Almost 104 years ago there was born on a farm in Cecil township, Jane Ann Reed. Today the life that started that bleak December 28, 1830, closed its cycle and Jane Ann Reed May passed to the land where her ancestors -- pioneers in this community, her husband and most of her immediate family and almost all her personal friends, have preceded her. Death came to this venerable lady shortly before noon today, at the home of her brother, C. L. Reed, in Houston, where she has made her home since Aug. 1933. Prior to that time she lived in the home of her brother Joseph Reed, in Cecil township, but following his death in July 1933 she was removed to the Reed home in Houston.
While her sight and hearing has been impaired Mrs. May was apparently in her usual physical condition until a few days ago when she is believed to have contracted a slight cold. This grew more aggravated until this morning when she slept into eternity.
Funeral services have been arranged for Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the Reed home in Houston, with her pastor, the Rev. C. T. Littell, pastor of the Venice United Presbyterian church in charge. Burial will follow at Venice.
In the passing of Mrs. May one conjures up the wraith of a forgotten generation, harks back to the days of the settling of a western frontier and to the sturdy forefathers who founded a new outpost and settled a wilderness country.
Mrs. May came from a lineage that knew and entertained George Washington, that figured prominently in the framing of the constitution, went through the Whiskey Insurrection and reared a family that sent two descendants to the United States senate and contributed members to all of the great professions.
On the farm where she was born and but a few miles from the spot where General Washington was entertained by her grandfather and promulgated his order to "squatters" to vacate the land which he claimed as a part of "Washington lands" given him in patents issued by Virginia, Mrs. May lived the greater part of her life. Hers was a cycle which knew rugged privations, love, romance and fulfillment of dreams. It knew sorrow too as her husband, John B. May, to whom she was married December 20, 1854, died 5 days after their golden wedding anniversary. She, who knew the spinning wheel, grain flail, and other early implements of commerce and existence, lived to see the automobile, radio and telephone and heard the giant airplanes zooming over her home carrying the mail which once was borne by "Pony Express" and the stage coach.
The years have brought a mellowness for the memory of George Washington, who about the time Mrs. May was born, was the subject of much adverse controversy in this section because of his arrogance and despossession of the early settlers. It was on the occasion of his visit to her grandfather about that time that Washington was assessed a fine and costs for blasphemy in the court of the "Scottish" Presbyterian justice of the peace of Washington county.
Mrs. May was the daughter of Joseph Reed and Anne McLean Reed and was born December 30, 1830, on the homestead established by her grandparents, David and Margaret May Reed. These grandparents came from Lancaster county and when dispute arose over the title to the lands occupied by the Reeds and others, George Washington found a personal visit necessary to straighten the difficulties.
In his diary of September 20, 1784, he wrote: "David Reed: 2 acres of meadow, 17 acres of arable; a good logged dwelling house with a bad roof; several other small houses and an indifferent barn or stable; bad fences but very good land." Washington also wrote, "Dined at David Reed *-* and consulted with the settlers on these lands."
The settlers who belied they were the rightful owners refused to buy from Washington and were finally compelled to give up their possessions.
David Reed then bought 310 acres about five miles away from Thomas Waller. He paid 1 gun, 1 horse, 1 blanket and $19.97 in cash. This farm has remained in the Reed family since that time and with her brother, Joseph Reed, was the home of Mrs. May until 1933.
Mrs. May's father had two brothers, James and Alexander. James was the great grandfather of Senator David A. Reed of Pittsburgh and Alexander was the grandfather of former Senator James A. of Missouri.
Today finis is written in this long and memorable life. There remains to mourn Mrs. May on brother, C. L. Reed of Houston, many relatives, on or two generations removed, and a host of sorrowing friends, who looked upon her as an institution and the last connecting link with the early history of Washington county.
The Daily Notes
December 13, 1934
Pages 1 & 3
While her sight and hearing has been impaired Mrs. May was apparently in her usual physical condition until a few days ago when she is believed to have contracted a slight cold. This grew more aggravated until this morning when she slept into eternity.
Funeral services have been arranged for Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the Reed home in Houston, with her pastor, the Rev. C. T. Littell, pastor of the Venice United Presbyterian church in charge. Burial will follow at Venice.
In the passing of Mrs. May one conjures up the wraith of a forgotten generation, harks back to the days of the settling of a western frontier and to the sturdy forefathers who founded a new outpost and settled a wilderness country.
Mrs. May came from a lineage that knew and entertained George Washington, that figured prominently in the framing of the constitution, went through the Whiskey Insurrection and reared a family that sent two descendants to the United States senate and contributed members to all of the great professions.
On the farm where she was born and but a few miles from the spot where General Washington was entertained by her grandfather and promulgated his order to "squatters" to vacate the land which he claimed as a part of "Washington lands" given him in patents issued by Virginia, Mrs. May lived the greater part of her life. Hers was a cycle which knew rugged privations, love, romance and fulfillment of dreams. It knew sorrow too as her husband, John B. May, to whom she was married December 20, 1854, died 5 days after their golden wedding anniversary. She, who knew the spinning wheel, grain flail, and other early implements of commerce and existence, lived to see the automobile, radio and telephone and heard the giant airplanes zooming over her home carrying the mail which once was borne by "Pony Express" and the stage coach.
The years have brought a mellowness for the memory of George Washington, who about the time Mrs. May was born, was the subject of much adverse controversy in this section because of his arrogance and despossession of the early settlers. It was on the occasion of his visit to her grandfather about that time that Washington was assessed a fine and costs for blasphemy in the court of the "Scottish" Presbyterian justice of the peace of Washington county.
Mrs. May was the daughter of Joseph Reed and Anne McLean Reed and was born December 30, 1830, on the homestead established by her grandparents, David and Margaret May Reed. These grandparents came from Lancaster county and when dispute arose over the title to the lands occupied by the Reeds and others, George Washington found a personal visit necessary to straighten the difficulties.
In his diary of September 20, 1784, he wrote: "David Reed: 2 acres of meadow, 17 acres of arable; a good logged dwelling house with a bad roof; several other small houses and an indifferent barn or stable; bad fences but very good land." Washington also wrote, "Dined at David Reed *-* and consulted with the settlers on these lands."
The settlers who belied they were the rightful owners refused to buy from Washington and were finally compelled to give up their possessions.
David Reed then bought 310 acres about five miles away from Thomas Waller. He paid 1 gun, 1 horse, 1 blanket and $19.97 in cash. This farm has remained in the Reed family since that time and with her brother, Joseph Reed, was the home of Mrs. May until 1933.
Mrs. May's father had two brothers, James and Alexander. James was the great grandfather of Senator David A. Reed of Pittsburgh and Alexander was the grandfather of former Senator James A. of Missouri.
Today finis is written in this long and memorable life. There remains to mourn Mrs. May on brother, C. L. Reed of Houston, many relatives, on or two generations removed, and a host of sorrowing friends, who looked upon her as an institution and the last connecting link with the early history of Washington county.
The Daily Notes
December 13, 1934
Pages 1 & 3
Almost 104 years ago there was born on a farm in Cecil township, Jane Ann Reed. Today the life that started that bleak December 28, 1830, closed its cycle and Jane Ann Reed May passed to the land where her ancestors -- pioneers in this community, her husband and most of her immediate family and almost all her personal friends, have preceded her. Death came to this venerable lady shortly before noon today, at the home of her brother, C. L. Reed, in Houston, where she has made her home since Aug. 1933. Prior to that time she lived in the home of her brother Joseph Reed, in Cecil township, but following his death in July 1933 she was removed to the Reed home in Houston.
While her sight and hearing has been impaired Mrs. May was apparently in her usual physical condition until a few days ago when she is believed to have contracted a slight cold. This grew more aggravated until this morning when she slept into eternity.
Funeral services have been arranged for Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the Reed home in Houston, with her pastor, the Rev. C. T. Littell, pastor of the Venice United Presbyterian church in charge. Burial will follow at Venice.
In the passing of Mrs. May one conjures up the wraith of a forgotten generation, harks back to the days of the settling of a western frontier and to the sturdy forefathers who founded a new outpost and settled a wilderness country.
Mrs. May came from a lineage that knew and entertained George Washington, that figured prominently in the framing of the constitution, went through the Whiskey Insurrection and reared a family that sent two descendants to the United States senate and contributed members to all of the great professions.
On the farm where she was born and but a few miles from the spot where General Washington was entertained by her grandfather and promulgated his order to "squatters" to vacate the land which he claimed as a part of "Washington lands" given him in patents issued by Virginia, Mrs. May lived the greater part of her life. Hers was a cycle which knew rugged privations, love, romance and fulfillment of dreams. It knew sorrow too as her husband, John B. May, to whom she was married December 20, 1854, died 5 days after their golden wedding anniversary. She, who knew the spinning wheel, grain flail, and other early implements of commerce and existence, lived to see the automobile, radio and telephone and heard the giant airplanes zooming over her home carrying the mail which once was borne by "Pony Express" and the stage coach.
The years have brought a mellowness for the memory of George Washington, who about the time Mrs. May was born, was the subject of much adverse controversy in this section because of his arrogance and despossession of the early settlers. It was on the occasion of his visit to her grandfather about that time that Washington was assessed a fine and costs for blasphemy in the court of the "Scottish" Presbyterian justice of the peace of Washington county.
Mrs. May was the daughter of Joseph Reed and Anne McLean Reed and was born December 30, 1830, on the homestead established by her grandparents, David and Margaret May Reed. These grandparents came from Lancaster county and when dispute arose over the title to the lands occupied by the Reeds and others, George Washington found a personal visit necessary to straighten the difficulties.
In his diary of September 20, 1784, he wrote: "David Reed: 2 acres of meadow, 17 acres of arable; a good logged dwelling house with a bad roof; several other small houses and an indifferent barn or stable; bad fences but very good land." Washington also wrote, "Dined at David Reed *-* and consulted with the settlers on these lands."
The settlers who belied they were the rightful owners refused to buy from Washington and were finally compelled to give up their possessions.
David Reed then bought 310 acres about five miles away from Thomas Waller. He paid 1 gun, 1 horse, 1 blanket and $19.97 in cash. This farm has remained in the Reed family since that time and with her brother, Joseph Reed, was the home of Mrs. May until 1933.
Mrs. May's father had two brothers, James and Alexander. James was the great grandfather of Senator David A. Reed of Pittsburgh and Alexander was the grandfather of former Senator James A. of Missouri.
Today finis is written in this long and memorable life. There remains to mourn Mrs. May on brother, C. L. Reed of Houston, many relatives, on or two generations removed, and a host of sorrowing friends, who looked upon her as an institution and the last connecting link with the early history of Washington county.
The Daily Notes
December 13, 1934
Pages 1 & 3
While her sight and hearing has been impaired Mrs. May was apparently in her usual physical condition until a few days ago when she is believed to have contracted a slight cold. This grew more aggravated until this morning when she slept into eternity.
Funeral services have been arranged for Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the Reed home in Houston, with her pastor, the Rev. C. T. Littell, pastor of the Venice United Presbyterian church in charge. Burial will follow at Venice.
In the passing of Mrs. May one conjures up the wraith of a forgotten generation, harks back to the days of the settling of a western frontier and to the sturdy forefathers who founded a new outpost and settled a wilderness country.
Mrs. May came from a lineage that knew and entertained George Washington, that figured prominently in the framing of the constitution, went through the Whiskey Insurrection and reared a family that sent two descendants to the United States senate and contributed members to all of the great professions.
On the farm where she was born and but a few miles from the spot where General Washington was entertained by her grandfather and promulgated his order to "squatters" to vacate the land which he claimed as a part of "Washington lands" given him in patents issued by Virginia, Mrs. May lived the greater part of her life. Hers was a cycle which knew rugged privations, love, romance and fulfillment of dreams. It knew sorrow too as her husband, John B. May, to whom she was married December 20, 1854, died 5 days after their golden wedding anniversary. She, who knew the spinning wheel, grain flail, and other early implements of commerce and existence, lived to see the automobile, radio and telephone and heard the giant airplanes zooming over her home carrying the mail which once was borne by "Pony Express" and the stage coach.
The years have brought a mellowness for the memory of George Washington, who about the time Mrs. May was born, was the subject of much adverse controversy in this section because of his arrogance and despossession of the early settlers. It was on the occasion of his visit to her grandfather about that time that Washington was assessed a fine and costs for blasphemy in the court of the "Scottish" Presbyterian justice of the peace of Washington county.
Mrs. May was the daughter of Joseph Reed and Anne McLean Reed and was born December 30, 1830, on the homestead established by her grandparents, David and Margaret May Reed. These grandparents came from Lancaster county and when dispute arose over the title to the lands occupied by the Reeds and others, George Washington found a personal visit necessary to straighten the difficulties.
In his diary of September 20, 1784, he wrote: "David Reed: 2 acres of meadow, 17 acres of arable; a good logged dwelling house with a bad roof; several other small houses and an indifferent barn or stable; bad fences but very good land." Washington also wrote, "Dined at David Reed *-* and consulted with the settlers on these lands."
The settlers who belied they were the rightful owners refused to buy from Washington and were finally compelled to give up their possessions.
David Reed then bought 310 acres about five miles away from Thomas Waller. He paid 1 gun, 1 horse, 1 blanket and $19.97 in cash. This farm has remained in the Reed family since that time and with her brother, Joseph Reed, was the home of Mrs. May until 1933.
Mrs. May's father had two brothers, James and Alexander. James was the great grandfather of Senator David A. Reed of Pittsburgh and Alexander was the grandfather of former Senator James A. of Missouri.
Today finis is written in this long and memorable life. There remains to mourn Mrs. May on brother, C. L. Reed of Houston, many relatives, on or two generations removed, and a host of sorrowing friends, who looked upon her as an institution and the last connecting link with the early history of Washington county.
The Daily Notes
December 13, 1934
Pages 1 & 3
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