Husband of Clara Gerald Reid.
Former editor of the Montgomery "Advertiser"
during the War of Secession, 1866, editor
of the Montgomery "Bulletin" after the War,
and U. S. Marshal under President Grant's
administration
The Montgomery Advertiser, of the 9th, pays the "last sad honors" to Samuel
G. REID, formerly of its editorial corps. Mr. REID had been for 25 years a resident of Montgomery, whither he came from his native state of North Carolina.
He was the son of Captain REID, who was distinguished for two things: his desperate defense of the privateer General ARMSTRONG in the harbor of Fayal, in 1814, and for his authorship of the United States flag in its present style.
-Mobile News
Published Montgomery Advertiser 1881
Samuel G. Reid
Dead in the zenith of matured manhood…. A disease, one which knows no pity, and which defies all skill, has had its strong hand upon him these many long, weary years…
Consumption had long sat in the citadel of ife. And when, on Thursday night last, at his pleasant suburban home, surrounded by those he loved above all else on earth, he breathed is last, it may not have been a surprise, but it was a shock and a sorrow which they alone can fully know…
He had been a citizen of Alabama from his early manhood, having been born and educated in North Carolina.
He located in Montgomery in 1856, and here he has resided ever since.
He had already been connected several years with the press…
He had also for a short time, previous to his settlement in Montgomery, resided in Kansas, where for some months he conducted a paper devoted to the Southern side of the question that then agitated the country.
Upon his location in this city, he became connected with the Advertiser… (Lengthy
article)
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ALAUTAUG/2004-05/1085925311
http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/montgomery/obits/montgomery-advertisor/obits5.txt
Former editor of the Montgomery "Advertiser"
during the War of Secession, 1866, editor
of the Montgomery "Bulletin" after the War,
and U. S. Marshal under President Grant's
administration
The Montgomery Advertiser, of the 9th, pays the "last sad honors" to Samuel
G. REID, formerly of its editorial corps. Mr. REID had been for 25 years a resident of Montgomery, whither he came from his native state of North Carolina.
He was the son of Captain REID, who was distinguished for two things: his desperate defense of the privateer General ARMSTRONG in the harbor of Fayal, in 1814, and for his authorship of the United States flag in its present style.
-Mobile News
Published Montgomery Advertiser 1881
Samuel G. Reid
Dead in the zenith of matured manhood…. A disease, one which knows no pity, and which defies all skill, has had its strong hand upon him these many long, weary years…
Consumption had long sat in the citadel of ife. And when, on Thursday night last, at his pleasant suburban home, surrounded by those he loved above all else on earth, he breathed is last, it may not have been a surprise, but it was a shock and a sorrow which they alone can fully know…
He had been a citizen of Alabama from his early manhood, having been born and educated in North Carolina.
He located in Montgomery in 1856, and here he has resided ever since.
He had already been connected several years with the press…
He had also for a short time, previous to his settlement in Montgomery, resided in Kansas, where for some months he conducted a paper devoted to the Southern side of the question that then agitated the country.
Upon his location in this city, he became connected with the Advertiser… (Lengthy
article)
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ALAUTAUG/2004-05/1085925311
http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/montgomery/obits/montgomery-advertisor/obits5.txt
Husband of Clara Gerald Reid.
Former editor of the Montgomery "Advertiser"
during the War of Secession, 1866, editor
of the Montgomery "Bulletin" after the War,
and U. S. Marshal under President Grant's
administration
The Montgomery Advertiser, of the 9th, pays the "last sad honors" to Samuel
G. REID, formerly of its editorial corps. Mr. REID had been for 25 years a resident of Montgomery, whither he came from his native state of North Carolina.
He was the son of Captain REID, who was distinguished for two things: his desperate defense of the privateer General ARMSTRONG in the harbor of Fayal, in 1814, and for his authorship of the United States flag in its present style.
-Mobile News
Published Montgomery Advertiser 1881
Samuel G. Reid
Dead in the zenith of matured manhood…. A disease, one which knows no pity, and which defies all skill, has had its strong hand upon him these many long, weary years…
Consumption had long sat in the citadel of ife. And when, on Thursday night last, at his pleasant suburban home, surrounded by those he loved above all else on earth, he breathed is last, it may not have been a surprise, but it was a shock and a sorrow which they alone can fully know…
He had been a citizen of Alabama from his early manhood, having been born and educated in North Carolina.
He located in Montgomery in 1856, and here he has resided ever since.
He had already been connected several years with the press…
He had also for a short time, previous to his settlement in Montgomery, resided in Kansas, where for some months he conducted a paper devoted to the Southern side of the question that then agitated the country.
Upon his location in this city, he became connected with the Advertiser… (Lengthy
article)
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ALAUTAUG/2004-05/1085925311
http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/montgomery/obits/montgomery-advertisor/obits5.txt
Former editor of the Montgomery "Advertiser"
during the War of Secession, 1866, editor
of the Montgomery "Bulletin" after the War,
and U. S. Marshal under President Grant's
administration
The Montgomery Advertiser, of the 9th, pays the "last sad honors" to Samuel
G. REID, formerly of its editorial corps. Mr. REID had been for 25 years a resident of Montgomery, whither he came from his native state of North Carolina.
He was the son of Captain REID, who was distinguished for two things: his desperate defense of the privateer General ARMSTRONG in the harbor of Fayal, in 1814, and for his authorship of the United States flag in its present style.
-Mobile News
Published Montgomery Advertiser 1881
Samuel G. Reid
Dead in the zenith of matured manhood…. A disease, one which knows no pity, and which defies all skill, has had its strong hand upon him these many long, weary years…
Consumption had long sat in the citadel of ife. And when, on Thursday night last, at his pleasant suburban home, surrounded by those he loved above all else on earth, he breathed is last, it may not have been a surprise, but it was a shock and a sorrow which they alone can fully know…
He had been a citizen of Alabama from his early manhood, having been born and educated in North Carolina.
He located in Montgomery in 1856, and here he has resided ever since.
He had already been connected several years with the press…
He had also for a short time, previous to his settlement in Montgomery, resided in Kansas, where for some months he conducted a paper devoted to the Southern side of the question that then agitated the country.
Upon his location in this city, he became connected with the Advertiser… (Lengthy
article)
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ALAUTAUG/2004-05/1085925311
http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/montgomery/obits/montgomery-advertisor/obits5.txt
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