6 children
1808–1871
Birth: August 28, 1808
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26
— Shelby County, Kentucky
Death: December 11, 1871 — Ashmore, Coles County, Illinois
1810–1886
Birth: October 11, 1810
26
28
— Shelby County, Kentucky
Death: September 20, 1886 — Coles County, Illinois
1817–1899
Birth: October 9, 1817
33
35
— Shelby County, Kentucky
Death: October 11, 1899 — Rardin, Coles County, Illinois
1818–1903
Birth: December 1, 1818
34
36
— Elk Creek, Shelby County, Kentucky
Death: November 10, 1903 — his home, Ashmore, Coles County, Illinois
1822–1845
Birth: February 7, 1822
38
39
— Shelby County, Kentucky
Death: October 11, 1845
1783–1852
Birth: December 18, 1783
27
33
— Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Death: December 21, 1852 — the site of his original settlement, near Ashmore, Coles County, Illinois
1756–1835
Birth: August 28, 1756
— Morris County, New Jersey
Death: between 1832 and 1835
1782–1869
Birth: August 11, 1782
28
— Lincoln, Kentucky
Death: February 3, 1869 — Ashmore, Coles County, Illinois
Facts and events
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Marriage
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Note: Memo written at beginning of this marriage volume states it is a transcription from an older book and actual marriage dates may be incorrect. Memo written at beginning of this marriage volume states it is a transcription from an older book and actual marriage dates may be incorrect. This date seems suspect because it is two years after the execution of the marriage bond and two months after the birth of the first child. Officiant was Reuben Smith. His marriage return for this ceremony is undated. |
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Anecdote
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Citation details: pages 394 and 603 Citation details: page 799 Note: On the first of December 1829 he left the state of Kentucky with his family, consisting of a wife and five children, to find a new home in the wilderness of Illinois. They came with a five-horse team, the journey consuming nearly a month. Arriving in Edgar County, Illinois, they spent a few days, and about New Year 1830, they came on to Coles County, Illinois and settled about one and a half miles northeast of the village of Ashmore on the farm later owned by his son Caleb Reed. Thomas Reed entered quite a tract of land owning at one time nearly a thousand acres. He was a strong Whig, although he never sought to lead or hold office. He was a quiet industrious man, attending strictly to his own affairs; conservative in his operations; not given to speculation; a man who enjoyed in an emminent degree the esteem of his neighbors and townsmen. |
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Anecdote
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Source: A Wright Interesting Story
Citation details: page 4 Note: They were said to have brought some of the family's "people" with them from Kentucky. |
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Anecdote
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Note: When Thomas and Ann first arrived in Illinois they liked Grandview so much for a location but there was a rumor that a malady known as "milk sickness" prevailed there so they moved on. He purchased 1200 acres of land, about 1/2 prairie and 1/2 woodland with streams of water flowing through most of it. They lived in a cabin south of Ashmore, where there was lots of timber. Later they built a frame house. Some time after that, they moved it closer to the road. |
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Anecdote
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Note: Other early settlers in Coles County were Thomas and Sarah Lincoln, parents of Abraham Lincoln. The future President never lived in Coles County, but he visited there from time to time during his legal career. |
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Real Estate Grantor
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Note: to Elijah Stout for $175 a tract of land on the waters of Elk Creek: Beginning at 2 white oaks, thence N60 W116 poles to a walnut and hickory, thence S30 W16 3/4 poles to a sugartree, thence S60 E118 [poles] to a stone in the bank of said creek, thence up the creek 16 3/4 poles to the beginning. |
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Real Estate Grantor
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Note: to their son Robertson Reed Section 6: NW, E/2NE, T12N, R11E; Lot 1 of the NE/4, T12N,R14W. |