, b. Abt. 1879.iii. TEXIE E. REEDER, b. Abt. 1880, Pennslyvania; d. Aft. 1930.

10. SARAH ANN3 REEDER (MOSES2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD,JOHNE) was born August 12, 1841 in Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada,and died 1931. She married JOHN DOBSON February 17, 1863 in Victoria County, Ontario,Canada, son of WILLIAM DOBSON and DOROTHY UNKNOWN. He was born January 16, 1842in England, and died 1910.

Children of SARAH REEDER and JOHN DOBSON are:i. MARY ANN4 DOBSON, b. Abt. 1865, Ontario, Canada.

ii. WILLIAM DOBSON, b. Abt. 1869, Ontario, Canada.iii. ELLA DOBSON, b. Abt. 1877, Ontario, Canada.iv. FRANCES LILLIE DOBSON, b. January 6, 1880.

11. CHARLES3 REEDER (EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE)was born 1831 in Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada, and died September 27, 1894.He married SARAH ANN PLAYTER July 17, 1855 in Wesleyan Parsonage, Aurora, Canada,daughter of WATSON PLAYTER and MARY WEBSTER. She was born November 30, 1836 inWhitchurch Township, York County, Ontario, Canada, and died April 2, 1918.

Children of CHARLES REEDER and SARAH PLAYTER are:26. i. JOSEPH WITNEY4 REEDER, b. December 6, 1856, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario,

Canada; d. March 25, 1929.ii. FRANK REEDER, b. Abt. 1857, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; m.

ELIZABETH FULLER.iii. JOHN WATSON REEDER, b. December 8, 1858, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario,

Canada.iv. CHARLES FRANKLIN REEDER, b. November 15, 1861, Mariposa Township, Victoria County,

Ontario, Canada.v. ELIZABETH ANN REEDER, b. 1865, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada.

27. vi. WILLIAM LINCOLN REEDER, b. August 26, 1866, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario,Canada; d. July 4, 1934, Durban, South Africa.

vii. WASHINGTON LESLIE REEDER, b. May 29, 1869, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario,Canada; d. 1901, Lake City, Michigan.

viii. EMON EVERETT REEDER, b. August 20, 1870, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario,Canada; d. March 16, 1875, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada.

ix. MARSHALL EDGAR REEDER, b. December 1, 1871, Mariposa Township, Victoria County,Ontario, Canada; d. 1908.

28. x. FRED HOWARD REEDER, b. September 2, 1876, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario,Canada; d. May 31, 1945.

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29. xi. CHARLOTTE ESTELLA REEDER, b. February 12, 1878, Mariposa Township, Victoria County,Ontario, Canada; d. November 18, 1946, Beuton Harbor, Michigan.

xii. ROY WEBSTER REEDER, b. September 14, 1880; m. ETHEL EVANS.

12. DANIEL3 REEDER (EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE)was born June 24, 1833 in Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada, and died April 26,1912 in Lake City, Michigan. He married (1) ELIZABETH BATEMAN February 15, 1855,daughter of GEORGE BATEMAN and JANE PENROSE. She was born April 14, 1837 in Canada,and died April 1, 1865 in Oakwood, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. He married (2) MARYAMELIA QUICK February 29, 1872 in Traverse City, Grand Traverse, Michigan, daughter ofJOHN QUICK and DEBORAH TUNISON. She was born May 29, 1850 in New Jersey, and diedMarch 25, 1914 in Boyne City, Michigan.

Children of DANIEL REEDER and ELIZABETH BATEMAN are:30. i. AGNES4 REEDER, b. December 2, 1855, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; d. August 24, 1941,

Kalkaska County, Michigan.31. ii. GEORGE EMON REEDER, b. July 7, 1858, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; d. January 28, 1902,

Duluth, Minnesota.32. iii. ORILLA JANE REEDER, b. February 14, 1860, Ontario, Canada; d. February 14, 1942, Lake City,

Missaukee County, Michigan.33. iv. JOHN CUMLEY REEDER, b. September 18, 1862, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; d. June 28,

1933, Montclair, San Bernardino County, California.v. ELIZABETH REEDER, b. March 23, 1865; d. June 20, 1878.

Children of DANIEL REEDER and MARY QUICK are:34. vi. MARTIN DANIEL4 REEDER, b. June 23, 1874, Lake City, Missaukee County, Michigan; d.

January 26, 1953, Lake City, Missaukee County, Michigan.vii. MARY LOUISA REEDER, b. February 24, 1877, Lake City, Michigan; d. October 7, 1965, Clark

Memorial Home, Grand Rapids, Michigan; m. (1) WILLIAM HOWARD WHITE, October 1899,Boyne, Michigan; b. April 12, 1859, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada; d. August 14, 1933, BoyneCity, Michigan; m. (2) HUGH KENNEDY, Abt. 1935; b. Abt. 1873; d. July 12, 1948.

13. HARRIET3 REEDER (EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE)was born Abt. 1840 in Ontario, Canada, and died February 12, 1912 in Lake City, Michigan.She married JOHN J. POLLARD Abt. 1863. He was born Abt. 1838 in York County, Ontario,Canada, and died Aft. 1880 in Lake City, Michigan.

Children of HARRIET REEDER and JOHN POLLARD are:35. i. WILLIAM S.4 POLLARD, b. 1864; d. April 6, 1951, Lake City, Michigan.

ii. LILLIAN POLLARD, b. 1866; d. January 27, 1892; m. B. LOUKS.

14. WASHINGTON3 REEDER (EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD,JOHNE) was born July 4, 1841 in Ontario, Canada, and died November 3, 1908 in Pomona, LosAngeles County, California. He married (1) WIHELMINA LOUCKS December 24, 1873 inTraverse City, Grand Traverse, Michigan, daughter of GEORGE LOUCKS and TIGRISMCFARLAND. She was born 1853, and died September 6, 1886. He married (2) EMMA J.WHITNEY January 4, 1888 in Lake City, Michigan. She was born 1852, and died March 21,

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1889. He married (3) SABRA ANNA BARRY November 25, 1890 in Lake City, Michigan,daughter of DAVID BARRY and CLARA GARBUTT. She was born 1867 in Bath, Canada, anddied 1901 in Watertown, New York.

Children of WASHINGTON REEDER and WIHELMINA LOUCKS are:i. GARFIELD4 REEDER, b. June 1872; d. October 19, 1881, Lake City, Michigan.

ii. CHARLES JASPER REEDER, b. October 5, 1875, Lake City, Michigan; d. November 8, 1875, LakeCity, Michigan.

36. iii. CLARIBELL EVALYN REEDER, b. July 7, 1876, Lake City, Michigan; d. August 19, 1957, LakeCity, Michigan.

iv. ALMIRA REEDER, b. August 12, 1878; d. August 15, 1878, Lake City, Michigan.

Children of WASHINGTON REEDER and SABRA BARRY are:37. v. LILLIAN MAY4 REEDER, b. April 8, 1893, Michigan; d. November 16, 1971, Inglewood, Los

Angeles County, California.38. vi. WASHINGTON RANDALL GARBUTT REEDER, b. October 22, 1891, Lake City Michigan; d.

November 27, 1964, Owosso, Michigan.

15. SELINA3 REEDER (EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE)was born Abt. 1846 in Ontario, Canada, and died February 1, 1929 in Richmond, Virgina. Shemarried CHARLES T. REEDER Bef. 1875 in Pennsylvania, son of JOB REEDER and JANESCOTT. He was born Abt. 1840 in Erie, Pennsylvania, and died Aft. 1920 in Erie,Pennsylvania.

Children of SELINA REEDER and CHARLES REEDER are:39. i. ALICE4 REEDER, b. Abt. 1868, Canada.

ii. EDWIN G. REEDER, b. Abt. 1870, Pennsylvania.iii. GUY HAMILTON REEDER, b. Abt. 1872, Pennsylvania; d. January 6, 1948.

16. JANE ELIZABETH3 REEDER (MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC,ISAACD, JOHNE) was born February 11, 1837, and died December 16, 1892. She marriedMOSES MAWSON February 5, 1855 in McGillivray Township, Ontario, son of JOHN MAWSONand ELIZABETH BARKER. He was born September 1833 in England, and died January 6, 1929.

Children of JANE REEDER and MOSES MAWSON are:i. SARAH4 MAWSON, b. November 3, 1855.

ii. ELIZABETH MAWSON, b. February 14, 1857; d. December 17, 1889.40. iii. SUSANNAH MAWSON, b. September 26, 1858; d. March 19, 1899.

iv. MARIA MAWSON, b. July 28, 1860.v. JANE MAWSON, b. February 3, 1862; d. April 25, 1924.

41. vi. MOSES MAWSON, b. November 13, 1863, Ontario, Canada; d. November 16, 1948.vii. MARY MAWSON, b. April 20, 1866.

viii. JOHN MORELAND MAWSON, b. September 10, 1869; d. September 20, 1869.ix. MORELAND MAWSON, b. August 7, 1875.x. ELI MAWSON, b. October 17, 1876.

17. SUSANNA3 REEDER (MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD,JOHNE) was born August 12, 1838 in Ontario, Canada, and died May 1, 1909 in McGillivray

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Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada. She married JAMES YOUNG, son of JOHNYOUNG and POLLY COOK. He was born November 26, 1843 in Ontario, Canada, and diedApril 19, 1923 in McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.

Children of SUSANNA REEDER and JAMES YOUNG are:i. JOHN MORELAND4 YOUNG, b. April 19, 1866.

ii. MARY JANE YOUNG, b. June 4, 1868.42. iii. SARAH ANN YOUNG, b. April 30, 1873.

iv. SOPHIA E. YOUNG, b. December 18, 1876, Ontario, Canada.43. v. JAMES E. WILBERT YOUNG, b. April 11, 1881.

18. JOHN3 REEDER (MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE)was born May 2, 1840 in Markham Townshipo, York County, Ontario, Canada, and diedMarch 13, 1918 in West McGillivray Township, York County, Ontario, Canada. He marriedSARAH JOHNSTON May 1871, daughter of ISAAC JOHNSTON and JANE MAWSON. She wasborn March 24, 1852 in Loweswater, Cumberland, England, and died April 15, 1914 in WestMcGillivray Township, York County, Ontario, Canada.

Children of JOHN REEDER and SARAH JOHNSTON are:44. i. MOSES4 REEDER, b. March 23, 1872, McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario,

Canada; d. September 4, 1911, West McGillivray Township, York County, Ontario, Canada.45. ii. FRANCIS REEDER, b. June 22, 1874, Ontario, Canada; d. September 19, 1940.

iii. JEANETTA REEDER, b. 1876; d. October 14, 1913; m. JOSEPH W. LAWSON; b. 1869; d. 1949.

19. ALEXANDER3 REEDER (MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD,JOHNE) was born July 17, 1841, and died Aft. 1901. He married MARGARET NICHOLSJanuary 2, 1866 in McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada, daughter ofWILLIAM NICHOLS. She was born March 26, 1841.

Children of ALEXANDER REEDER and MARGARET NICHOLS are:i. WILLIAM4 REEDER, b. Abt. 1867.

ii. JOHN REEDER, b. Abt. 1868.iii. SUSANNA REEDER, b. Abt. 1870.iv. SALINA REEDER, b. Abt. 1878.v. ALEXANDER REEDER, b. February 14, 1883; m. GERTRUDE LUTHER, November 28, 1904,

McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada; b. January 3, 1882.vi. WILLIAM REEDER, b. July 15, 1885.

vii. VERA E. REEDER, b. April 28, 1892.

20. MOSES3 REEDER (MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE)was born February 2, 1845 in Ontario, Canada, and died July 26, 1935 in McGillivrayTownship, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada. He married ELIZABETH TURNER January 10,1872 in Ailsa Craig, McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada. She wasborn May 26, 1854, and died February 2, 1907 in McGillivray Township, Middlesex County,Ontario, Canada.

Children of MOSES REEDER and ELIZABETH TURNER are:i. JOHN WESLEY4 REEDER, b. December 2, 1873.

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ii. CHARLES REEDER, b. January 5, 1875.46. iii. SARAH MARIA EMMA REEDER, b. January 23, 1876, London, Ontario, Canada; d. January 31,

1960, Wayne, Michigan.iv. JAPHETH REEDER, b. Abt. 1877; d. March 17, 1894, McGillivray Township, Middlesex County,

Ontario, Canada.v. JOSEPH REEDER, b. October 19, 1878, McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario,

Canada.vi. JAMES REEDER, b. April 1, 1881.

vii. FREDERICK T. REEDER, b. September 21, 1886.

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21. MARION4 REEDER (WILLIAM J.A.3, WILLIAM2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC,ISAACD, JOHNE) was born April 7, 1883, and died January 29, 1972. She married GLENN R.RATHBURN. He died 1949.

Children of MARION REEDER and GLENN RATHBURN are:i. MAXINE5 RATHBURN.

ii. ELEANOR RATHBURN.iii. GLENNIA RATHBURN, m. UNKNOWN FARRINGTON.

22. NORMAN4 MINTHORN (ELEANOR MARGARET3 REEDER, WILLIAM2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA,CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born June 1, 1850 in Ontario, Canada, and died inOntario, Canada. He married PRISCILLA NANCY PLAYTER, daughter of WATSON PLAYTERand HARRIET MOSHIER. She was born December 1854, and died August 24, 1886 in Ontario,Canada.

Children of NORMAN MINTHORN and PRISCILLA PLAYTER are:i. SAMUEL5 MINTHORN, b. Abt. 1868.

ii. HARRIET MINTHORN, b. Abt. 1879.iii. JAS HOWARD MINTHORN, b. August 1886, Ontario, Canada; d. August 1886, Ontario, Canada.

23. WILLIAM ALVY4 MINTHORN (ELEANOR MARGARET3 REEDER, WILLIAM2, MOSES1,JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born September 4, 1852 in VictoriaCounty, Ontario, Canada, and died January 13, 1951 in Lake City, Michigan. He marriedMARY ANN STONEHOUSE January 5, 1886. She was born April 16, 1868, and died May 5,1935 in Lake City, Michigan.

Children of WILLIAM MINTHORN and MARY STONEHOUSE are:i. DELLA MAE5 MINTHORN, b. January 28, 1887; d. October 9, 1988; m. JOSEPH HENRY ROWE,

June 2, 1913.ii. ELMER JAMES MINTHORN, b. June 19, 1888, Lake City, Michigan; d. June 6, 1951, Lake City,

Michigan; m. DORTHEA ANTONIO PEDERSEN, August 15, 1915; b. May 13, 1892, Big Rapids,Michigan; d. April 2, 1976, Cadillac, Michigan.

iii. HAZEL GERTRUDE MINTHORN, b. July 4, 1890; d. April 16, 1892.iv. WILLIAM CLAIR MINTHORN, b. December 28, 1895; d. August 25, 1959; m. CATHERINE SMITH.

24. GEORGE NELSON4 TEETS (ELIZABETH3 REEDER, WILLIAM2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA,

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CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born July 31, 1854 in Missouri, and died February17, 1939 in Yale, Michigan. He married SARAH JAINE LETT October 8, 1875 in Sandusky,Sanilanc County, Michigan. She was born May 22, 1857 in Ontario, Canada.

Child of GEORGE TEETS and SARAH LETT is:i. JOSEPH5 TEETS, b. Abt. 1880; d. August 28, 1951.

25. ELWOOD4 TEETS (ELIZABETH3 REEDER, WILLIAM2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB,JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born 1869, and died October 13, 1941 in GreenwoodTownship, St. Clair County, Michigan. He married ANNA MULLANY. She was born 1877,and died May 11, 1947 in Greenwood Township, St. Clair County, Michigan.

Child of ELWOOD TEETS and ANNA MULLANY is:i. DANIEL5 TEETS, b. 1901; d. September 15, 1944, Battle Creek, Michigan.

26. JOSEPH WITNEY4 REEDER (CHARLES3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC,ISAACD, JOHNE) was born December 6, 1856 in Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario,Canada, and died March 25, 1929. He married (1) LAVINA DICKSON 1881. She was born1860, and died January 5, 1893. He married (2) ADDIE DOREMUS Aft. 1893. She was bornAbt. 1871 in Michigan, and died Aft. 1910.

Children of JOSEPH REEDER and LAVINA DICKSON are:i. ALBERTA5 REEDER, b. Bef. 1893.

ii. UNKNOWN REEDER, b. January 5, 1893; d. 1893, Lake City, Missaukee County, Michigan.

27. WILLIAM LINCOLN4 REEDER (CHARLES3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB,JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born August 26, 1866 in Mariposa Township, Victoria County,Ontario, Canada, and died July 4, 1934 in Durban, South Africa. He married MARY HELENCREECH Abt. 1896 in Chicago, Illinois, daughter of THOMAS CREECH and SARAH NELLIS.She was born April 28, 1871 in Vienna, Elgin, Ontario, Canada, and died March 13, 1934 inDurban, South Africa.

Child of WILLIAM REEDER and MARY CREECH is:i. EILEEN ADELAIDE5 REEDER, b. August 10, 1910, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa; d.

February 18, 1983, London, England; m. HAROLD ROBERT HENDY, February 8, 1937,Capetown, Cape, South Africa; b. 1889, London, England.

28. FRED HOWARD4 REEDER (CHARLES3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC,ISAACD, JOHNE) was born September 2, 1876 in Mariposa Township, Victoria County,Ontario, Canada, and died May 31, 1945. He married ELLA REYNOLDS October 2, 1900. Shewas born Abt. 1876 in Michigan, and died March 8, 1962 in Lake City, Michigan.

Child of FRED REEDER and ELLA REYNOLDS is:i. FRED RUSSEL5 REEDER, b. August 12, 1908; d. July 16, 1994, Cadillac, Michigan; m. BLANCHE

I. WARD; b. June 4, 1910; d. August 3, 1990.

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29. CHARLOTTE ESTELLA4 REEDER (CHARLES3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB,JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born February 12, 1878 in Mariposa Township, VictoriaCounty, Ontario, Canada, and died November 18, 1946 in Beuton Harbor, Michigan. Shemarried WILLIAM J. ARDIS, son of WILLIAM ARDIS and MARGARET MELDREW. He was bornMay 16, 1877, and died November 24, 1968 in Lake City, Michigan.

Children of CHARLOTTE REEDER and WILLIAM ARDIS are:i. ELTON BOYD5 ARDIS, b. August 26, 1901; d. October 3, 1901, Lake City, Michigan.

ii. LYSLE R. ARDIS, b. March 26, 1903; d. April 7, 1976, Lake City, Michigan.iii. DORMAN WILLIAM ARDIS, b. 1905; d. July 30, 1964; m. BEATRICE HARKINS.iv. DOROTHY ALBERTA ARDIS, b. August 24, 1907; d. February 1976; m. JAMES BOGGS.v. CHARLES R. ARDIS, b. July 28, 1909, Lake City, Missaukee County, Michigan; d. February 13,

2004, Lake City, Missaukee County, Michigan; m. VIRGINIA HOLLINGSWORTH, August 17,1946, Frankfort, Michigan; b. November 24, 1913; d. August 24, 1994.

vi. WILLIAM REEDER ARDIS, b. December 3, 1913.vii. CHARLOTTE ANN ARDIS, b. April 8, 1918; d. July 31, 1974; m. UNKNOWN BRUCE.

30. AGNES4 REEDER (DANIEL3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD,JOHNE) was born December 2, 1855 in Victoria County, Ontario, Canada, and died August 24,1941 in Kalkaska County, Michigan. She married JOHN D. RANSOM December 25, 1871 inLake City, Michigan. He was born Abt. 1842 in Pennsylvania, and died March 15, 1919.

Children of AGNES REEDER and JOHN RANSOM are:i. IDA MAY5 RANSOM, b. Abt. 1874, Michigan; m. JOSEPH MIDDLETON.

ii. CHARLES ALBERT RANSOM, b. Abt. 1876, Michigan; d. January 10, 1949; m. MARIE WERNER; b.Abt. 1880, Michigan; d. March 11, 1955.

iii. MAE RANSOM, b. Abt. 1883; m. DONALD MCCLOUD.iv. MAUDE ETHEL RANSOM, b. November 15, 1883, Michigan; d. April 17, 1979; m. HERMAN

LUCAS, Abt. 1908, Missaukee county, Michigan; b. October 5, 1883, Michigan; d. 1950.

31. GEORGE EMON4 REEDER (DANIEL3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC,ISAACD, JOHNE) was born July 7, 1858 in Victoria County, Ontario, Canada, and died January28, 1902 in Duluth, Minnesota. He married AUGUSTA WILHELMINA PIRRUNG June 1, 1879 inLake City, Michigan, daughter of UNKNOWN PIRRUNG and WILHELMINA LUX. She was bornDecember 18, 1862 in Kent County, Michigan, and died April 6, 1938 in Seattle, Washington.

Children of GEORGE REEDER and AUGUSTA PIRRUNG are:i. MORTON CHRISTIAN5 REEDER, b. July 11, 1880, Lake City, Reeder Township, Missaukee

County, Michigan; d. March 1966, Seattle, Washington; m. INGA LOUISE LARSON, July 15,1903, Duluth, Minnesota.

ii. HENRIETTA MABEL REEDER, b. July 29, 1882, Lake City, Reeder Township, Missaukee County,Michigan; d. March 26, 1969, Seattle, Washington; m. (1) UNKNOWN GORMLEY; m. (2)WILLIAM BLAINE CHANDLER, August 17, 1910, Butte, Montana; d. Abt. 1915.

32. ORILLA JANE4 REEDER (DANIEL3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC,ISAACD, JOHNE) was born February 14, 1860 in Ontario, Canada, and died February 14, 1942in Lake City, Missaukee County, Michigan. She married CHARLES L. OSTRANDER July 29,

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1875 in Lake City, Michigan, son of C.D. OSTRANDER. He was born February 1848 in OrangeCounty, New York, and died July 9, 1933 in Lake City, Missaukee County, Michigan.

Children of ORILLA REEDER and CHARLES OSTRANDER are:i. VIOLA C.5 OSTRANDER, b. August 1876, Michigan; d. August 9, 1933; m. DAVID TUCKER; b.

Abt. 1876, Canada.ii. BERT M. OSTRANDER, b. June 29, 1878, Michigan; d. December 12, 1955, Lake City, Missaukee

County, Michigan; m. ANNA ZEITZ; b. Abt. 1884, Germany; d. July 21, 1946.

33. JOHN CUMLEY4 REEDER (DANIEL3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC,ISAACD, JOHNE) was born September 18, 1862 in Victoria County, Ontario, Canada, and diedJune 28, 1933 in Montclair, San Bernardino County, California. He married LULU BELLESHARP April 18, 1894 in Pomona, Los Angeles County, California, daughter of LAWSONSHARP and MARY WOOD. She was born September 2, 1872 in Lamar, Barton County,Missouri, and died November 28, 1931 in Montclair, San Bernardino County, California.

Children of JOHN REEDER and LULU SHARP are:i. PAUL HUGH5 REEDER, b. September 1, 1895, Foster, San Diego County, California; d. May 23,

1952, Riverside County, California; m. AGNES MARIE BAKER, September 12, 1920; b. January13, 1897, Iowa; d. December 26, 1966, Los Angeles County, California.

ii. ARTHUR JOHN REEDER, b. November 12, 1896, Foster, San Diego County, California; d. October5, 1969, San Bernardino County, California; m. HELEN VENONA ALTER, November 12, 1922; b.March 22, 1898, Colorado; d. March 19, 1982, San Bernardino County, California.

iii. DON DANIEL REEDER, b. September 18, 1899, Foster, San Diego County, California; d. July 28,1924, Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California; m. MAYBELLE RUTH COOPER, June 25, 1921;b. November 17, 1901, Meriden, Connecticut; d. June 13, 1976, Oxnard, Ventura County,California.

iv. LAWSON DEWITT REEDER, b. August 4, 1901, Montclair, Los Angeles County, California; d.August 21, 1964, Los Angeles County, California; m. (1) MARY MARQUIS BOOKER, October 22,1927; m. (2) LINDA CARROLL HARRINGTON, November 25, 1937; b. August 6, 1906; d. May 31,2004, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California.

v. GEORGE CLIFFORD REEDER, b. December 30, 1905, Montclair, California; d. January 20, 1996,Claremont, California; m. HAZEL MARGARET HARRISON, October 23, 1938, Montclair,California; b. July 4, 1912, Hernandez, San Benito County, California; d. March 19, 2004, LaVerne, Los Angeles County, California.

vi. LEWIS THEODORE REEDER, b. October 4, 1907, Montclair, California; d. October 17, 1967, LosAngeles County, California; m. PAULINE MAE RADER, June 11, 1934; b. March 22, 1913,Arkansas; d. October 17, 1994, Kern County, California.

vii. STANLEY REEDER, b. June 4, 1909, Montclair, California; m. WILMA HELEN BROADWATER, July25, 1931; b. August 8, 1912, Los Angeles County, California; d. November 13, 2002, Lakeport,California.

34. MARTIN DANIEL4 REEDER (DANIEL3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC,ISAACD, JOHNE) was born June 23, 1874 in Lake City, Missaukee County, Michigan, and diedJanuary 26, 1953 in Lake City, Missaukee County, Michigan. He married IDA UPDIKEDecember 27, 1899 in Lake City, Michigan, daughter of WILLIAM UPDIKE and EMILYDEMARANVILLE. She was born August 28, 1873 in Pierson, Michigan, and died February 20,1969 in Tallahassee, Florida.

Children of MARTIN REEDER and IDA UPDIKE are:

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i. MARY EMILY5 REEDER, b. February 3, 1901, Lake City, Michigan; d. October 24, 1997,Tallahassee, Florida.

ii. DAN MARTIN REEDER, b. June 14, 1903; d. March 15, 1999, Redding, Shasta County,California; m. MARGARET LINN, May 27, 1939; b. February 29, 1912, Carroll, Wayne County,Nebraska; d. June 9, 2003, Mercy Medical Center, Redding, Shasta County, California.

iii. IDA LOUISE REEDER, b. July 10, 1905; d. November 9, 1914, Boyne City, Michigan.iv. NANCY ELIZABETH REEDER, b. August 19, 1908, Boyne City, Michigan; d. January 6, 1984, San

Pedro, Los Angeles County, California; m. JOHN REARDON; d. Bef. 1984.v. DOROTHY DEE REEDER, b. 1912; m. (1) FRANK KOLAR; m. (2) RALPH JACOBS.

35. WILLIAM S.4 POLLARD (HARRIET3 REEDER, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB,JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born 1864, and died April 6, 1951 in Lake City, Michigan. Hemarried ALICE SLADE.

Children of WILLIAM POLLARD and ALICE SLADE are:i. FRANK5 POLLARD.

ii. JUNE POLLARD.iii. PERCY POLLARD, b. March 22, 1896.iv. KENNETH RANDALL POLLARD, b. July 2, 1899; d. October 25, 1968.v. ROBERT POLLARD.

vi. MANLEY POLLARD, b. July 9, 1906; d. November 19, 1975.vii. DONALD POLLARD.

36. CLARIBELL EVALYN4 REEDER (WASHINGTON3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB,JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born July 7, 1876 in Lake City, Michigan, and died August 19,1957 in Lake City, Michigan. She married CHARLES PERCY CHICK May 14, 1902. He wasborn Abt. 1880 in Michigan, and died August 20, 1958 in Lake City, Michigan.

Children of CLARIBELL REEDER and CHARLES CHICK are:i. RICHARD ARMAND5 CHICK, b. September 21, 1902; d. August 1978; m. (1) ALICE MARGARET

FLOODQUIST; b. 1902; d. 1935; m. (2) ANN CARLSON.ii. HARRY NESBIT CHICK, b. 1907; d. February 5, 1966, Lake City, Michigan.

iii. RUTH L. CHICK, b. January 13, 1909; d. January 15, 1998; m. RAYMOND PETTENGILL.iv. THOMAS MYRL CHICK, b. September 26, 1916; d. April 4, 1986, Lake City, Michigan; m. MARIE

E. SMITH; b. February 18, 1920; d. April 28, 1978, Lake City, Michigan.

37. LILLIAN MAY4 REEDER (WASHINGTON3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB,JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born April 8, 1893 in Michigan, and died November 16, 1971 inInglewood, Los Angeles County, California. She married HERMAN FRAZIER. He was bornSeptember 16, 1887 in Mio, Michigan.

Children of LILLIAN REEDER and HERMAN FRAZIER are:i. ROBERT EDWARD5 FRAZIER, b. June 17, 1915, Watertown, New York; d. August 1978; m. JANE

ELIZABETH THOMPSON, April 16, 1944, Miami, Florida.ii. KATHLEEN FRAZIER, b. May 24, 1921; m. LYLE OWEN JEVONS, November 11, 1949, Whittier,

California.

38. WASHINGTON RANDALL GARBUTT4 REEDER (WASHINGTON3, EAMON2, MOSES1,

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JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born October 22, 1891 in Lake CityMichigan, and died November 27, 1964 in Owosso, Michigan. He married ANNA MAE KENT.

Children of WASHINGTON REEDER and ANNA KENT are:i. WAYNE R.5 REEDER, d. March 12, 1944, Honolulu, Hawaii.

ii. HELEN REEDER, b. June 24, 1923, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan; d. May 1977, Saginaw, Michigan; m.DONALD C. GRIFFIN; b. August 2, 1920; d. September 6, 1996, Saginaw, Michigan.

39. ALICE4 REEDER (SELINA3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD,JOHNE) was born Abt. 1868 in Canada. She married PERRY AURORA GIBSON, son of DANIELGIBSON and MARIAH CONANT. He was born August 25, 1855 in Crossingville, Erie County,Pennsylvania, and died December 30, 1907.

Child of ALICE REEDER and PERRY GIBSON is:i. OPALE R.5 GIBSON, b. Abt. 1893, Pennsylvania.

40. SUSANNAH4 MAWSON (JANE ELIZABETH3 REEDER, MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA,CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born September 26, 1858, and died March 19,1899. She married THOMAS APPLETON.

Child of SUSANNAH MAWSON and THOMAS APPLETON is:i. ELIZABETH5 APPLETON.

41. MOSES4 MAWSON (JANE ELIZABETH3 REEDER, MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA,CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born November 13, 1863 in Ontario, Canada, anddied November 16, 1948. He married SARAH HANNA PICKERING. She was born March 24,1868 in Ontario, Canada.

Children of MOSES MAWSON and SARAH PICKERING are:i. ELIZABETH5 MAWSON, b. 1888, McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada; d.

December 17, 1889, McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.ii. WILBERT MAWSON, b. September 28, 1892; d. August 30, 1962.

iii. ALICE E. MAWSON, b. April 9, 1894.

42. SARAH ANN4 YOUNG (SUSANNA3 REEDER, MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB,JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born April 30, 1873. She married MATTHEW ENGLAND.

Child of SARAH YOUNG and MATTHEW ENGLAND is:i. LAURA ETHEL5 ENGLAND, m. LORNE RUBEN FINKBEINER.

43. JAMES E. WILBERT4 YOUNG (SUSANNA3 REEDER, MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA,CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born April 11, 1881. He married EDITH EMMAHORNER March 6, 1903, daughter of WILLIAM HORNER and SARAH GORMLEY. She wasborn April 2, 1878.

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Children of JAMES YOUNG and EDITH HORNER are:i. LLOYD LAVERNE5 YOUNG.

ii. IDA ALICE YOUNG.iii. ELSIE EDITH YOUNG, d. 1990, Parkhill Union Cemetery, McGillivray Township, Middlesex

County, Ontario, Canada; m. WILLIAM HAROLD BROPHEY; b. August 10, 1902.iv. RAYMOND WILBERT YOUNG, b. June 6, 1923; d. February 8, 1973; m. UNKNOWN GEROMETTE.

44. MOSES4 REEDER (JOHN3, MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD,JOHNE) was born March 23, 1872 in McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario,Canada, and died September 4, 1911 in West McGillivray Township, York County, Ontario,Canada. He married MARY ANNIE MUNROE November 28, 1893 in Corbett, McGillivrayTownship, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada, daughter of ARCHIBALD MUNROE. She wasborn March 6, 1874 in West McGillivray Township, York County, Ontario, Canada, and died1950.

Child of MOSES REEDER and MARY MUNROE is:i. CLARA MUNROE5 REEDER, b. December 26, 1894, Ontario, Canada.

45. FRANCIS4 REEDER (JOHN3, MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC,ISAACD, JOHNE) was born June 22, 1874 in Ontario, Canada, and died September 19, 1940.He married CHARLOTTE A. LAWSON. She was born February 13, 1875 in Ontario, Canada,and died 1963.

Children of FRANCIS REEDER and CHARLOTTE LAWSON are:i. ELSIE ETHEL5 REEDER, b. July 11, 1911, McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario,

Canada; d. January 10, 1972, Stephen Township, Huron County, Ontario, Canada; m. DANIELCOOPER MCCURDY, April 14, 1931, Huron County, Ontario, Canada; b. May 7, 1902, StephenTownship, Huron County, Ontario, Canada; d. May 11, 1979, Stephen Township, HuronCounty, Ontario, Canada.

ii. GEORGE ELMER REEDER, b. 1903; d. 1952; m. MATILDA HOULDEN; b. 1904.iii. JOHN REEDER, b. April 28, 1908; d. September 22, 1966.iv. LINA REEDER.

46. SARAH MARIA EMMA4 REEDER (MOSES3, MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB,JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born January 23, 1876 in London, Ontario, Canada, and diedJanuary 31, 1960 in Wayne, Michigan. She married JOHN FRANCIS DURR January 1, 1896 inMcGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada, son of JOHN DURR and SARALARKIN. He was born August 23, 1858 in Yorkshire, England, and died September 9, 1949 inWayne, Michigan.

Children of SARAH REEDER and JOHN DURR are:i. FRANCIS EDGAR THORTON5 DURR, b. February 16, 1897.

ii. EARL RUSSEL DURR, b. November 29, 1899, Parkhill, Ontario, Canada; d. August 21, 1989; m.CLARA AGNES MCCABE; b. December 14, 1901, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; d. September 1976.

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Ancestors of Elizabeth Randall

Generation No. 1

1. Elizabeth Randall, born February 8, 1805 in Pennsylvania; died June 26, 1886 in Lake City, Michigan.She was the daughter of 2. Asa Randall and 3. Mary Collins. She married (1) Eamon Reeder Abt. 1830 inCanada. He was born March 31, 1809 in Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, and died October 6, 1885 in LakeCity, Michigan. He was the son of Moses Reeder and Catherine Moreland.

Generation No. 2

2. Asa Randall, born 1774 in Pennsylvania; died in Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada. He wasthe son of 4. Comly Randall and 5. Mary Phinney. He married 3. Mary Collins 1799.

3. Mary Collins She was the daughter of 6. Elijah Collins and 7. Rachel Webster.

Children of Asa Randall and Mary Collins are:i. Rachel Randall, born October 5, 1799; married John Hollingshead September 29, 1819 in Whitchurch

Township, York Co., Ontario, Canada; born December 17, 1795 in Whitchurch Township, YorkCounty, Ontario; died November 3, 1831.

ii. Joseph Randall, born March 12, 1803.1 iii. Elizabeth Randall, born February 8, 1805 in Pennsylvania; died June 26, 1886 in Lake City, Michigan;

married Eamon Reeder Abt. 1830 in Canada.iv. Edward Randall, born June 3, 1807; died March 8, 1877 in Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada;

married Susannah Millard March 16, 1834 in Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada; born May12, 1814 in Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada; died August 21, 1888 in Newmarket, YorkCounty, Ontario, Canada.

v. Jonathon Randall, born August 18, 1809 in Pine Orchard, York County, Ontario, Canada.vi. Agness Randall, born August 6, 1811.

vii. Comely Randall, born December 17, 1813; died December 4, 1872 in Pine Orchard, York County,Ontario, Canada; married Elizabeth Penrose March 11, 1839 in Markham Township, York County,Ontario; born October 28, 1818 in Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario, Canada; died April12, 1891 in Pine Orchard, York County, Ontario, Canada.

viii. William Randall, born October 20, 1817.

Generation No. 3

4. Comly Randall, born December 9, 1738; died 1801 in Muncy Township, Pennsylvania. He was the sonof 8. Nicholas Randall and 9. Agnes Comly. He married 5. Mary Phinney December 21, 1763.

5. Mary Phinney, born Abt. 1735.

Children of Comly Randall and Mary Phinney are:i. Jonathan Randall, married (1) Martha Collins; married (2) Sarah Collins Abt. 1808.

ii. Agnes Randall, born 1766 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; died August 18, 1843 in PineOrchard, York County, Ontario, Canada; married William Lundy 1795; born June 1, 1770 inHunterdon, New Jersey.

iii. Phebe Randall, born September 25, 1770; died December 24, 1855 in Pine Orchard, York County,Ontario, Canada; married Henry Widdifield January 23, 1805.

iv. Mary Randall, born 1772; married Joseph Widdifield.2 v. Asa Randall, born 1774 in Pennsylvania; died in Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada; married

Mary Collins 1799.vi. Edward Randall, born February 21, 1776.

vii. Joseph Randall, born May 25, 1778; died 1825 in Canada; married Huldah Wasley March 18, 1801;born 1783; died 1857.

viii. Elizabeth Randall, born November 18, 1780.

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6. Elijah Collins, born Abt. 1733. He married 7. Rachel Webster November 10, 1763 in Hunterdon, NewJersey.

7. Rachel Webster

Children of Elijah Collins and Rachel Webster are:3 i. Mary Collins, married Asa Randall 1799.

ii. Sarah Collins

Generation No. 4

8. Nicholas Randall, born Abt. 1710 in Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; died 1783in Moreland Township, Pennsylvania. He married 9. Agnes Comly January 27, 1738.

9. Agnes Comly, born February 20, 1713 in Pennsylvania; died February 22, 1779 in Pennsylvania. Shewas the daughter of 18. Henry Comly and 19. Agnes Heaton.

Child of Nicholas Randall and Agnes Comly is:4 i. Comly Randall, born December 9, 1738; died 1801 in Muncy Township, Pennsylvania; married Mary

Phinney December 21, 1763.

Generation No. 5

18. Henry Comly, born October 25, 1674 in Bedminster, Somersetshire, England; died March 16, 1727 inMoreland Township, Pennslyvania. He was the son of 36. Henry Comly and 37. Joan Tyler. He married 19.Agnes Heaton October 17, 1695 in Middletown Meeting, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

19. Agnes Heaton, born February 9, 1677 in Settle, York, England; died December 30, 1743 in BucksCounty, Pennsylvania.

Children of Henry Comly and Agnes Heaton are:9 i. Agnes Comly, born February 20, 1713 in Pennsylvania; died February 22, 1779 in Pennsylvania;

married Nicholas Randall January 27, 1738.ii. Robert Comly, born June 12, 1704 in Byberry, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; died March 1770 in

Horsham Township, Pennsylvania.

Generation No. 6

36. Henry Comly He married 37. Joan Tyler.37. Joan Tyler

Child of Henry Comly and Joan Tyler is:18 i. Henry Comly, born October 25, 1674 in Bedminster, Somersetshire, England; died March 16, 1727 in

Moreland Township, Pennslyvania; married Agnes Heaton October 17, 1695 in Middletown Meeting,Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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Ancestors of Elizabeth Bateman

Generation No. 1

1. Elizabeth Bateman, born April 14, 1837 in Canada; died April 1, 1865 in Oakwood, Victoria County,Ontario, Canada. She was the daughter of 2. George Bateman and 3. Jane Penrose. She married (1) DanielReeder February 15, 1855. He was born June 24, 1833 in Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada, anddied April 26, 1912 in Lake City, Michigan. He was the son of Eamon Reeder and Elizabeth Randall.

Generation No. 2

2. George Bateman, born October 28, 1810 in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England; died March 31, 1869 inOakwood, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. He was the son of 4. William Bateman and5. Lydia Norman. He married 3. Jane Penrose March 2, 1834.

3. Jane Penrose, born 1816 in Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; died April 11, 1865 in MariposaTownship, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. She was the daughter of 6. Thomas Yarnell Penrose and 7.Mary Taylor.

Children of George Bateman and Jane Penrose are:i. Mary Bateman, born December 22, 1834.

ii. William Bateman, born February 7, 1836 in Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; died February 3, 1908;married Nancy Varnum; born Abt. 1843; died June 28, 1903.

1 iii. Elizabeth Bateman, born April 14, 1837 in Canada; died April 1, 1865 in Oakwood, Victoria County,Ontario, Canada; married Daniel Reeder February 15, 1855.

iv. Rachael Bateman, born September 1, 1838; married Charles Butcher.v. John Merrick Bateman, born June 8, 1840 in Victoria county, Ontario, Canada; died June 3, 1921 in

Chicago, Illinois; married Margaret Morgan; born May 29, 1849 in Victoria County, Ontario, Canada;died February 21, 1883 in Bowesmont, Pembina, North Dakota.

vi. David Bateman, born May 3, 1844 in Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; diedFebruary 19, 1886 in Grand Forks, North Dakota; married Rebecca Reader February 27, 1866 inMethodist Episcopal Church, Port Perry, Ontario, Canada; born April 29, 1845 in Ontario, Canada;died May 30, 1931 in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

vii. Lydia Jane Bateman, born April 1, 1846 in Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada.viii. Francis Bateman, born January 29, 1848.

ix. Barbara Ann Bateman, born June 25, 1849; married Myron H. D. Silver.x. George Arthur Bateman, born August 12, 1852; died February 10, 1933; married Elizabeth Janet Mara.

Generation No. 3

4. William Bateman, born September 3, 1786 in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England; died in Youlgreave,Derbyshire, England. He was the son of 8. John Bateman and 9. Ann Millard. He married 5. Lydia NormanDecember 22, 1806 in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England.

5. Lydia Norman, born 1785 in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England; died April 16, 1823 in Youlgreave,Derbyshire, England. She was the daughter of 10. George Norman.

Children of William Bateman and Lydia Norman are:i. William Bateman, born August 21, 1801.

2 ii. George Bateman, born October 28, 1810 in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England; died March 31, 1869 inOakwood, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; married (1) Jane Penrose March 2,1834; married (2) Eleanor Doughty Abt. 1865.

iii. Mary Ann Bateman, born 1813.iv. Hannah Bateman, born 1819.v. Francis Bateman, born March 3, 1822.

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6. Thomas Yarnell Penrose, born Abt. 1792 in Roaring Creek, Columbia County, Pennsylvania; diedSeptember 17, 1871 in Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. He was the son of 12. IsaacPenrose and 13. Rachael Yarnell. He married 7. Mary Taylor April 12, 1815.

7. Mary Taylor, born Abt. 1800; died Abt. 1868 in Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario,Canada. She was the daughter of 14. David Taylor and 15. Elizabeth Shotwell.

Children of Thomas Penrose and Mary Taylor are:3 i. Jane Penrose, born 1816 in Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; died April 11, 1865 in Mariposa

Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; married George Bateman March 2, 1834.ii. Rachel Penrose

iii. David Penroseiv. Richard Penrosev. Charles Penrose

vi. Joseph Penrose, born 1822 in Whitchurch Twp, York Co., Ontario; died November 21, 1910 inOakwood, Mariposa Twp., Ontario.

vii. Mary Ann Penrose, born Abt. 1827; married Charles Conner January 29, 1849 in Mariposa Township,Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; born Abt. 1825.

Generation No. 4

8. John Bateman, born January 27, 1760. He married 9. Ann Millard.9. Ann Millard

Child of John Bateman and Ann Millard is:4 i. William Bateman, born September 3, 1786 in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England; died in Youlgreave,

Derbyshire, England; married Lydia Norman December 22, 1806 in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England.

10. George Norman, born Abt. 1751 in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England; died Abt. 1837 in Youlgreave,Derbyshire, England.

Child of George Norman is:5 i. Lydia Norman, born 1785 in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England; died April 16, 1823 in Youlgreave,

Derbyshire, England; married William Bateman December 22, 1806 in Youlgreave, Derbyshire,England.

12. Isaac Penrose, born July 27, 1757 in Maiden Creek, Berks Co., Pennsylvania; died August 3, 1825 inNewmarket,York County, Ontario, Canada. He married 13. Rachael Yarnell.

13. Rachael Yarnell, born December 28, 1759 in Roaring Creek, Pennsylvania; died August 30, 1836 inNewmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada. She was the daughter of 26. Francis Yarnell and 27. MaryLincoln.

Children of Isaac Penrose and Rachael Yarnell are:i. Isaac Penrose, Jr., born in Roaring Creek, Columbia Co., Pennsylvania; died January 15, 1843 in

Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario, Canada.ii. Peter Penrose

6 iii. Thomas Yarnell Penrose, born Abt. 1792 in Roaring Creek, Columbia County, Pennsylvania; diedSeptember 17, 1871 in Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; married Mary TaylorApril 12, 1815.

iv. Mary Penrose, born January 6, 1792 in Roaring Creek, Columbia Co., Pennsylvania; died December 27,1846; married John Merrick January 24, 1811.

v. Joseph Penrose, born May 31, 1796 in Roaring Creek, Columbia Co., Pennsylvania; died June 27, 1882in Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario, Canada; married (1) Harriet Playter June 1, 1818 inWhitchurch Township, York County, Ontario, Canada; born May 14, 1799; died April 7, 1852 inWhitchurch Township, York County, Ontario, Canada; married (2) Sylvia Ann Rose July 8, 1864 inEast Gwillumbury, York County, Ontario, Canada; born Abt. 1826.

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vi. Martha Penrose, born in Roaring Creek, Columbia Co., Pennsylvania; died February 15, 1856 inNewmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada.

vii. Margaret Penrose, born November 30, 1800 in Roaring Creek, Columbia Co., Pennsylvania; diedNovember 14, 1861.

viii. Jesse Penrose, born May 14, 1807 in Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario, Canada.

14. David Taylor He married 15. Elizabeth Shotwell.15. Elizabeth Shotwell

Child of David Taylor and Elizabeth Shotwell is:7 i. Mary Taylor, born Abt. 1800; died Abt. 1868 in Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario,

Canada; married Thomas Yarnell Penrose April 12, 1815.

Generation No. 5

26. Francis Yarnell, born July 27, 1719 in Willistown Twp., Chester County, Pennsylvania; died Abt.1781 in Augusta Twp., Northold County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of 52. Peter Yarnell. He married 27.Mary Lincoln May 10, 1743 in Oley Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

27. Mary Lincoln, born September 27, 1719 in Amity, Berkshire, County, Pennsylvania; died 1769 inPennsylvania. She was the daughter of 54. Mordecai Lincoln and 55. Hannah Salter.

Child of Francis Yarnell and Mary Lincoln is:13 i. Rachael Yarnell, born December 28, 1759 in Roaring Creek, Pennsylvania; died August 30, 1836 in

Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada; married Isaac Penrose.

Generation No. 6

52. Peter Yarnell

Child of Peter Yarnell is:26 i. Francis Yarnell, born July 27, 1719 in Willistown Twp., Chester County, Pennsylvania; died Abt. 1781

in Augusta Twp., Northold County, Pennsylvania; married Mary Lincoln May 10, 1743 in OleyTownship, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

54. Mordecai Lincoln, born April 24, 1686 in Norfolk, MA; died May 12, 1736 in Amity, Pennsylvania.He married 55. Hannah Salter.

55. Hannah Salter

Children of Mordecai Lincoln and Hannah Salter are:27 i. Mary Lincoln, born September 27, 1719 in Amity, Berkshire, County, Pennsylvania; died 1769 in

Pennsylvania; married Francis Yarnell May 10, 1743 in Oley Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.ii. Deborah Lincoln

iii. Mordecai Lincolniv. Sarah Lincolnv. Hannah Lincoln

vi. John Lincoln, died 1788.

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Ancestors of Lulu Belle Sharp

Generation No. 1

1. Lulu Belle Sharp, born September 2, 1872 in Lamar, Barton County, Missouri; died November 28,1931 in Montclair, San Bernardino County, California. She was the daughter of 2. Lawson Sharp and 3.Mary Phillips Wood. She married (1) John Cumley Reeder April 18, 1894 in Pomona, Los Angeles County,California. He was born September 18, 1862 in Victoria County, Ontario, Canada, and died June 28, 1933 inMontclair, San Bernardino County, California. He was the son of Daniel Reeder and Elizabeth Bateman.

Generation No. 2

2. Lawson Sharp, born June 23, 1828 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; died May 16, 1888 in Lamar,Barton County, Missouri. He was the son of 4. William H. Sharp and 5. Barbara Hunter. He married 3.Mary Phillips Wood November 26, 1854.

3. Mary Phillips Wood, born July 11, 1830 in Casey County, Kentucky; died August 10, 1883 in Lamar,Barton County, Missouri. She was the daughter of 6. Abraham Wood and 7. Patsey Martha Wilson.

Children of Lawson Sharp and Mary Wood are:i. Clara Alice Sharp, born October 1855 in Illinois; died May 2, 1936 in Barton County, Missouri;

married (1) William H. Finley October 30, 1876 in Lamar, Barton County, Missouri; born April 3,1843 in Macoupin County, Illinois; died January 13, 1893 in Lamar, Barton County, Missouri; married(2) John L. Harness October 18, 1900 in Lamar, Barton County, Missouri; died May 21, 1943 inLamar, Barton County, Missouri.

ii. Lloyd W. Sharp, born 1857 in Illinois; died 1931; married Mary Frost; born Abt. 1862 in Illinois.iii. Laura Ann Sharp, born January 16, 1859 in Illinois; died February 22, 1942 in Los Angeles County,

California; married Edgar Lewis Parrish October 22, 1874 in Lamar, Barton County, Missouri; bornAbt. 1853 in Barton County, Missouri.

iv. Mary Ella Sharp, born December 22, 1863 in Illinois; died September 8, 1950 in Ventura County,California; married John Clark Powell Abt. 1881; born Abt. 1847 in Tennessee; died March 25, 1912 inSan Bernardino County, California.

v. Robert Wood Sharp, born January 12, 1866 in Illinois; died May 25, 1950 in Los Angeles County,California; married Anna Belle Gullic; born August 5, 1873 in Illinois; died March 3, 1942 in LosAngeles County, California.

vi. Norah Sharp, born Abt. 1868 in Illinois; died March 22, 1884 in Central Township, Barton County,Missouri.

vii. Emma Sharp, born January 29, 1870 in Lamar, Barton County, Missouri; died March 30, 1946; marriedPreston Mills March 13, 1892 in Los Angeles County, California; born July 17, 1861; died November1, 1941.

1 viii. Lulu Belle Sharp, born September 2, 1872 in Lamar, Barton County, Missouri; died November 28,1931 in Montclair, San Bernardino County, California; married John Cumley Reeder April 18, 1894 inPomona, Los Angeles County, California.

Generation No. 3

4. William H. Sharp, born June 13, 1799 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; died June 20, 1875 inSharpsburg, Christian County, Illinois. He was the son of 8. John Sharp and 9. Winfred Kirk. He married 5.Barbara Hunter October 21, 1819 in Union County, Tennessee.

5. Barbara Hunter, born November 9, 1798 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; died August 26, 1838 inScottsville, Macoupin County, Illinois. She was the daughter of 10. Henry Hunter and 11. Barbara Bolinger.

Children of William Sharp and Barbara Hunter are:i. Elizabeth Sharp, born October 23, 1820 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; died February 17, 1909 in

Carrolton, Greene County, Illinois; married Joseph Montgomery June 9, 1839 in Macoupin County,

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Illinois.ii. John Sharp, born November 23, 1822 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; died September 20, 1913 in

Sharpsburg, Illinois; married Emeline Redfern September 9, 1849 in Sharpsburg, Illinois; born 1828 inMacoupin County, Illinois; died October 25, 1880 in Sharpsburg, Illinois.

iii. Henry Hunter Sharp, born December 20, 1824 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; died February 7, 1890in Christian County, Illinois; married Clarinda Redfern June 26, 1851 in Macoupin County, Illinois;born September 26, 1833 in Scottsville, Macoupin County, Illinois; died February 15, 1929 inSharpsburg, Illinois.

iv. Winifred Sharp, born July 26, 1826; died April 2, 1876; married Gabriel Hurt.2 v. Lawson Sharp, born June 23, 1828 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; died May 16, 1888 in Lamar,

Barton County, Missouri; married Mary Phillips Wood November 26, 1854.vi. George Riley Sharp, born January 3, 1830; died July 29, 1887; married Susan Hanon September 28,

1856; born February 19, 1838.vii. Louisa Sharp, born 1832; married John Fair January 11, 1855 in Macoupin County, Illinois.

viii. William Newton Sharp, born December 18, 1833 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; died December 26,1910 in Missouri; married Martha A Minnis October 11, 1857 in Illinois.

ix. Barbara Sharp, born 1836 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; married Thomas J. Fair.x. Polly Sharp, born 1837 in Macoupin County, Illinois; married Wesley Henderson December 5, 1854 in

Litchfield, Montgomery County, Illinois.

6. Abraham Wood, born January 25, 1782 in Virginia; died August 25, 1835 in Casey County, Kentucky.He married 7. Patsey Martha Wilson November 27, 1821 in Barren County, Kentucky.

7. Patsey Martha Wilson, born Abt. 1786 in Kentucky; died July 20, 1850. She was the daughter of 14.Thomas Wilson and 15. Esther Walker.

Children of Abraham Wood and Patsey Wilson are:i. Betsey Ann Wood, born November 11, 1822 in Casey County, Kentucky; died October 7, 1896 in

Illinois; married Benjamin Drake.ii. Julia Ann Wood, born March 2, 1824.

iii. Clarinda Walker Wood, born October 6, 1825 in Casey County, Kentucky; died December 7, 1911 inRhodes, Marshall, Iowa; married James Greene Allen January 25, 1848 in Liberty, Casey County,Kentucky; born November 1825 in Liberty, Casey County, Kentucky.

iv. Rebecca Frances Wood, born January 24, 1827 in Casey County, Kentucky; died January 25, 1848.v. Abraham Wilson Wood, born December 4, 1828 in Casey County, Kentucky.

3 vi. Mary Phillips Wood, born July 11, 1830 in Casey County, Kentucky; died August 10, 1883 in Lamar,Barton County, Missouri; married Lawson Sharp November 26, 1854.

vii. Susan Emiline Wood, born August 19, 1832 in Casey County, Kentucky; married Joseph Butcher; bornAbt. 1828.

viii. Minerva Isabelle Wood, born April 11, 1834 in Casey County, Kentucky; married John Tucker; bornAbt. 1834 in Kentucky.

Generation No. 4

8. John Sharp, born August 21, 1777 in Montgomery County, Illinois; died August 20, 1838 in MacoupinCounty, Illinois. He was the son of 16. George Sharp and 17. Catherine Elizabeth. He married 9. WinfredKirk August 28, 1798 in Montgomery County, Illinois.

9. Winfred Kirk, born March 3, 1778 in Montgomery County, Illinois; died August 30, 1836 inMacoupin County, Illinois. She was the daughter of 18. William Kirk and 19. Agnes Cain.

Child of John Sharp and Winfred Kirk is:4 i. William H. Sharp, born June 13, 1799 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; died June 20, 1875 in

Sharpsburg, Christian County, Illinois; married (1) Elizabeth Wilson; married (2) Barbara HunterOctober 21, 1819 in Union County, Tennessee.

10. Henry Hunter, born 1768 in Plum Run, Washington County, Maryland; died August 1826. He wasthe son of 20. John Hunter and 21. Barbara Bowman. He married 11. Barbara Bolinger.

11. Barbara Bolinger, born 1769; died December 3, 1846.

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Child of Henry Hunter and Barbara Bolinger is:5 i. Barbara Hunter, born November 9, 1798 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; died August 26, 1838 in

Scottsville, Macoupin County, Illinois; married William H. Sharp October 21, 1819 in Union County,Tennessee.

14. Thomas Wilson, born March 13, 1765 in Botecourt County, Virgina. He married 15. Esther WalkerOctober 28, 1791 in Botecourt County, Virgina.

15. Esther Walker She was the daughter of 30. William Walker and 31. Mary Unknown.

Child of Thomas Wilson and Esther Walker is:7 i. Patsey Martha Wilson, born Abt. 1786 in Kentucky; died July 20, 1850; married Abraham Wood

November 27, 1821 in Barren County, Kentucky.

Generation No. 5

16. George Sharp, born July 25, 1755 in Virginia; died September 25, 1833 in Macoupin County, Illinois.He was the son of 32. John George Sharp and 33. Anna Marie Loy. He married 17. Catherine Elizabeth.

17. Catherine Elizabeth

Child of George Sharp and Catherine Elizabeth is:8 i. John Sharp, born August 21, 1777 in Montgomery County, Illinois; died August 20, 1838 in Macoupin

County, Illinois; married Winfred Kirk August 28, 1798 in Montgomery County, Illinois.

18. William Kirk, born Abt. 1754 in Fauquier County, Virginia; died Abt. 1837 in Scottville, MacoupinCounty, Illinois. He married 19. Agnes Cain.

19. Agnes Cain

Child of William Kirk and Agnes Cain is:9 i. Winfred Kirk, born March 3, 1778 in Montgomery County, Illinois; died August 30, 1836 in Macoupin

County, Illinois; married John Sharp August 28, 1798 in Montgomery County, Illinois.

20. John Hunter He married 21. Barbara Bowman.21. Barbara Bowman

Child of John Hunter and Barbara Bowman is:10 i. Henry Hunter, born 1768 in Plum Run, Washington County, Maryland; died August 1826; married

Barbara Bolinger.

30. William Walker, born Abt. 1725; died Abt. 1810 in Botetourt County, Virgina. He was the son of 60.Henry Walker. He married 31. Mary Unknown.

31. Mary Unknown

Children of William Walker and Mary Unknown are:15 i. Esther Walker, married Thomas Wilson October 28, 1791 in Botecourt County, Virgina.

ii. Sarah Walker, married Isaac Snodgrass.iii. Mary Walkeriv. Henry Walkerv. Nancy Walker, married Thomas Harmon.

vi. William Walker, Jr., born March 1759; died November 28, 1838 in Ohio.vii. George Walker, married Mary Adams.

viii. John H. Walker, married Sarah Susannah Givens.ix. James Walker, married Jane Cardin.

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Generation No. 6

32. John George Sharp, born Abt. 1722 in Palatinate, Germany; died Abt. 1789 in Orange County, NorthCarolina. He was the son of 64. Aaron Sharp. He married 33. Anna Marie Loy.

33. Anna Marie Loy

Child of John Sharp and Anna Loy is:16 i. George Sharp, born July 25, 1755 in Virginia; died September 25, 1833 in Macoupin County, Illinois;

married Catherine Elizabeth.

60. Henry Walker

Child of Henry Walker is:30 i. William Walker, born Abt. 1725; died Abt. 1810 in Botetourt County, Virgina; married Mary

Unknown.

Generation No. 7

64. Aaron Sharp, born Abt. 1699 in Palatinate, Germany; died Abt. 1756 in Draper's Meadow, Virgina.

Child of Aaron Sharp is:32 i. John George Sharp, born Abt. 1722 in Palatinate, Germany; died Abt. 1789 in Orange County, North

Carolina; married Anna Marie Loy.

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Appendix A

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Obituary of Emon Reeder from the Canadian Post -Lindsay, Ontario October 30, 1885page 8, Column 2

OAKWOOD(Correspondence of the Post.)

OBITUARY. Mr. Charles Reeder returned on the 26th inst. from Lake City, Michigan,whither he had been called to the dying bed of his father, the late Emon Reeder, butunfortunately he arrived there about two hours too late to see him alive. The manyfriends here unite in regretting his death, for although he had passed by some years thespan of life allotted to our race, he was hale and hearty up to the recent attack thatcarried him off. Mr. Reeder was a man not soon to be forgotten. Free, hearty andgenerous in his nature, his acquaintances were all his friends, and being a pioneersettler here on lots 15 and 16, 6th concession, where he soon by carefulness andindustry acquired a competence, he was well known all over this region and was alwayswilling with a free hand to help all deserving projects. In religion he was attached to theSociety of Friends; in politics an ardent reformer, not waiting to see how this one or thatone decided but was reliable every time. At one time he came all the way from Michiganto vote for Hon. S.C. Wood in a prospectively close election. Subjoined is an obituarynotice from the Lake City Era: -

Emon Reeder of Lake City, Mich., died on the 6 th of Oct., 1885, of cancer of the stomach inthe 77 th year of his age. Mr. Reeder was born in Bucks county , Pennsylvania, in the year 1809and with his father's family moved from there to Canada in the year 1816. Here he grew up andresided until the spring of the year 1875, at which time he removed to this place, where heresided until the time of his death. At the age of about 21 years Mr. R. was married to MissElizabeth Randall, who has since shared his joys and sorrows, and now survives him "onlywaiting to be delivered from the weight of years." The best years of his life, as has already beenintimated, were spent in Canada, where he had by energy, industry and frugality, acquired a fineproperty a valuable farm, which he owned at the time of his death. Here too, he reared a familyof children, six of whom survive him, viz., Chas Reeder of Oakwood, Ont.; the Messrs. Daniel,Washington and William Reeder, and Mrs. J. Pollard of Lake City, Mich., who are in everyrespect the pioneers of this county; and Mrs. Lina Reeder of Edinboro, Pa.; all of whom arehonored citizens of the respective communities in which they live. Mr. Reeder had always beena man of wonderful constitution and vitality, and until within three months of his death, did notknow what it was to be sick. In the early stages of his illness the best local physicians wereemployed without benefit; later on he was induced to go to Ann Arbor for treatment, where, indue time, the medical authorities announced that he had cancer of the stomach, and wasincurable. He was then only permitted to reach home, as it were, when he was called upon,even when life was still sweet, to leave his wife, children, relatives, friends and neighbors, anddepart hence to the untried scenes of another world. His funeral was conducted from his lateresidence on Thursday afternoon. The public school was closed, business generally wassuspended during the services, and the populace, almost as one man, turned out to pay a lasttribute of respect to the honored dead.

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Appendix B

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Missaukee Republican

Lake City, MichiganThursday, May 2, 1912

DEATH OF DANIEL REEDER__________

Early Pioneer and Founder of VillagePassed Away Last Friday Evening.

Daniel Reeder, founder of the village of Lake City, died Friday evening at nine o'clock at hishome on North Main St. in this village after an eight months' illness, the greater part of whichtime he was confined to his bed. Death was due to a general breaking down in his advanced age.

Daniel Reeder was born in Whitchurch township, Ontario, June 24, 1833, making his age atdeath 78 years, 10 months and 2 days. When but a few years of age his family moved toMariposa, Ontario, where he lived until coming to Michigan in 1867.

After spending about a year in Lapeer and Mecosta counties, he came to Missaukee countyMay 18, 1868, where he has since continuously resided, his life being closely identified with thehistory and development of this village and county.

He was one of the first four to make homes in the then unbroken territory at present includedin the boundaries of Missaukee county. For fourteen miles a road had to be chopped through theforest from the termination of the Big Rapids - Falmouth road to the present site of Lake City.Here he erected a log house very close to the site of the present residence of Chas. L. Ostrander.This was the first house erected in Lake City.

Mr. Reeder became at once the owner of 320 acres of land described as the north half ofSection 6, homesteading 160 acres and purchasing 160 acres. The west portion of this tract isnow included in the corporate limits of the village.

Supplies and mail in those early days were brought at irregular intervals from Traverse Citybut in 1872 a postoffice was established in Lake City with Mr. Reeder as the first postmaster.Mail was then secured regularly once each week from Cadillac, the postmaster acting as thecarrier.

Mr. Reeder was the chairman of the first county board of supervisors which met at a farm twomiles from Falmouth in 1871. He was the owner of the first saw-mill erected in Lake City, its

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location being near what is now known as the Arbuckle mill site.

In the somewhatclose and exciting contest which marked the removal of the county seat fromFalmouth in 1873, much of Lake City's success was due to the energy and perseverance of Mr.Reeder.

In 1888, he established the local water works system which he managed and owned until 1894when he sold to F. N. McClellan. Later the property again came into his hands at different timesuntil sold to the present owner. For some years he was also one of the principal stockholders inthe Missaukee Co. Bank.

For seventeen years, the condition of Mr. Reeder's health had compelled his spending hiswinters in the south where Mrs. Reeder accompanied him each year. The past winter, however,he was unable to make the trip.

Mr. Reeder was first married to Elizabeth Bateman and to this union were born five children,three of whom, Mrs. Agnes Ransom and Mrs. Orilla J. Ostrander of this place, and John C.Reeder of Ontario, California, survive him. George E. was killed in a railroad accident at Duluthin 1901 and Miss Elizabeth died at the age of thirteen years.

Several years after Mrs. Reeder's death he was again married, Feb. 29, 1872, to Miss Mary A.Quick. To this union were born two children, Martin D. Reeder and Mrs. William H. White,both of Boyne City, who, with the widow, survive him.

Mr. Reeder had been a consistent and faithful member of the local M. E. church and one of itsleading officials practically the entire time since its organization. He was always greatlyinterested in church work.

He was a man of utmost rectitude of character, signally true and sincere in all the relations oflife and well merited the great affection and high esteem in which he was held by family andfriends. His name will ever appear on the honor roll of sterling pioneers who contributed so muchto the upbuilding of our county.

Funeral services held at M. E. church Sunday afternoon at three o'clock with interment in thelocal cemetery. The services were conducted by Rev. Jenkins, assisted by the Rev. Jenkins,assisted by the Rev. Sidebotham.

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Card of Thanks

To the Epworth League of the Methodist Episcopal Church:We want to thank you for the beautiful flowers you sent to us in sympathy. It was a great

comfort to know our friends remembered our loved one and ourselves.Very sincerely,

Mary Reeder

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Martin D. ReederWilliam ReederOrilla OstranderAgnes RansomMary Louise White

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Appendix C

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OBITUARY

Canadian Christian Advocate May 31, 1865.

Died in the Township of Mariposa on the 1st of April, Elizabeth Reader, after anillness of nine days. Sister Reader was converted to God about seven years ago, underthe labors of the Rev. J. Cook united with our church at that time, and continued amember until it pleased God to remove her to another and we trust a better world. Maythe God of all our mercies sustain her husband and friends, and kindly care for the littleones she has left behind.

Also, Jane wife of George Bateman and mother of the above in the 49th year of her age,and the 30th year of her connection with the church.

Sister Bateman and her husband were among the first who settled in Mariposa. Theirhouse was always open to receive the servants of God. She died on the 11th of April,after an illness of five days, brought on no doubt by over-exertion at he time of herdaughter's illness and death. Sister Bateman was an affectionate wife and mother. Sheleaves an affectionate husband and a large family to mourn, but they sorrow not asthose who have no hope, believing their loss to be her gain.

Friend after friend departs Who has not lost a friend? There is no union here of hearts That finds not here an end. J. P. Sparrow

Research Note : J. Cook was minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Oakwood from 1858 to 1860and J.P. Sparrow was minister in 1864. At the time of the above obituary, J.M. Simpson was minister(1865-1867). Rev. Simpson probably wrote at least part of the obituary. Source: Irwin, Ross W., 1984,Mariposa, The Banner Township, A History of the Township of Mariposa, Victoria County, Ontario: RossIrwin Enterprises, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

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Appendix D

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OBITUARY

LAKE CITY, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1914

THE LAST TRIBUTEMrs. Mary Reeder, Lake City's Pioneer Bride, Laid to Rest.

Loved by Many, Respected and Esteemed by all, her Death is Sincerely Mourned by a LargeNumber

Mrs. Mary Reeder, who died March 25th at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W.H. White ofBoyne City, was brought here and on Saturday morning was laid to rest in the cemetery herebeside her husband. Services were held in the M.E. church, conducted by her pastor, Rev. C.S.Jenkins, who delivered a touching eulogy of the departed.

Mary Quick was born in New Jersey and grew to young womanhood there, a daughter of aPresbyterian pastor of that that state, Rev. John J. Quick. When she was a young woman, thefamily emigrated to the wilds of Northern Michigan, settling in Grand Traverse county. Dollarswere none too plentiful in the pioneer homes of the late sixties or early seventies, and Mary tookup the then poorly paid work of teaching a small school, and boarded at the home of a mannamed Clark.

Sometime in 1871, Daniel Reeder, the pioneer resident of Lake City, who had not long beforehomesteaded the land on which the village was afterwards built, while going back and forthbetween his home here and Traverse City which was the nearest post office and market town,stopped at the Clark home, and met the fair young school ma'am and straightway wooed and laterwon her. They were married at her home, her father performing the ceremony, on the 29th day ofFebruary 1872, so that they only celebrated a wedding anniversary once in four years. She was atonce brought to Lake City as a bride, and shared the hardships, the laughter and the tears of thelife of the pioneers of this locality. The life was crude, and all things were new and raw, but shewas always a brave soul, not easily daunted, able usually to carry her own burden smiling, andhelp some other person not so fortunate or perhaps not so brave. Two children came in a fewyears, to add to her joys and labor, Martin D., now of Boyne City and Alpena, and Louise, nowMrs. Wm. White of Boyne City.

Here in Lake City, she spent the rest of her life, save for spending the winters late years in amilder climate. Here she raised her children, and saw them marry and find homes of their own.

Her husband's health failed several years before his death, and to her other duties she addedthat of constant nurse, business manager and devoted attendant to her husband. Possessed ofinfinite patience and tact, she shielded him from all worries, and gave him a devotion seldom

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seen.

Mrs. Reeder was one of the founders of the Methodist church here, and has ever since beenone of the thoroughly dependable mainstays of the organization. In fair weather or foul, she wasone of the faithful who could always be depended upon to be loyal to the pastor and the bestinterests of the church.

The "Old Settlers Society" of this county owes its existence largely to her interest and labor.She was probably the originator of the idea, in the first place, and gave her time and much workto making its meetings successful and interesting. She was the historical secretary of the societyduring its lifetime, and to her fell the melancholy duty each year of reporting the vacancies madeby its ranks each year by death, and now a successor must be chosen to perform the sad servicefor her.

Possessing a strong character, decided opinions, backed by a strong will, her unfailing tactnevertheless enabled her to preserve friendship with all, and while yielding no principle shedeemed worth while, she was always willing to concede non-essentials, and never allowed herpersonal claims to recognition to stand in any one else's way.

The high personal esteem in which Lake City people held her, was indicated at her funeral.On the busiest day of the week, practically every business house was represented by its head, andthe church was crowed, while the casket and altar were buried in flowers, the gifts of manypeople.

Mrs. Reeder would have been 64 years of age in May next. While her health had not been ofthe best for some years, no immediate danger was anticipated by any. She was spending thewinter as usual at St. Petersburg, Florida, when word was received that she was seriously ill. Herson Martin and his wife hastened to her side, and Mrs. W.H. White was notified at Vancouver,B.C., whither she had accompanied her husband on a business trip. She started at once, and wasmet in Florida by the party, on their way north, the physicians there having advised them to takethe patient home, since she wanted to go. Reaching Boyne City, every attention was given her,and she seemed to rally, and her recovery was regarded as probable, until two or three hoursbefore her death. It appeared to be a general breaking down, from which she had not sufficientvitality to rally.

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Appendix E

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Page 64-65, Missaukee County Family Histories, 1983, Missaukee County Historical Society

Daniel Reeder and Family

Daniel Reeder and the Reeder family were among the county's earliest and most influentialsettlers. Daniel was born in New Market, York County, Canada, June 24, 1833. In 1836, thefamily moved to Oakwood, Victoria County, Canada. Daniel homesteaded in Missaukee Countyin 1868. His brothers, Charles, William, Washington and sister Harriet Pollard, and his parents,Eamon and Elizabeth also homesteaded in and around the Lake City area.

Daniel Reeder married Elizabeth Bateman on February 15, 1855. Their children were AgnesRanson, George, John, Orilla Ostrander and Lizzie. Elizabeth died April 1, 1865.

In the autumn of 1867, Mr. Reeder came to Big Rapids and remained there during the winter.On May 1, 1868, he and four others organized themselves into a company to come to MissaukeeCounty to look for a home. They came as far as McDonald's Camp on the Clam River, a mile anda half below Pinhook, (Falmouth), which was the end of the road. From there they walked,arriving at Muskrat (Missaukee) Lake on May 12 and stayed all night on it's banks. The next day,Mr. Reeder looked over the adjoining country and determined to locate beside Muskrat Lake.His companions laughed at his decision but could not disuade him.

Taking a compass course, Mr. Reeder arrived at Traverse City on the night of May 17. On the18th, he located the north half of section 6. His new land fronted for a half mile on the eastshores of the lake.

On June 16, the five, reinforced by William Reeder, returned to the area with wagon and team.Next forenoon, they cut logs and put up a shanty, 14 by 20, one story high, which was the firstbuilding of any kind built by a white man on Muskrat Lake. The next morning, three started forTraverse City where William Reeder located his land.

Dan and William remained here during the summer and in the fall returned to Canada. InOctober, he was accompanied by his children and his brother Washington, who also located a one-quarter section and filed on it at Traverse City.

Sometime in October of 1868, Daniel and his brother moved his family to Michigan. At TraverseCity, Mr. Reeder purchased provisions for them, and one horse and a two-wheel cart on which totransport their belongings to Lake City.

There was no extra room in the cart and Agnes trekked the distance on foot. The first day out herfeet became so sore and swollen that she could no longer keep going. They stayed in Mayfieldthat night and the next day. One night was spent in the wilderness around a camp fire and theevening of the last days travel found them at the home of M.D. Richardson, whose home was inPioneer Township.

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They arrived in Lake City the following day about noon, very tired but happy they had reachedhome. Agnes fed the hungry family pancakes.

Daniel married Mary Quick on February 29, 1872. Mary's father, John, her brother, Peter and hersister, Susan Quick all homesteaded in the region. Daniel and Mary had two children: MartinDaniel, believed to be the first white child born in the Lake City area, and Mary Louisa. ClaribelReeder, daughter of Washington and Wilmina Reeder was the first girl to be born in Lake City.She was called and continued to be the Belle of the town. Many of the older homes in Lake Citywere built by Charles Reeder's son, Joseph.

Daniel had his land surveyed and measured out 129 lots. This plat he called Lake City and placedthe same upon the official records for the newly formed Missuakee County on October 12, 1874.

As more settlers came, the Reeder cabin became the post office for all newcomers. The mail wasbrought in from Traverse City by settlers who returned with provisions. The mail averaged onceevery two months.

A little corn and grain was raised. An old maple stump left by the Indians, the top burned out inthe shape of a bowl and a round stone served to grind grain and make corn meal. This was usedto make their break - a Johnny Cake or cornmeal. Deer and fish were a source of fresh meat.

The Reeder progeny continued to live in the Lake City area. They have helped us transform thewilderness Daniel first encountered into a bustling community.

-Mary Reeder

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Appendix F

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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICALRECORD of NORTHERN MICHIGAN

Containing Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominentand Representative Citizens,

Together with Biographies and Portraits of all thePresidents

of the United States.

CHICAGO:RECORD PUBLISHING CO.

1895______________________________________________________________________________

Washington Reeder

WASHINGTON REEDER is one of the pioneers of Missaukee County, having lived herecontinuously since 1868. When he first came to this locality the country was a wilderness, andonly two settlers had preceded him. He took up a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres fromthe Government, and set to work in earnest to clear it of the thick timber with which it wasencumbered. His property now numbers one hundred and seventy-five acres, two miles distantfrom Lake City. In politics Mr. Reeder is a Republican, but he has never been an office-seeker.Nevertheless, he has been frequently urged to serve in a public capacity, and has held the positionof Highway Commissioner. He was Street Commissioner for several years, and was the firstCounty Treasurer, afterward filling the office by appointment for two years, and then beingelected for the succeeding term.

The paternal grandfather of our subject, Moses Reeder, was a native of New York State, and ofGerman descent. A man of large physique and fine appearance, he is said to have resembledGeneral Washington, and once, when a little boy, had the privilege of offering the "Father of hisCountry" a drink of water. His life work was then farming. In his religious views he was amember of the Society of Friends, and was noted for his piety, and also for his devotion to hiscountry. He lived to the extreme old age of ninety-six years, his death occurring in Canada, at thehome of his son Emon. The gentleman last mentioned, the father of Washington Reeder, wasborn in Pennsylvania, as was also the lady whom he chose for his wife, namely, Miss ElizabethRandall. To them were born four sons and two daughters, one of whom has passed to the betterland. They are Charles, Daniel, Harriet (wife of John Potter, of this city), Washington, William,and Selina, Mrs. Charles Reeder. Mrs. Elizabeth Reeder is a daughter of Asa Randall, who wasborn in Pennsylvania, and was of German descent. He followed agricultural pursuits, and lived toa good old age, dying in Canada. Religiously he was a Quaker, and was quiet and unassuming inmanner, just and true to both friends and enemies. Emon Reeder moved to Canada with his fatherwhen seven years old, and in 1873 came to Lake City, where he made his home the remainder of

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his life, his death occurring in the fall of 1885, at the age of seventy-eight years. His wife, whosurvived him until the following June, passed away when in her eighty-first year. Like theirparents before them, they were members of the Society of Friends.

The birth of our subject occurred in Victoria County, Canada, July 4, 1841. When twenty-sevenyears of age he came to Lake City, and has since lived in this community. December 25, 1873. hemarried Wilhelmina, daughter of George and Tigris (McFarland) Locks. Four children were bornof their union, three of the number dying in infancy, the only one surviving being ClarabelleEvalyn. The mother died in 1886, in the faith of the Presbyterian Church, with which she hadlong been identified. January 4, 1888, Mr. Reeder married Emma Whitney, an own cousin of hisfirst wife. She was a member of the Congregational Church, and was a most estimable lady. Herdeath occurred March 1, 1889. November 25, 1890, Mr. Reeder married his present wife, whosemaiden name was Anna Barry. Two children have come to bless their union: Washington RandallGarbutt and Lillian May. Mrs. Reeder is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Her parents wereDavid and Clara Ann (Garbutt) Barry. The family enjoys the friendship and esteem of a largecircle of acquaintances, to whom they extend a generous hospitality.

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Appendix G

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Daniel Reeder, born in 1833 in York County, Canada, is credited with the founding of Lake City,Michigan. Following is the journal of Martin D. Reeder, son of Daniel Reeder. Mary Reeder,Martin's daughter, compiled it following her father's death in 1953. It was never formalized. Theoriginal document was received from Katherine (Frazier) Jevons (grandniece of Daniel Reeder)who in turn received it from the Research Librarian at the Missaukee County Library in 1986.The Librarian happened to be Mary DuVall, whose great grandmother was Eleanor (Reeder)Minthorn. Eleanor was Daniel's cousin.

The document was put into digital format in September 1998. I have maintained the originalstyle and grammar and have only corrected the most obvious of misspellings. Words in Italicswere hand written on the otherwise typed original document.

Wes Reeder (2nd great grandson of Daniel Reeder)

Several times I had asked my father, Martin D. Reeder, to put into writing some of thethings he remembered about early Lake City, Michigan. But he always put me off.However, shortly before his death he gave me a few notes. They were evidently writtenover a period of time, as he happened to recall things. Consequently, there is somerepetition in the notes, and sometimes the sequence does not seem logical.

The following is that part of his record which concerns Lake City. I have tried not tochange his manner of writing. Where I could not make out a word I have used a ?. Thewords in parenthesis are my own insertions in the effort to make his meaning clear.

Mary Reeder

Received 8/15/86, Lake City, MI From Mary DuVall, Librarian Her great grandmother was Eleanor Reeder Minthorn

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Early Lake CityFrom Notes Left ByMartin D. Reeder

1874 - 1953

Up in New Market, Ontario, Canada, lived a family named Reeder. XWilliam thefather of English stock and *** his wife, of Quaker descent. When they came to Canada,or where from, no records are available. They were farmers. Their children were Daniel,Charles, Washington, William, Hattie, Lina. What the general set up of this family wasare unknown or forgotten. It appears that Daniel was married and had four children,George, John, Agnes and Orilla.

Sometime about the year 1867, perhaps on account of the large family, or crowdedconditions, and the fact that the war between the states was concluded, and too for thereason that his wife had died leaving these four small children, Daniel, the elder, got theurge to seek another location, this in the states, in Michigan. Land was cheap and hewas sturdy and could hew out a new home for his family.

Probably in 1868 he came to Michigan alone, walking, as there was no other meansof travel and, crossing at what was known as Sarina, Ont., he came on west to GrandRapids, then north to Big Rapids, the furtherest northern settlement. He appeared tostay close to this point, going out from there to different points. During 1869 a party wentfishing north and also exploring for homesteads to a lake called on the Stateland plot asMuskrat in Missaukee Co. Camping on the east bank of this lake in a blinding rain theparty all,

XEamon? Wife Elizabeth Randall. Buried in old Cemetery, L.C. MI:except Dan, became discouraged and decided to return. After taking a washtub of fish,Dan, by the use of his plats and compass and taking a liking to his surroundings,located 160 acres for his homestead. Then by compass course, he traveled through thewoods to the Government Land Office at Traverse City, 65 miles away, and filed on hissection of land. At some time during the year he returned to Canada and the next year,1870, with his brother Wash, returned to the new homestead on Muskrat Lake andWash, also liking the prospect, located a ¼ section and filed on it at Traverse City.Returning to the homesteads they proceeded to perform the necessary homesteadersimprovements of clearing a small plot and erecting a small log cabin.

Returning to Canada the brothers made their preparations to return to thehomesteads with their household goods and Dan's family. There was not much to

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move, and with an ox team their journey back in the spring of 1871 was long and tediousespecially as they had to build a road the greater part of the distance north of BigRapids. When they finally arrived and got settled the brothers gave their attention toclearing their land to a point at least where they might grow enough for their sustenance.

Several trips were made to Traverse City for provisions and necessities all of whichhad to be carried on their backs through the woods and by compass route as there wereno roads or trails.

It seems that during one of these trips Dan met in Traverse City a young woman whocame from New York and was teaching school at a small hamlet called Northport on thenorth end of one of the arms of Grand Traverse Bay.

Probably during the early spring of 1872 they were married and came back toMuskrat Lake to live. Her name was Mary Quick, and her father, a minister in New YorkState.

Along about this time also William and Charles Reeder came and located and filedon land close to the other boy and later brought their families or started them on theirnew locations. Thus a settlement was formed and called Reeder perhaps for no otherreason than its being a natural conclusion of the times and places as they spring up.

All of the men were large, strong, sturdy and hard workers, knew the woods and farmsand how to handle themselves. All of the wives of these men also exercised theirhomestead right and thus 320 acres each became the holdings of each (?) family. Thegirls' husbands all, except Lina, also came. The children's father and mother (Eamonand his wife?) and finally Dan's Wife's father, brother and sister (John, Peter and SusanQuick?) All of these people and their homesteads and children made a sizeablecommunity by the lake, about 20 homesteads of 6400 acres, all timber. Of Dan's family,two children were born, a boy, Martin and a daughter, Louisa.

Martin grew as all boys beside the lake and woods, largely fishing and hunting withthe usual Boy-work. No schools but such learning as they had was from his mother untilsome time later when a log school was built and a teacher engaged. But his educationdid not seem to amount to much and while he may have absorbed something it was notworth much. While there were hardships, as all pioneers find, there were no Indians orIndian wars. No fears of this nature. Mother used to take us children when she went topick blackberries; she tied us to trees so we would not wander away and get lost. Theyhad little of the things homes needed. Being 65 miles from a supply point and no roads,everything had to be packed in on the back. They raised a little corn and grain. And oldmaple stump left by the Indians, the top burned out in the shape of a bowl, and a roundstone served to grind grain and make corn meal. This was our bread- a Johnnycake, orcornbread. We had plenty of fish and a few years after settling, deer came in and thissupplied our meat, or venison, in ample amounts.

Many hundred thousand big Canada geese came over and stopped on our lake.Dad shot many every year. One broke his wing and could not fly away. Mother took it inand splinted the injury and nursed it back. We clipped the feathers so it could not fly. Itstayed around the log cabin and whenever geese flew it would go down to the shore andcall the flocks in and they would come into the yard and hold a convention.

In late fall Father would have 12 to 15 deer dressed and hanging in the barn forwinter. Quite a lot of this was jerked, or smoked and salted, dry and hard. A chunkcarried in the pocket made a most excellent meal of lunch. Or bread and buttersandwiches in winter, toasted on a small fire in the woods with jerked venison made ameal that could not be equaled.

Some other settlers came into our county of Missaukee to the east and south. Inthose early days, few remained. XDan was born 6/23/74. To the best knowledge of thetimes he was the first white child (born) in the county. This has been disputed and therehave been claims to the contrary but, right or not, he carries this distinction.

Dad finally managed to bring a team of horses from Canada, large, heavy, young,and powerful. They had much to do with making prosperity. One died about 15 yearslater:, the other, XXTip, lived for 28 years, the pride of the county and pet of everyone.

This team with others followed and helped to clear the lands and haul produce to the

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camps.The county was largely what is considered hardwood lands with heavy stands of

maple, birch, beech, elm, basswood, and hemlock cedar swamps and tamarack. Butsurrounding was the immense cork white pine forests. Perhaps this was the inducementfor the fortunes of those days were in Pine. In fact, no moves were made to cuthardwood for hardwood would not float and could not be driven down the rivers whilepine could. Pine was soft and light and easily worked. Hardwood was not. The lightcedars were choice for shingles and posts and telephones poles, also for railroad ties.But at that time no telephones were in the north woods.

XMartin Daniel - Mart XXBob?

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Gradually the camps came in with the crews of lumber jacks. In the fall they built theircamps and prepared for winter's work. Built roads and rollways and tote roads forprovisions and supplies. The firms from the mills of Muskegon, Manistee, Ludington,and Saginaw sent in their crews.

The winters were hard, 25 to 40 below zero, 3 to 5 foot of snow or more. The workwas extremely hard. Men came in the fall and stayed all winter, going out to the town inthe spring for a short period of 30 days and then for the river drives to the saw mills.Food was ? in the early days. Potatoes, salt pork, beans, coffee, bread, syrup. The firstfriedcake I ever ate was in a camp. The camps multiplied until thousands of men werein the woods and on the drives.

The little settlement grew and was called Reeder. The county was organized and thetemporary county seat located there. More settlers coming into the east and south sidesof the county made demands for the county seat to be located at Falmouth, or as knownthen, as PinHook.

For the times it was hotly contested and the possibility of its loss to Reeder causedserious alarm. Lumbering was then beginning. As the time for the vote was placed inlate spring, Dan Reeder conceived the idea of majority voting. The county vote wascarefully canvassed and he hired over 100 lumber jacks who had come from the winter'swork to stay in his town. His agreement was to pay them $1:00 per day and board for thetime necessary to qualify as voters and to then vote for Reeder's town as the countyseat. It worked as the vote for Reeder's town made the county seat permanent and it isyet.

Daniel Reeder from the very first became the leader and financial head of the county,if there were such a thing. He held a few minor offices but always preferred not to, lettingsome other person hold the office and he to be the power behind the throne.

One morning Dad and Uncle Wash saw a deer swimming across the lake and tookafter it in a canoe. Overtaking it, they cut its throat and brought it back. Of course, theycut plenty portions for their friends.

Some disgruntled person had them arrested for taking a wild deer in open water. Butto the jury Dad maintained that it was a tame deer, not wild, and the jury could not proveit was wild.

Dad always provided hard wood maple and beech stove wood cut 16 inches long forthe town people and $1:00 a cord delivered. It was cut in the winter, dried out, hauled toour place, and piled up.

I had wanted a gun for a long time and Dad said if I would pile up the wood, about1000 cords, I could have the gun. At the then prices for guns this was ½¢ (a cord?) forpiling wood. My chum, Will Ross, helped me. When we had the job completed wereceived an old army musket, bored out, with a large hammer using hat caps, and an oldiron ram rod, gauge 12. We hunted, one carrying the gun, the other the powder andshot, and changed about.

We would, through the week, collect all the stray dogs in the town ready for theSaturday hunt. Two boys with 10 or 15 Dogs and one gun, but few dogs ever got to thewoods.

Of course we hunted small game and never got very much.On one trip to some old camps we stopped to pick blackberries for eats. I happened

to be carrying the gun, held between my legs while I picked berries. Soon somethingdrew my attention and in looking ahead saw a black bear also picking berries. He hadnot seen me.

My first impulse was to run. Then the idea (came?) that Will would brag and makefun of me. So I carefully drew the iron ram rod out and slid it down the barrel. The gunwas only loaded with fine shot. But slowly lifting it and cocking it, I got a bead on thebear and pulled the trigger. The bear went one way and I the other. Finally when I gotmy courage back we went in carefully to see the results. We never found the ram rodbut did find blood on the bushes. The ram rod went clear through the bear. We trackedhim for several miles and found him dead.

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One of the sports and quarrels of two boys under these circumstances was good.Trying to get even with the other. One way was to load the gun for the other to shoot. Alarge charge of powder and ramming the shot down so the gun would kick and make a(lame?) shoulder. I had fixed a load for Will one day, but for some reason he smelled arat and did not shoot it off. So when we got home the gun had the same load in it and itwas stood in a corner the same as usual.

Next morning it happened some ducks lit in the lake close to the house and Dad,seeing them, grabbed the first gun handy which was mine and started for the ducks. Hetook a dug out canoe and paddled as close as he could and picked up the gun and fired.It kicked him out of the boat. And when he got back------.

But he got no ducks.Those old days we did not have much variety of foods. For meat we had venison:;

sometimes a goose, duck, or partridge. In the fall it was usual to kill 10 to 15 deer, dressthem and hang them in the barn to freeze for winter use. Some were smoked for jerky. -salted and smoked hard but very pleasing to the taste and very nourishing. We carrieda piece of jerky in our pockets for lunch.

The first apple and first orange I ever saw was at Christmas time. One each year. Inever had a pair of boots or shoes till 8 years old, with red tops and copper toes and theleather hard as the Hubs of Hell.

Lake City was a one street town. Growing. Buildings largely wooden. In 1888 on thenight of July 4 the fire started and when it burned out 48 buildings and contents with thebrick Malone hotel were in ashes. No fire protection except the back woods bucketbrigade- a team of men filling pails from the lake and passing them on to the fire.

The next spring Dad made a deal with the town and was granted a franchise to builda water works plant for town needs.

He built a good plant and I had considerable to do laying mains and foundations.Thykoff (?) wood pipe, a pine log bored out for a 6 inch pipe and bound with band iron,tarred and covered with sawdust. This was 60 years ago and the mains are as good andstrong as when laid. As a boy I had much to do with this building and the operation formany years following. The plant was on Dad's home lots in the center of town and arestill there. A water tank and electric lights have since been added for the towns uses.

Missaukee Lake, which was first called Muskrat Lake, was a small, beautiful sheet ofwater. Fine, clean sand shores on at least ¾ of it, the balance a little soft but not mud.

It was full of fine fish, pickerel mostly, bass and sun fish. Early days Dad had 2000eel fingerlings planted which grew to 6 feet long. They but rarely bit a hook but wespeared them. After skinning them and stretching their hides on a thin(?) shingle to drythey made the finest kind of tough strings for harness repairs and strong ties.

We boys used to cut fat pine wood and with a basket jack in the bow of a boat we litthe wood and at night went along the shore and speared, sometimes two wash tubs fullof fine fish. Great sport and no one hurt.

Killing a deer in the water was great sport, even if it had some dangers. In earlyspring a deer's (?) is hollow and they float up better. I have killed several and even hadthem smash my canoe and had to swim ashore but tied the dead deer to the canoe andcame back for it. If you don't think a buck deer can put up a tough fight in the water, tryone once. They are fast swimmers and their hoofs can cut through almost anything.Between horns and hoofs you have some scrap.

Fishing and baling? was my best sport. Barefoot out on a peeled boom stockslippery beyond any idea--. To catc h a large fish and get him ashore was a problem andalways a wetting and a lost fish.

Running lots was another. The old White Pine days found our lake Muskrat asplendid holding ground for white pine logs. Some years the lake was so full of logs wecould cross in any direction on the logs. Sometimes we went through and had roughtimes getting out. We were splendid at birling or rolling also.

A large slide built at one corner at the mouth of the Mosquito Creek was where logswere hauled up and loaded on narrow gauge cars for the haul (?) to Clam River.

This road was owned by Cody and Moore., Larry Cody and George W. Moore with

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Nelson Ross as superintendent of woods and logging. Bill Ross was my chum. Manythe trips we made to the banking ground and dumps of logs.

Our lake was a splendid holding body for surplus water to be turned into MosquitoCreek and on down to Clam River for flooding and splashing out the drive.

One year when it was very high and held for the Big Drive it overflowed theWaterworks and put fires out from under the boiler. And Ross would not pull the floodgates. Another year when water was low and Ross needed it for splashes our Townwould not allow him to use the water and put watchmen with rifles to guard the dam.Ross came to me, a kid, and wanted to know if there should happen to be a fire if I couldblow the fire whistle good and long as I was working at the Waterworks.

Every kid loves a fire so we agreed. Then next night an old blacksmith shop wasloaded with kerosene and set on fire. It made a dandy fire and I pulled the whistle longand loud.

The men guarding the Dam about a mile and ¼ south of town heard the whistles andsaw the fire and started on a run for town. Ross had a crew of about 300 men and teamshidden close by and when the watchers left the dam his crew went in and dynamited itand dredged the banks out for a heavy splash. By morning the lake was down and thejoke was on the town. Ross got his water, his logs out of the Clam and into theMuskegon.

In the early days lumber work was a hard way of life. As a boy I got on the drive,bringing down the rear, then on the drive, and breaking rollways. Out early and in lateworking in wet, frozen clothes with poor meals and no place to dry out. No wonder mendrank whiskey to keep alive. Wages were $ 16:00 a month and board. Poor at that.Sow belly beans, molasses, sour bread. Some got $12:00.

Dad was the most forehanded and the real leader of them all. He backed up andsupported everything helpful and progressive, spent his money wisely and freely for thetown and people. The town of Lake City was built on his homestead and laid out by him.He was director of the little bank and I worked there several years. He was no Politicianbut always backed the cleanest side and spent money to buy elections like any truecitizen. Never drank liquor and quit smoking. Mother was sure a good example for himand a guide. He built the first hotel and when a saw mill came in and went busted hetook it over and ran it for the benefit of the community. He backed every man worth whileand many not so hot. He farmed. Raised prize wheat for seed, sold it at $1:00 a bushel,full heaped and running over. Clean of all foreign seeds. I know. I had to turn thefanning (?) at the mill all winter to do it.

He paid his men $1:00 a day and boarded them even when wages was 25¢ and 50¢a day. But he made them work and he set the pace. Said no man could live on lessthan a dollar a day and raise a family. His word was worth more than a bond.

He got the railroad in there and got their right-of-way. When the town voted$250,000:00 for a ? the land and the bonds were issued he went to Grand Rapids todeliver them and found the railroad would be built anyway and on a ? so he refused todeliver them. Abe Stout was with him and on conference they burned the bonds so theywould not have to deliver them. Came back home and told what he had done. He hadno bonds to bring back but people thought that was OK and he was smart. So thatended that.

I don't know what Dad was like when young but when Mother got through with him hewas a Hell of a good Christian. Built the Methodist ch urch, paid the preacher, clothedhim and his wife and family, fed them and heated their home and built them a parsonageand of course he led at revivals and always had the preacher in for meals. Mother wassome planner(?).

My first job, as I remember, was in the Missaukee Independent office, a newspaperpublished by George Stout. There I learned to set type, and distribute it, operate an oldhand press for hand bills, letter heads, etc. Then on the large Washington lever presson the weekly publication. All this was gradual. Then the building of advertisementsand a small amount of notes of interest.

The first rotary press was built in Lake City. It was a round maple log, bored out in the

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center and filled with sand. On this was the felt cover with a pipe through the center forhandles. When mounted, we would set the type, lay the paper on it and roll the rolleracross. On the next operation the roller was rolled back. This was not much of asuccess and was soon discarded and thrown out. Too many smeared pages and toocumbersome to handle. But in all it was an education. I never had any schooling.tospeak of.

Ron Barker who ran a newspaper at Reed City in those very early days came to LakeCity and started a paper. It was not much but it was a newspaper. He and his wifedecided to take a vacation. I was their printers devil. So he wrote up several weeksissues of the paper of the things he thought would happen. Run the papers off andaddressed them and tied up each weeks issue in a bundle and put in a barrel. My jobwas to take out that weeks issue and mail it.

Next came a job in the Missaukee County Bank. Was put on the books and keptthese and made up bank books. Later was on the cash counter to fill in. Finally thesafe, time locks, and combinations. All this was only more education. Bank customersalways helped to show me how and our cashier, Abe Stout, was all right. I did all thebook work and handled all the cash and Stout handled the loans and collections.

But prior to Abe was a cashier who had a pretty wife and Abe fell for her. Then herhusband died and Abe fired me and took her on in my place. Shortly after she and Abeleft over night and were not heard from for years. He was honest enough for when hewent he took only what was his right to, but he left a note to get me, Mart, who knew theinside and combinations and time lock. So I was back in the bank.

Just at that time the Republicans took the County elections from the Democrats andof course the new County Treasurer took the County money to a new bank just started.This was known and it started a run on our bank. I was alone and (the) Directors (did)not know how to work the bank. Money was being drawn out fast. It fell to me, a boy, tohandle the situation. A quick check of cash and balance showed a better than averageposition but with a run this was something. Began ordering cash from Grand Rapids in5000:00 lots and Dad rode Old Bob to Cadillac to get it off the 1:35 A M train. Cash wentfast and the last 5000:00 we had at Grand Rapids was ordered in gold. When this camein it was piled on the counter loose and this stopped the run. People had never seen somuch gold before. They took a look and left the bank. Others who had drawn out theirmoney, many of them brought it back. They all thought we had the mint behind us.

We had about 9 to 13 saloons and they all prospered. Whiskey was cheap andevery one drank more or less. Thom Dorthy (?) was one saloon keeper and Jim Sharpanother. Both tough fighters. They met on the train from Cadillac to Manton one dayand mixed. The train was stopped while they fought it out. They fought six hoursstraight and neither one licked. , but they were two broken men and never after that timecould they do anything. It is still talked of by old-timers who saw it, if there are any left. Isaw it.

These were just a few of the recollections of a kid. Many others come to mind, butthey are of no importance.

The old time lumberjack was a prince of a fellow, tough, hard, cheerful. But whenthey were drunk they were the hardest, toughest, (?) most dangerous men on earth.With cork shoes, I mean spiked, they enjoyed walking their man and most all of themhad calk marks on their faces for life. They never knew when to quit. No one gave inand all fought as long as they could stand. But when it was over they were generallygood friends. In the spring they came out for their drunks and for an outfit for the drive tothe mills. Cork shoes, heavy woolens and caps. When the drive tied up at the mills theywent back home. Walked. No roads. No money left.

Michigan was the home of white pine. Enormous quantities were cut and shipped tolake ports by schooners and barges. More was burned in forest fires than was eversawn. Many people burned out and up. None of us suffered. We always knew how tohandle them and was ready in plenty of time.

In my experience I have seen all the virgin growth of timber of the north cut andburned. Some may say this is deplorable but that is not so. For the northern timber, first

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the pines and then the hardwoods, had a use. The pines built the entire MississippiValley homes and cities and towns. The hardwood followed in furniture, factories,wagons, and farm implements. So the timber made an empire. Waste was a largefactor but it had its place in the larger picture.

So Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Canada may be proud of their contributionto the progress and building of an empire, and all of this during the period of one pioneerboy that had a large part in its progress.

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Appendix H

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MISSAUKEE REPUBLICAN, LAKE CITY, MICH., FEBRUARY 20, 1936.

Some Facts Of Missaukee County In The EarlyDays

The urge to move forward beats in every human breast. Sometimes the pathahead may be clearly marked out, but at other times it may lead throughdangerous forests, through rivers and dense fogs. Every gain that has beenmade, individually or as a group, has been made at tremendous sacrifice,sometimes of life, again of poverty, then of comforts, but nevertheless the urgeto go forward beats in every human breast just the same today as at the time ofthe early settlement of this county.

Unfortunately for the student of history, the Indians who occupied thiscounty before the coming of the white men kept no records and his historyhere is nearly all lost. In this particular section there was little contact betweenwhites and the red owners, since the latter had ceded their rights and removedfrom this county before any early settlements were made in this vicinity.

Mention is made by Alexander Blackbird in his history of the Chippewa andOttawa Indians that the Ottawas, Chippewas and the Iroquois had at some timeor other settled in this county and that a continual warfare was waged to seewho would retain possession of what was then known as the most wonderfulhunting grounds known to them. It is related that the Ottawa and Chippewanations came near going to war once over the slaying in a private feud of aChippawa by an Ottawa and the Chippawas were finally appeased by a treatypermitting them to share this greatly coveted hunting ground, that thereafterthey used it in common and found plenty of game for both; and used what isnow known as Missaukee county as their winter home. In the summer timeafter the sugar was made from the maples of Missaukee, the Indians went downthe river again, and coasted back to their summer home in the lower or upperpeninsular wherever their permanent home might have been.

The name Missaukee taken from an article entitled "History and meaning ofthe county names of Michigan" by Wm. L. Jenks of Port Huron, Mich., for theMichigan Pioneer and Historical collections Vol. 38, pp 439-478, was namedafter an Ottawa chief who signed the treaties of 1831 and 1833. The nameitself may be derived directly from a word meaning "at large mouth of river," orMississaugua an Indian tribe near the head of Georgian Bay "people of the widemouth river." Missaukee was named by the legislature of 1840 which laid outand named twenty-eight counties completing the division into counties of thelower peninsula.

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The names of sixteen of these counties were changed in 1843, but thiscounty retained it original name.

The honor of being the first white settler in this county is somewhatdisputed. Some say that the Richardsons were first, while others claim thatthe Vogels established a permanent home here first. Never-the-less, accordingto the enrollment book of the old settlers the honor of being the first whitesettlers in this county goes to the Richardson family who settled in Pioneertownship in 1867. Mr. Richardson and his family settled on section 26,township 24 north, range 7 west, near the village of Pioneer. M.D. Richardsonwas born April 10, 1846 and his wife, Sarah Richardson, was born July 29,1848. The Richardsons had two children, A.A. Richardson, who was born May29, 1873 and Miss Etta Richardson, who was born March 28, 1870. Both wereborn in Missaukee county.

The second family to settle in Missaukee county was the family of JohnVogel who settled near what is now called Vogel Center. Mr. Vogel held severalof the county offices and was considered a brave and upright citizen of thecounty.

The third family to settle in this county was Daniel Reeder, who was the firstsettler to settle in what is now Lake City.

The Reeders were of typical sturdy English Stock. The father was a bluffsquare-built Englishman and might have sat for the portrait of the typicalJohnny Bull. The mother was an Englishwoman of a different type, a quaintsweet Quaker lady whose sober dress and quiet "thees and thous" soundedoddly in the ears of the early somewhat rough speaking crowd of pioneers andwoodsmen that formed the population of this place in that day.

The Reeders had six children: Two daughters, Harriet (now Mrs. J. J. Pollardof Forest township, Missaukee county) and Selina (now Mrs. C. Reeder of Erie,Pa.) and four boys, William, Washington, Charles and Daniel.

Daniel Reeder, founder of Lake City, and one of the first three men toactually locate and take up a residence in Missaukee county was a resident ofMissaukee county since he first set foot on it. The following is a biographicalsketch of Daniel Reeder relating the circumstances pertaining to his first visitto the site of this city and was prepared from data furnished by Mr. Reederhimself (published in the Plain Dealer May 19, 1897) and facts given by hisdaughter Agnes (Mrs. Agnes Ransom of Lake City, Mich.)

Daniel Reeder was born in Newmarket, York county, Canada, June 24,1833. In 1836 the family moved to Oakwood, Victoria, Canada. On Feb. 15,1855, Mr. Reeder was married to Elizabeth Bateman and to this union fivechildren were born: Agnes (now Mrs. Agnes Ransom), Orilla (now Mrs. OrillaOstrander), George E. Reeder of Duluth, Minn., John C. Reeder of Foster,Calif., and Miss Lizzie Reeder who died June 20, 1878.

In the autumn of 1867, Mr. Reeder came to Big Rapids, Mich., and remained

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through the winter. On May 1, 1868, he and four others organized themselvesinto a company to come to Missaukee county to look for homes. They camewith a team as far as McDonald's camp on the Clam river, a mile and a halfbelow Falmouth, Mich. That was the end of the road. From there they walked,the company arriving at Muskrat lake (now known as Missaukee Lake) May 12and stayed all night on its bank. Next day, Mr. Reeder looked the adjoiningcountry over and the party returned to the team. During that night he fullydetermined to locate beside Muskrat lake. In the morning he told hiscompanions his decision, and they laughed at the idea and tried to dissuadehim, but without avail. They divided their provisions, he taking his share andtwo blankets, and prepared to start when the owner of the team said that hecouldn't see Reeder go alone, so it was arranged with the rest that the latterwere to go to Houghton Lake with the team and Reeder and his companionswould come back and look Muskrat lake country over more thoroughly. Thiswas done.

Next morning both decided to locate here on section six, and at sunrise theydeparted, Mr. Reeder going to Traverse City on the night of the May 17, 1868,Mr. Reeder, on the 18th located the north half of section six. From there hereturned to Big Rapids on foot (this being the only mode of travel at the time)and met the other four men who had just returned from Houghton Lake with ahalf a cheese box full of fish.

June 16th, the five reinforced now by William Reeder, a brother of DanielReeder, arrived back at Muskrat lake with the team and wagon. Next afternoonthey cut logs and put up a shanty of about 14x20 feet, one-story high whichwas the first building of any kind built by a white man on or near Muskrat lake(now know as Lake Missaukee). In the afternoon they looked up a location foreach of the others, but that night two of them decided to go back from wherethey came, and the next morning three of them started for Traverse City. Onreaching there, William Reeder located his land but the other two went backwithout locating any. The brothers, Daniel and William Reeder, remained hereduring the summer and in the fall returned to Canada, returning here again inOctober, accompanied by Daniel Reeder's children and his brother WashingtonReeder.

The following is a narrative of the trip from Canada to Lake City as given byDaniel Reeder's daughter Agnes (now Mrs. Agnes Ransom):

Sometime in October of 1868 my father decided to go back to Muskrat lake,so we hurriedly made preparation and left for Traverse City which was thenearest place to purchase any provisions at that time. We landed in TraverseCity on Monday and after getting a good meal and much preparation, buyingof provisions, etc., we decided to leave for the remainder of the journey Tuesdaymorning . Early Tuesday morning we left Traverse City with a little one-horsecart carrying our provisions, and the children, Uncle Washington Reeder and

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afther [sic] walking. It was an interesting trip for some but not for me, as I wasnot used to walking, and during the day my poor tender feet began to swell andby night they were swollen quite badly so we stopped at Mayfield (about 10miles southeast of Traverse City) at a Mr. Wilson's home, staying there Tuesdayevening and all day Wednesday. Thursday morning we again started out onour trip and after considerable walking we decided to camp in the wildernessThursday night. Sitting around the fire that night everyone was happythinking of their new adventure and of the new home we were going to. Fathertelling us children all about it and the wonderful lake nearby.

After traveling all day Friday, we finally arrived at Mr. Richardson's home inPioneer township late that evening where we decided to spend the evening.Saturday morning we left bright and early, the children being all excitedthinking of our new home which we expected to reach that day, and aboutnoon we arrived to it. We were very happy and I remember very vividly of theearly settlers who came to our home to get their mail. Our home being the firstpostoffice in Lake City, the mail was brought to us by the early settlers whowent to get their provisions about every two or three months.

The first Mrs. Reeder died on April 1, 1865, and Mr. Reeder was united inmarriage with Mary Quick on Feb. 29, 1872. To them two children were born,Martin D. and Louisa. Daniel Reeder remained in Lake City until his death,April 26, 1912. He was connected with several of our business enterprises andwas a successful agriculturist and business man with a tender heart and akind word for his people.

(Continued next week)

MISSAUKEE REPUBLICAN, LAKE CITY, MICH., FEBRUARY 27, 1936.

Some Facts Of Missaukee County In The EarlyDays

(Continued from last week)

One of the best sketches of pioneer times in Lake City and Missaukee countywas prepared by Mrs. Reeder and read in a paper in 1902 before the oldsettler's reunion of that year, and from the paper mentioned are collated thesalient facts comprising the county's history.

The first survey made of this end of the peninsula was made about the timethat Michigan was admitted to statehood and was under federal directionlargely for the purpose it is said of securing a more definite and accurate mapof the outline of the lower peninsula and the location of the principal streams

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and lakes. At this time, 1837, the nearest trading points at which food andother supplies might be purchased were at Rix Robinson's Post at GrandRapids or at a fur traders post on Saginaw Bay. North of here there was nowhite man nearer than Mackinac, and no settlement had yet been made onGrand Traverse Bay, but there was an Indian mission at what is now known asHarbor Springs.

The first survey of the county was made by John Brink, D. S., in May 1837,and a resurvey was made by W.L. Coffinberry about 1853 to 1856. The firstand second homesteads in the county were taken by Mr. A.B. Clark, and agentleman by the name of Laird, both of whom abandoned their claims beforefinal proofs. The third was taken by H.A. Ferris, who made final proof butnever actually resided on it, and sold it soon afterward. Mr. W. Richardson wasthe first who made a permanent home in the county. The date of his claimbeing December 27th, 1867, and William J. Morey also homesteaded his landduring the same month.

The first recorded election was held April 3, 1861. For Justice of theSupreme Court and other state offices, forty-one votes were cast, allRepublican. Of the first county election, the records in the county clerk's officetell nothing. All that can be ascertained is that sometime in the spring of 1871a special election was held at which the following officers were chosen: JohnVogel, judge of probate; Gillis McBain, sheriff; E.W. Watson, clerk and register;Ira VanMeter, treasurer; A. Stout, surveyor. The circuit judge, T.J. Ramsdell ofTraverse City, appointed L.H. Gage of Traverse City, prosecuting attorney forthis county, there being no attorney within its limits.

The county seat was located at Falmouth, a permanent site to be fixed by thevoters later. It is related by the old settlers here that in June 1873 a vote wastaken in the county as to where the county seat was to be and that both sides,the Falmouth and Reeder (now known as Lake City) organizations, brought inor imported a great many of their votes and the Reeder organization won onlyby about one vote, and a high old time was held in Reeder that night.

The first board of supervisors met at the Perley farm, about two milesnortheast of Falmouth (Pinhook) on June 6th, 1871. Those present wereWilliam J. Morey of Pioneer, James White of Quilna (now known as Caldwelland Bloomfield townships), Daniel Reeder of Reeder, John Vogel of Clam Unionand Henry VanMeter of Riverside. Mr. Reeder was elected chairman. Thesalaries of the county officers were fixed by this board as follows: Clerk, $500;treasurer, $250; prosecuting attorney, $200; judge of probate, $100, and thesheriff, $100 per year. At this session the Osceola Outline of Hersey wasdesignated as the official paper of the county. The first general election onrecord was held in November of 1872 during the Grand and Greeley campaign.There were one hundred and nineteen national ballots polled, Grant receivingone hundred and eleven and Greeley eight. On the county ticket John Vogel

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was re-elected probate judge; Otto Schaap, sheriff; M.D. Richardson, clerk andregister; B.C. Bonnell, surveyor, and Thomas T. Caldwell and Addison T.Smith, coroners.

The first birth that occurred in the county was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.John Vogel, born June 20, 1869. The second child to be born in this countywas Etta, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M.D. Richarson, and was born March 28,1870. The first male child to be born in this county was born Sept. 16, 1871,and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. and Hattie C. Caldwell. The secondmale child to be born in the county was William Wallace, born Oct. 14, 1871,and was the son of George and Minnie Wallace. The first death that occurredwas that of Albert Richardson, March 21, 1870. The first marriage was JohnCavanaugh and Miss Caroline VanMeter on March 1, 1871, and wassolemnized by the Rev. W. Richardson.

The first physician was Dr. Moorehouse of Falmouth and the residentattorney was A. C. Lewis, both later moving to California. The first road wasbuilt in the fall of 1867, from the Watson farm to Falmouth, by a Mr.McDonald, and Oscar Noble constructed the first state road through thecounty, which was called the Houghton Lake State Road.

The first logging camp in the county was built by W. Windson in 1865, onsection 34, township 21 north, range 6 west, on the bank of the Clam river twomiles below Vogel Center. The first pole logging road was built by Paul Lux,Sr., in 1877, running from section 35, township 23 north, range 7 west, to thehead of the West Branch or what is now known as the Gerish dam. It wasoperated during the spring and summer of 1878 and brought in three millionfive hundred thousand feet of logs to the West Branch.

The first railroad for running logs was built by Watson Brothers. TomSimpson also built one about the same time in 1876-7, the rails being part ofiron and part of wood. One road ran from the No. 2 farm on the Butterfield tothe main Muskegon river. The others ran to the Clam. The first passengerroad was completed in December 1885, by Mr. Cummer of Cadillac. In thespring of 1890 the Missaukee branch of the Grand Rapids & Indiana wasextended to Lake City.

The first saw and shingle mill in the county was built by Pearly, Palmer &Company in the winter of 1871-2. The first grist mill was erected at Falmouth.The first hotel was also built at Falmouth in 1871 and was managed by JohnCavanaugh. The first deer, bear or wolf killed by a white man in this countywas killed by a man by the name of Hicks in 1866.

A temporary court house was built at Falmouth in 1871. In 1873 a courthouse and jail were built at Lake City and in 1883, a new court house waserected at a cost of $10,000. The new jail was erected in 1886 at a cost ofsomething over $7,000.

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south of the house now owned by William J. Morey. Since then it has beenheld on grounds purchased by the society.

The first postoffice was at the home of Daniel Reeder at Reeder (now knownas Lake City) in the spring of 1872. Mail used to be brought to the settlers inthe county by those who made long trips for provisions, and the settlers camefor their mail when the trains returned. The mail averaged perhaps one everytwo months. The postoffice was first called Reeder and later changed to LakeCity, and the village was platted under that name and incorporated in 1887 asa village with Arlington C. Lewis as the first president.

The first store was built by John Koopman in October 1869, it being a loghouse residence and store combined. In 1879 Mr. Koopman built a store atFalmouth.

All of the lumber towns were filled with hotels and saloons those days toaccommodate the jolly rough lumber jacks. The little town of Lake City oncesupported fifteen saloons at one time. Some of these places were filled with funand good times but often the fun grew too boisterous and proved disastrous.

With the coming of the county seat, Lake City began to prosper. What isnow known as Main street was at one time lined on both sides with hotels,tailor shops, restaurants, grocery stores, bakeries, saloons and all otherbuildings that are necessary for a growing town.

The railroad was a narrow gauge and at first came only to the shore ofMuskrat lake at Komoka and the freight was carried across by boat in thesummer and by sleighs in the winter, but finally the railroad was built onaround the lake and the depot was sited somewhere in the back of Buck's store(Buck's store was situated where the Model Bakery now stands).

At one time the shore of Lake Missaukee was lined with mills and the townsupported a handle factory, a shingle factory and other mills. Some of the millowners were the Sands', Kellys', Clark's, Inverson, Arbuckle and the Reedermill.

In history, as well as in fiction, everything does not run smooth, andMissaukee county had several small fires to destroy some of their historicbuildings. The largest fire in the old times was the fire of July 4th, 1888,which passed off pleasantly in the village of Lake City, and the dance was stillgoing on at Buckley's hall when the cry of "fire" was raised. It originated in thepump room in M. Vanarsdale's saloon building and was believed to be ofincendiary origin. The outside door of this room was fastened open with astake driven in the ground and the first arrivals report the stake pulled up andthe door fastened shut. The first alarm was given by Mrs. A. Stout, whodiscovered it from her bedroom window. The nightwatch was at the dancetaking it easy. The fire spread rapidly north, east and south and G.W. Wood'shardware store was the only building left on the block in which most of thebusiness of the town was done.

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The following is a list of the buildings burned at that time: George W.Woods, hardware building, etc.; Mrs. S.A. Philip, small building; MissaukeeCounty Bank, building; Fisher Drug Store, building; S.M. Ardis Dry GoodsStore; M. Vanarsdale, saloon building; E. Des Voignes, store building; Will J.Roche's Drug Store; Wm. A. Minthorn's two-story building; Gaffney & Owens'one-story building; J.K. Seafuse's two-story building; Washington Reeder'sbuilding; George Morrison's two-story building; A. Stout's residence and barn;M. Vanarsdal's residence; Long & Whiteford's two-story building and Mrs.Hattie Caldwell's residence.

Besides the above enumerated losses there were many small losses andnearly all of the boarders at the General Hotel lost some clothing, etc.

Although some of our nearby counties have lost a good share of their loggingdays population, it is not so with Missaukee county. The total population ofMissaukee county according to the 1920 census was 9,004. Approximatelyhalf of the population is of Holland Dutch descent, and settled in theneighborhood of the villages of Lucas, McBain, Falmouth, Moddersville andArlene, while in and around the villages of Lake City, Pioneer, Morey andMerritt the population are mostly of English and Irish descendants with aboutone dozen families of Finlanders. Missaukee county has but two families ofcolored people and approximately five families of Indians, one of which is adirect descendant of Chief Pontiac of the Pottowattomie tribe. The DetroitTimes a short time ago devoted a full page to feature the description and life ofthis great Indian. Most of our Indian tribe is living in the southeast section ofthe county and many of their noble characteristics are gone due to theirmingling with the white race.

Moreover the love of trees, shrubs and flowers possessed by the pioneers hasbeen passed on to the people of each succeeding period and the hundreds ofbeautiful homes in our county are surrounded by well kept lawns and trees, aswell as beautiful shrubbery, shade and the street in front of most cases eithergravelled or paved. Visitors often remark that our little villages are very clean.It has been the habit of our county for the past years to see that allobjectionable sights were removed and that homes, lawns, farms, etc., werekept as clean as possible and the people here pride themselves in having somevery fine homes and surroundings for a county of its size. In Missaukeecounty we not only have several motorized fire departments, but it has been acustom for years that in case of fire each and every individual goes to the sceneof the fire and help put it out in the best manner possible, and Missaukeecounty has had but two major fires since its organization in 1869.

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Appendix I

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HISTORY OF

SAN BERNARDINOAND

RIVERSIDE COUNTIESBY

JOHN BROWN, Jr.Editor for San Bernardino County

AND

JAMES BOYDEditor for Riverside County

WITH

Selected Biography of Actors and WitnessesOf the Period of Growth

And Achievement

VOLUME III

THE WESTERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION1922

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[Pages 1293-1295]

J. C. Reeder. The career of J. C. Reeder, one of the well known andsubstantial citizens of the Ontario District, has not been a steady anduninterrupted climb toward prosperity. Two of his early California ventureswere complete failures. He returned to his task after seeing his savingsdissipated, and this faculty of never giving up in defeat and his hopefulenterprise have largely determined the successful position he now enjoys.

Mr. Reeder was born at Lindsay, Canada, September 18, 1862. When hewas two years old his mother died, and three years later his father, DanielReeder, moved to Michigan and settled in the northern woods, in what is nowMissaukee County, sixty-five miles from the nearest settlement, Traverse Citybeing the nearest town. He homesteaded land there. Daniel Reeder was forseveral years the only man of any education in the entire county. With theincrease of population he mortgaged his farm in order to secure money toestablish the county seat at his own town, Lake City, and he realized thisambition.

It was such a country, of great woods, without any of the institutions ofrefinement, neither schools nor churches, that J.C. Reeder spent his boyhood.Altogether he attended public school only three months, and only by his ownefforts in later years did he secure the equivalent of an ordinary education. Hehas been making his own way since he was thirteen. At seventeen he left homealtogther. His early life was spent in a lumber town, where there were thirteensaloons and a brawl or fight almost always on the program. He workedalongside rough lumber jacks in the timber and lumber camps and on theriver, and it is a tribute to his independent character that in spite of thisenvironment he never used tobacco or intoxicating liquors. While still a boy hewas employed on a lumber boom, and in six weeks his pay was raised to thesame as that given to men two years in the service. It was the custom to gaugethe rate of pay according to length of experience. From this work he returnedto Lake City with a hundred dollars saved, and borrowing twenty-five dollarsmore and taking in a partner he established a drug store. Nine months laterhe sold his interest to his partner, netting a big profit.

After some other experiences Mr. Reeder went to Washington and for threeyears was in logging camps of the Northwest. While in Washington he

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contracted the purchase of ten acres in the Barton District of Redlands,California. It was a tract of unimproved land, but the purchase agreement wasthat it would be set to oranges and developed while he was making thepayments. In 1891 he came down to Redlands to investigate, and found thateverything he had put into the investment had gone for naught. Thus relievedof the embarrassment of accumulating riches and left with only fifty dollars, hewent to work in the old Terricina Hotel, and six months later found himself thepossessor of five hundred dollars. His next employment was with anengineering party in Bear Valley under Mr. Sargent, engaged in the MorenoSurvey. By 1894 Mr. Reeder had nine hundred dollars, and this he invested ina small ranch property in San Diego County. Here again conditions were allagainst him, and after five years of struggle he left and went to Lakeside, forty-five dollars in debt. At Lakeside he worked with a surveying party, used histeam for contract work and also operated steam pumps, supplying the city ofSan Diego with water. At the end of two years he had sixteen hundred dollarsin the bank.

With this little fortune he established himself permanently in the field wherehe is located today. In January, 1901, he bought his present homestead, threemiles west of Euclid Avenue in Ontario. He paid four hundred seventy-fivedollars for five acres of wild land on Holt Avenue, set it to oranges, built ahome, and instituted other improvements. He then contracted to buy anadjoining five acres for eight hundred dollars, paying only forty dollars down.By borrowing and from his savings he paid out, and his ten acres, nowcompletely developed as an orange grove, would conservatively be valued atthirty-five thousand dollars. Altogether Mr. Reeder now owns ninety-five acresof improved land, chiefly in oranges and deciduous orchards. He is astockholder to the extent of seven thousand dollars in the San Antonio PackingCompany and holds stock in a number of other organizations. In twenty yearshe has accumulated a very substantial competency, due to his energetic laborsand the wisdom with which he has estimated present and future conditions.

For the past sixteen years Mr. Reeder has served as district road boss. Hehas been a life long republican and a man of scrupulous integrity in all histransactions. He is one of the most thoroughly practical horticulturists in thissection.

In the spring of 1894 he married Miss Lulu B. Sharp, a native of Missouri,who came to Pomona, California, in 1891. Mr. and Mrs. Reeder can certainlybe pardoned a justifiable pride in their splendid family of seven boys, from theoldest to the youngest perfect specimens of physical strength and well being,and all of them athletically inclined, the older ones having many distinctions

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in school athletics.

The oldest, Paul H. Reeder, born September 1, 1895, at San Diego,graduated from the Chaffey Union High School and at the time of the Worldwar he enlisted in the Field Hospital Corps and for almost two years was inFrance. He was in the first unit to cross the line after the armistice was signed.He was prominent in the athletic and field contests of the army in France, andthe day before his return he won five of the events in a great field day of athleticsports. He is a thirty-second degree Mason. Paul Reeder married Miss AgnesBaker, of Pomona, and they have one daughter, Pauline Agnes Reeder, bornJuly 27, 1921.

The second son, Arthur J. Reeder, born November 12, 1896, at San Diego,also graduated from the Chaffey Union High School and he broke all theathletic records of that school and gained a state-wide reputation as a footballplayer and in other sports. He volunteered and went into Field Hospital Corpsin the same unit with his brother, and they were together all through theservice. After his return he went to Arizona and proved up a homestead ofagricultural land. He is a member of the Masonic Order.

The third son, Donald D. Reeder, born September 18, 1899, at San Diego,graduated from Chaffey High School, also made his mark in athletics and wasa volunteer for the war service and ready to go when the armistice was signed.Later he took over management of the Avis Hotel Café, Pomona. In 1921 hemarried Miss Ruth Cooper, of Upland, California.

The younger sons are L. DeWitt Reeder, born at Ontario August 4, 1901, agraduate of the Chaffey High School and now a student in Pomona College;George born at Ontario December 30, 1905; Teddy Lewis, born at OntarioOctober 4, 1907, and Stanley, born June 4, 1909.

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Following is a letter from James G. Reeder written in 1933 to Orilla (Reeder) Ostrander. Jameswas the grandson of Job Reeder, Job was the brother of Moses Reeder and Orilla was thedaughter of Daniel Reeder. Orilla married Charles L. Ostrander in 1875. Charles had diedseveral months before the date of the letter. Orilla died in 1942.

The original letter was retyped in the early 1960's, probably by Mary Emily Reeder and sent toLawson DeWitt Reeder.

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REEDER AND REEDER(James G. Reeder George S. Reeder)

Attorneys at LawColumbus, Nebraska

September 7, 1933

Mrs. Charles L. OstranderLake CityMichigan

Dear Mrs. Ostrander:

I was very agreeably surprised and pleased to receive yourletter of the 5th inst. I had never known very much about theLake City Reeders, except that they migrated from Canada toLake City years ago. But at the time when they lived inCanada, I do not recall the name of the place, my father, whowas Samuel G. Reeder of Edinboro, Pa., visited them frequentlyand your grandfather, Eamon Reeder, and his delightful Quakerwife visited at my father's house one summer. While I was asmall boy, I recall your grandmother with her quaint Quakergarb and how she used "thee" and "thou". She must have been awoman with a fine education. She possessed the most wonderfulknowledge of folk lore and fairy tales with which sheentertained the children. Your grandfather, Eamon Reeder, wasa very strong and sturdy man. He must have been a farmer byoccupation, because I recall he knew so much about operating afarm. My father, I think, visited at his house in Canada, andone of my brothers who died in infancy was named Eamon Reeder,after him.

You also had an aunt by the name of "Selina", whom we alwayscalled "Lina". She also visited at our house and eventuallymarried a second cousin of hers by the name of Charles Reeder.This marriage, I think, was a run-a-way marriage. She and herhusband came to Pennsylvania and lived there all their lives.Charles Reeder died some 12 or 15 years ago in Erie, Pa., andLina Reeder died in Richmond, Va. some 3 or 4 years ago. Mymother was very fond of Lina. I might add all our family werelikewise fond of her. She had an only son living in Richmondin the newspaper business and she went there to spend her lastdays. My sister who was younger than she accompanied her fromErie to Richmond, as she was very old at that time. I mightadd that Lina and her husband Charles visited us here afterthey had spent a winter in San Diego, California, but as mywife and children had likewise spent that winter in San Diego,they had become acquainted. We enjoyed having them with usvery much.

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Coming back to the early Reeders, I do not know the name ofEamon Reeder's father, but the history of that migration toCanada developed in this way: There were three brothers,including the two who originally went to Canada, probablybetween 1780 and 1790. One brother, my grandfather, JobReeder was a surveyor and helped survey Erie and Crawfordcounties, Pa. The other two brothers maintainedcommunications with him during all of their residence inCanada. During the War of 1812 the two Reeder brothers inCanada had joined an insurrection against the Englishgovernment and were compelled to flee the country. They cameto my grandfather's house in Erie, Pa., and remained forsomething over a year. They assisted Commodore Perry in thebuilding of his fleet. They also did some service under MadAnthony Wayne. They were eventually pardoned by the Englishgovernment and returned to Canada.

After that time I recall that a number of the secondgeneration of the young Reeders visited in Edinboro. Amongothers there were Samuel T. Reeder, Washington Reeder, Walter(?) Reeder and some others whose names I do not recall.Samuel T. Reeder was always known in and about Edinboro as"Canada Sam" to distinguish him from my father who was plainSamuel Reeder. "Canada Sam" visited me here perhaps 33 or 34years ago. There was also another member of that family,Charles Y. Reeder by name. He stayed at my father's house theyear that I was born (1858) and from there went West to St.Joseph, Mo., where he engaged in the freighting business andlikewise in carrying mail through the west. He eventuallyengaged in mining to some extent and accumulated quite afortune. But he and his wife separated some time about 1890and she and their daughter moved to Florida, while he took hismoney and went to Johannesburg, South Africa and engaged inrailroad building and other work of that kind. For many yearsI had been receiving a newspaper from Johannesburg, and on theinside of the papers would be from "C.Y.R." I did not knowwhom these papers came from, but along about 1898 he came tomy office in this city and announced that he was "C.Y.R." Ofcourse, it did not mean anything to me and I had to have anexplanation. He was just returning from Johannesburg and hestayed at our house about one month. He was the mostdelightful and entertaining gentleman I had ever met. He tookmy wife and children riding everyday and entertained themevery evening with tales of South Africa. He returned toAfrica shortly after that and visited twice later on. Hisventures were not all a success financially. The last time Isaw him was in St. Louis at the time of the Exposition.

I think all of the Erie County, Pa., Reeders are gone,except one who is a second cousin of mine; also my sister

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still lives in Erie. I have been away from my father's homemost of the time since I was 16 years old and finally studiedlaw in Memphis, Tenn., where I was admitted to the Bar. ThenI came to Hutchinson, Kansas and remained for only six months.I came to Columbus, fifty-one years ago. I was married in SanDiego, California in 1887. But there are plenty of Reeders inthe States. There is a firm of lawyers in Amarillo, Texas, bythe name of "Reeder and Reeder". There was in the earlynineties a lawyer by the name of Reeder in Houston, Texas.There are some in Chattanooga, Tenn., but they all came fromthe original Pennsylvania stock, which I have always beentold, came to Pennsylvania with William Penn. Charles Y.Reeder found a firm of lawyers by the name of "Reeder andReeder" practicing law in Johannesburg, South Africa and wehad always supposed up to that time that our ancestors camefrom England, but the Johannesburg Reeders claim that theirancestor came from Holland to South Africa and that we are allof Holland Dutch stock.

I am 75 years old. I am the only one of the Reeder familyin this particular section. I am very glad indeed that youwrote me and hope that the information I have given you may beof some assistance to you and would be glad to hear from youagain.

Very truly yours,J G Reeder

P.S. My grandfather and Eamon Reeder's father and hisbrother ran away from home at Williamsport, Pa. because theirfather was dead and their mother had married again and theydisapproved of their stepfather. They never wrote theirmother after that. My vision is poor, but I am hoping toobtain glasses soon.

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Index of Individuals

AAdams, Mary: 35Allen, James Greene: 34Alter, Helen Venona: 24Appleton, Elizabeth: 26Appleton, Thomas: 26Ardis, Charles R.: 23Ardis, Charlotte Ann: 23Ardis, Dorman William: 23Ardis, Dorothy Alberta: 23Ardis, Elton Boyd: 23Ardis, Lysle R.: 23Ardis, William: 23Ardis, William J.: 23Ardis, William Reeder: 23

BBaker, Agnes Marie: 24Baker, Elizabeth: 15Barker, Elizabeth: 19Barry, David: 19Barry, Sabra Anna: 19Bateman, Barbara Ann: 30Bateman, David: 30Bateman, Elizabeth: 5, 18, 30, 33Bateman, Francis: 30Bateman, Francis: 30Bateman, George: 18, 30, 31Bateman, George Arthur: 30Bateman, Hannah: 30Bateman, John: 30, 31Bateman, John Merrick: 30Bateman, Lydia Jane: 30Bateman, Mary: 30Bateman, Mary Ann: 30Bateman, Rachael: 30Bateman, William: 30, 31Bateman, William: 30Bateman, William: 30Boggs, James: 23Bolinger, Barbara: 33-35Booker, Mary Marquis: 24Bowman, Barbara: 34, 35Broadwater, Wilma Helen: 24Brooks, Elizabeth: 15Brophey, William Harold: 27Bruce, Unknown: 23Butcher, Charles: 30Butcher, Joseph: 34

CCain, Agnes: 34, 35Cardin, Jane: 35

Carlson, Ann: 25Chandler, William Blaine: 23Chick, Charles Percy: 25Chick, Harry Nesbit: 25Chick, Richard Armand: 25Chick, Ruth L.: 25Chick, Thomas Myrl: 25Collins, Elijah: 28, 29Collins, Martha: 28Collins, Mary: 15, 28, 29Collins, Sarah: 28Collins, Sarah: 29Comly, Agnes: 28, 29Comly, Henry: 29Comly, Henry: 29Comly, Robert: 29Conant, Mariah: 26Conner, Charles: 31Cook, Polly: 20Cooper, Maybelle Ruth: 24Creech, Mary Helen: 22Creech, Thomas: 22

DDeGeer, Hannah: 14DeGeer, James: 15Demaranville, Emily: 24Dickson, Lavina: 22Dillman, Elin: 14Dobson, Ella: 17Dobson, Frances Lillie: 17Dobson, John: 17Dobson, Mary Ann: 17Dobson, William: 17Dobson, William: 17Doremus, Addie: 22Doughty, Eleanor: 30Drake, Benjamin: 34Ducatt, Lillian A: 16Dulyea, Maggie: 16Durr, Earl Russel: 27Durr, Francis Edgar Thorton: 27Durr, John Edward: 27Durr, John Francis: 27

EElizabeth, Catherine: 34-36England, Laura Ethel: 26England, Matthew: 26Evans, Ethel: 18

FFair, John: 34

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Fair, Thomas J.: 34Farrington, Unknown: 21Finkbeiner, Lorne Ruben: 26Finley, William H.: 33Floodquist, Alice Margaret: 25Frazier, Herman: 25Frazier, Kathleen: 25Frazier, Robert Edward: 25Frost, Mary: 33Fuller, Elizabeth: 17

GGarbutt, Clara Ann: 19Geromette, Unknown: 27Gibson, Daniel Crispen: 26Gibson, Opale R.: 26Gibson, Perry Aurora: 26Givens, Sarah Susannah: 35Gormley, Sarah: 26Gormley, Unknown: 23Green, Deacon Alfred: 17Green, Mary L.: 17Griffin, Donald C.: 26Gullic, Anna Belle: 33

HHanon, Susan: 34Harkins, Beatrice: 23Harmon, Thomas: 35Harness, John L.: 33Harrington, Linda Carroll: 24Harrison, Hazel Margaret: 24Heaton, Agnes: 29Henderson, Wesley: 34Hendy, Harold Robert: 22Herrington, Dell: 15Hollingshead, John: 28Hollingsworth, Virginia: 23Horner, Edith Emma: 26, 27Horner, William: 26Houlden, Matilda: 27Hunter, Barbara: 33-35Hunter, Henry: 33-35Hunter, John: 34, 35Hurt, Gabriel: 34

JJacobs, Ralph: 25Jevons, Lyle Owen: 25Johnston, Isaac: 20Johnston, Sarah: 20

KKennedy, Hugh: 18Kent, Anna Mae: 26Kirk, William: 34, 35

Kirk, Winfred: 33-35Knoll, Albert: 16Knowlton, Jane: 16Kolar, Frank: 25

LLamport, James: 15Larkin, Sara Olivia: 27Larson, Inga Louise: 23Lawson, Charlotte A.: 27Lawson, Joseph W.: 20Lett, Sarah Jaine: 22Lincoln, Deborah: 32Lincoln, Hannah: 32Lincoln, John: 32Lincoln, Mary: 31, 32Lincoln, Mordecai: 32Lincoln, Mordecai: 32Lincoln, Sarah: 32Linn, Margaret: 25Loucks, George: 18Loucks, Wihelmina: 18, 19Louks, B.: 18Loy, Anna Marie: 35, 36Lucas, Herman: 23Lundy, John: 14Lundy, Sarah: 14Lundy, William: 28Luther, Gertrude: 20Lux, Wilhelmina: 23

MMara, Elizabeth Janet: 30Mawson, Alice E.: 26Mawson, Eli: 19Mawson, Elizabeth: 19Mawson, Elizabeth: 26Mawson, Jane: 20Mawson, Jane: 19Mawson, John: 19Mawson, John Moreland: 19Mawson, Maria: 19Mawson, Mary: 19Mawson, Moreland: 19Mawson, Moses: 19Mawson, Moses: 19, 26Mawson, Sarah: 19Mawson, Susannah: 19, 26Mawson, Wilbert: 26McCabe, Clara Agnes: 27McCloud, Donald: 23McCurdy, Daniel Cooper: 27McFarland, Tigris: 18Meldrew, Margaret: 23Merrick, John: 31Middleton, Joseph: 23Millard, Ann: 30, 31

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Millard, Susannah: 28Mills, Preston: 33Minnis, Martha A: 34Minthorn, Alonzo: 16Minthorn, Cosford: 16Minthorn, Della Mae: 21Minthorn, Eliza: 16Minthorn, Elmer James: 21Minthorn, Harriet: 21Minthorn, Hazel Gertrude: 21Minthorn, James: 16Minthorn, Jas Howard: 21Minthorn, John: 16Minthorn, John: 16Minthorn, Mancheski: 16Minthorn, Mary: 16Minthorn, Norman: 16, 21Minthorn, Samuel: 16Minthorn, Samuel: 21Minthorn, Sarah: 16Minthorn, William Alvy: 16, 21Minthorn, William Clair: 21Montgomery, Joseph: 33Moreland, Catherine: 5, 14, 28Morgan, Margaret: 30Moshier, Harriet: 21Mullany, Anna: 22Munroe, Archibald: 27Munroe, Mary Annie: 27

NNellis, Sarah Adalaide: 22Nichols, Margaret: 20Nichols, William: 20Norman, George: 30, 31Norman, Lydia: 30, 31

OOstrander, Bert M.: 24Ostrander, C.D.: 24Ostrander, Charles L.: 23, 24Ostrander, Viola C.: 24

PParrish, Edgar Lewis: 33Pedersen, Dorthea Antonio: 21Penrose, Charles: 31Penrose, David: 31Penrose, Elizabeth: 28Penrose, Isaac: 31, 32Penrose, Isaac , Jr.: 31Penrose, Jane: 18, 30, 31Penrose, Jesse: 32Penrose, Joseph: 31Penrose, Joseph: 31Penrose, Margaret: 32Penrose, Martha: 32

Penrose, Mary: 31Penrose, Mary Ann: 31Penrose, Peter: 31Penrose, Rachel: 31Penrose, Richard: 31Penrose, Thomas Yarnell: 30-32Pettengill, Raymond: 25Phinney, Mary: 28, 29Pickering, Sarah Hanna: 26Pirrung, Augusta Wilhelmina: 23Pirrung, Unknown: 23Playter, Harriet: 31Playter, Priscilla Nancy: 21Playter, Sarah Ann: 17Playter, Watson Waterman: 17, 21Pollard, Donald: 25Pollard, Frank: 25Pollard, John J.: 18Pollard, June: 25Pollard, Kenneth Randall: 25Pollard, Lillian: 18Pollard, Manley: 25Pollard, Percy: 25Pollard, Robert: 25Pollard, William S.: 18, 25Powell, John Clark: 33

QQuick, John J.: 18Quick, Mary Amelia: 18

RRader, Pauline Mae: 24Randall, Agnes: 28Randall, Agness: 28Randall, Asa: 15, 28, 29Randall, Comely: 28Randall, Comly: 28, 29Randall, Edward: 28Randall, Edward: 28Randall, Elizabeth: 28Randall, Elizabeth: 5, 15, 28, 30Randall, Jonathan: 28Randall, Jonathon: 28Randall, Joseph: 28Randall, Joseph: 28Randall, Mary: 28Randall, Nicholas: 28, 29Randall, Phebe: 28Randall, Rachel: 28Randall, William: 28Ransom, Charles Albert: 23Ransom, Ida May: 23Ransom, John D.: 23Ransom, Mae: 23Ransom, Maude Ethel: 23Rathburn, Eleanor: 21

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Rathburn, Glenn R.: 21Rathburn, Glennia: 21Rathburn, Maxine: 21Reader, Rebecca: 30Reardon, John: 25Redfern, Clarinda: 34Redfern, Emeline: 34Reeder, Agnes: 5, 18, 23Reeder, Alberta: 22Reeder, Alexander: 15, 20Reeder, Alexander: 20Reeder, Alice: 19, 26Reeder, Almira: 19Reeder, Arthur John: 5, 24Reeder, Charles: 14-27Reeder, Charles: 5, 15, 17, 22, 23Reeder, Charles: 21Reeder, Charles Franklin: 17Reeder, Charles Jasper: 19Reeder, Charles T.: 19Reeder, Charles Y.: 14Reeder, Charlotte Estella: 18, 23Reeder, Clara Munroe: 27Reeder, Claribell Evalyn: 19, 25Reeder, Dan Martin: 25Reeder, Daniel: 5, 15, 18, 23, 24, 30, 33Reeder, Don Daniel: 5, 24Reeder, Dorothy Dee: 25Reeder, Eamon: 5, 14, 15, 17-19, 22-26, 28, 30Reeder, Edwin G.: 19Reeder, Eileen Adelaide: 22Reeder, Eleanor: 5, 14Reeder, Eleanor Margaret: 14, 16, 21Reeder, Elizabeth: 5, 14Reeder, Elizabeth: 14, 16, 21, 22Reeder, Elizabeth (aka: Lizzie Reeder): 5, 18Reeder, Elizabeth Ann: 17Reeder, Elsie Ethel: 27Reeder, Emon Everett: 17Reeder, Emon T.: 15Reeder, Francis: 20, 27Reeder, Frank: 17Reeder, Fred Howard: 17, 22Reeder, Fred Russel: 22Reeder, Frederick T.: 21Reeder, Garfield: 19Reeder, George: 15Reeder, George Clifford: 5, 24Reeder, George Elmer: 27Reeder, George Emon: 5, 18, 23Reeder, Guy Hamilton: 19Reeder, Harriet: 5, 15, 18, 25Reeder, Helen: 26Reeder, Henrietta Mabel: 23Reeder, Ida Louise: 25Reeder, Isaac: 14-27Reeder, James: 21Reeder, Jane Elizabeth: 15, 19, 26

Reeder, Japheth: 21Reeder, Jeanetta: 20Reeder, Job: 19Reeder, Job: 15Reeder, John: 14-27Reeder, John: 15, 20, 27Reeder, John: 20Reeder, John: 27Reeder, John Cumley: 5, 18, 24, 33Reeder, John Watson: 17Reeder, John Wesley: 20Reeder, Joseph: 14-27Reeder, Joseph: 14-27Reeder, Joseph: 21Reeder, Joseph Witney: 17, 22Reeder, Lawson DeWitt: 5, 24Reeder, Lewis Theodore: 5, 24Reeder, Lillian May: 19, 25Reeder, Lina: 27Reeder, Lizzie (name: Elizabeth Reeder): 5, 18Reeder, Maria: 15Reeder, Marion: 16, 21Reeder, Marshall Edgar: 17Reeder, Martin Daniel: 18, 24Reeder, Mary Emily: 25Reeder, Mary Louisa: 18Reeder, Moreland: 5, 14, 15, 19, 20, 26, 27Reeder, Morton Christian: 23Reeder, Moses: 15Reeder, Moses: 5, 14-28Reeder, Moses: 15, 20, 27Reeder, Moses: 20, 27Reeder, Moses , Jr.: 5, 14, 15, 17Reeder, Nancy Elizabeth: 25Reeder, Orilla Jane: 5, 18, 23, 24Reeder, Paul Hugh: 5, 24Reeder, Prentice A.: 17Reeder, Roy Webster: 18Reeder, Salina: 20Reeder, Sally Louise: 17Reeder, Samuel T.: 14, 17Reeder, Sarah Ann: 15, 17Reeder, Sarah Maria Emma: 21, 27Reeder, Selina: 5, 15, 19, 26Reeder, Stanley: 5, 24Reeder, Susanna: 15, 19, 20, 26Reeder, Susanna: 20Reeder, Susannah: 5, 14Reeder, Texie E.: 17Reeder, Unknown: 22Reeder, Vera E.: 20Reeder, Washington: 5, 15, 18, 19, 25Reeder, Washington Leslie: 17Reeder, Washington Randall Garbutt: 19, 25, 26Reeder, Wayne R.: 26Reeder, William: 5, 14, 16, 17, 21, 22Reeder, William: 5, 15Reeder, William: 20

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Reeder, William: 20Reeder, William Everett: 16Reeder, William J.A.: 14, 16, 21Reeder, William Lincoln: 17, 22Reynolds, Ella: 22Rix, James: 16Rose, Sylvia Ann: 31Rowe, Joseph Henry: 21

SSalter, Hannah: 32Scott, Jane: 19Sharp, Aaron: 36Sharp, Barbara: 34Sharp, Clara Alice: 33Sharp, Elizabeth: 33Sharp, Emma: 33Sharp, George: 34-36Sharp, George Riley: 34Sharp, Henry Hunter: 34Sharp, John: 33-35Sharp, John: 34Sharp, John George: 35, 36Sharp, Laura Ann: 33Sharp, Lawson: 24, 33, 34Sharp, Lloyd W.: 33Sharp, Louisa: 34Sharp, Lulu Belle: 5, 24, 33Sharp, Mary Ella: 33Sharp, Norah: 33Sharp, Polly: 34Sharp, Robert Wood: 33Sharp, William H.: 33-35Sharp, William Newton: 34Sharp, Winifred: 34Sherwood, Lucindy: 16Shotwell, Elizabeth: 31, 32Silver, Myron H. D.: 30Slade, Alice: 25Smith, Catherine: 21Smith, Marie E.: 25Snodgrass, Isaac: 35Stonehouse, Mary Ann: 21

TTaylor, David: 31, 32Taylor, Mary: 30-32Teel, Francis: 15Teel, Sarah: 15Teets, Alfred: 16Teets, Charles G.: 16Teets, Daniel: 22Teets, Elwood: 16, 22Teets, George Nelson: 16, 21, 22Teets, Henryette: 16Teets, James: 16Teets, Joseph: 22

Teets, Louisa: 16Teets, Mary Ann: 16Teets, Nelson: 16Teets, William: 16Teets, William G.: 16Thompson, Jane Elizabeth: 25Toole, Elizabeth: 14Toole, Elizabeth: 14, 15Toole, John: 14Tucker, David: 24Tucker, John: 34Tunison, Deborah L.: 18Turner, Elizabeth: 20Tyler, Joan: 29

UUnknown, Dorothy: 17Unknown, Mary: 35, 36Updike, Ida: 24Updike, William: 24

VVarnum, Nancy: 30

WWalker, Esther: 34, 35Walker, George: 35Walker, Henry: 35Walker, Henry: 35, 36Walker, James: 35Walker, John H.: 35Walker, Mary: 35Walker, Nancy: 35Walker, Sarah: 35Walker, William: 35, 36Walker, William , Jr.: 35Ward, Blanche I.: 22Wasley, Huldah: 28Webster, Mary Ann: 17Webster, Rachel: 28, 29Werner, Marie: 23White, William Howard: 18Whitney, Emma J.: 18Widdifield, Henry: 28Widdifield, Joseph: 28Willis, Cornelius: 16Willis, Lavina: 16Wilson, Elizabeth: 34Wilson, Patsey Martha: 33-35Wilson, Thomas: 34, 35Wood, Abraham: 33-35Wood, Abraham Wilson: 34Wood, Betsey Ann: 34Wood, Clarinda Walker: 34Wood, Julia Ann: 34Wood, Mary Phillips: 24, 33, 34Wood, Minerva Isabelle: 34

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Wood, Rebecca Frances: 34Wood, Susan Emiline: 34

YYarnell, Francis: 31, 32Yarnell, Peter: 32Yarnell, Rachael: 31, 32Young, Elsie Edith: 27Young, Ida Alice: 27Young, James: 20Young, James E. Wilbert: 20, 26, 27Young, John: 20Young, John Moreland: 20Young, Lloyd Laverne: 27Young, Mary Jane: 20Young, Raymond Wilbert: 27Young, Sarah Ann: 20, 26Young, Sophia E.: 20

ZZeitz, Anna: 24