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Samuel Reed

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Samuel Reed

Birth
Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia, USA
Death
3 Dec 1883 (aged 65)
Ragland, St. Clair County, Alabama, USA
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Ragland, St. Clair County, Alabama, USA
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In August of 1850 Samuel purchased land in the area of Trout Creek, St. Clair County, Alabama which is now Ragland. On October 23, 1858 he deeded part of this land for the use of the Methodist Church to the trustees: H.W. Box, W.D. Floyd and Thomas Phillips. Also, in 1850, Ragland started it's own Post Office located in Samuel's home with Samuel acting as postmaster and his home was used as the post office. The mail was received from Whitney and Munford on a star route.
He was a noted and valuable farmer-citizen of that community for many years. He was quiet, law-abiding and orderly in every way. He was industrious and attentive to business, striving to make a living in that old fashioned, time honored and honest way, growing it out of the ground, and the writer would not under value other laudable vocations or callings, for they are needed in their place. But the man who by honest labor produces a living by growing it out of the earth, deserves the most honor and gets the least in general. Bro. Reed was a man of good morals, high minded and true. A good church member and valuable in his community, for it was not cursed but blessed by his having lived in it. He died several years since, but the writer holds him fresh in memory. J.F. Reed, our worthy friend of Ragland, is his son.

Samuel Reed, 65, was the husband of
1. Mary Lister married Jan. 18, 1842
2. Eliza Gordon, married Apr. 27, 1847 in St. Clair County, Trout Creek, (Ragland), Alabama.

daughter
Mary Artemesa Reed Ash Downing b: June 10, 1845 in Trout Creek, Ala (now Ragland) d: 1929 in Lebanon, Pennsylvania

1860 St Clair Co., AL census:
Samuel Reed 42 M Farmer [GA]
Eliza Reed 48 F House Wife [TN] [Eliza Gordon Reed]
Mary Reed 15 F [AL] [Mary A Reed Ash Downing]
James Reed 10 M [AL] [James F Reed]
John P Maherg Jr 8 M [AL] [John Meharg] nephew
In August of 1850 Samuel purchased land in the area of Trout Creek, St. Clair County, Alabama which is now Ragland. On October 23, 1858 he deeded part of this land for the use of the Methodist Church to the trustees: H.W. Box, W.D. Floyd and Thomas Phillips. Also, in 1850, Ragland started it's own Post Office located in Samuel's home with Samuel acting as postmaster and his home was used as the post office. The mail was received from Whitney and Munford on a star route.
He was a noted and valuable farmer-citizen of that community for many years. He was quiet, law-abiding and orderly in every way. He was industrious and attentive to business, striving to make a living in that old fashioned, time honored and honest way, growing it out of the ground, and the writer would not under value other laudable vocations or callings, for they are needed in their place. But the man who by honest labor produces a living by growing it out of the earth, deserves the most honor and gets the least in general. Bro. Reed was a man of good morals, high minded and true. A good church member and valuable in his community, for it was not cursed but blessed by his having lived in it. He died several years since, but the writer holds him fresh in memory. J.F. Reed, our worthy friend of Ragland, is his son.

Samuel Reed, 65, was the husband of
1. Mary Lister married Jan. 18, 1842
2. Eliza Gordon, married Apr. 27, 1847 in St. Clair County, Trout Creek, (Ragland), Alabama.

daughter
Mary Artemesa Reed Ash Downing b: June 10, 1845 in Trout Creek, Ala (now Ragland) d: 1929 in Lebanon, Pennsylvania

1860 St Clair Co., AL census:
Samuel Reed 42 M Farmer [GA]
Eliza Reed 48 F House Wife [TN] [Eliza Gordon Reed]
Mary Reed 15 F [AL] [Mary A Reed Ash Downing]
James Reed 10 M [AL] [James F Reed]
John P Maherg Jr 8 M [AL] [John Meharg] nephew

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