The Carnegie Herald; Wed., Feb. 1, 1978
Local Pioneer Joins 90-Plus
Ernest Allen Reid, known locally as Ernie, was born January 14, 1888, in Bracken County, Kentucky, to Thomas J. and Elizabeth Griffith Reed.
(Ernie decided as a boy that he preferred the spelling he uses.)
He was the older of two boys in the family. They were farm people and the boys attended the local school until ready for high school. Then Ernie went to the County high school in Brooksville until he married Leona Freshour and had to make a living. After living with his Griffith grandparents until he was ten his mother had married Albert McBeth and it was on his stepfather's place that he first set up housekeeping. Their only daughter, Helen, was born in 1908.
McBeth came to Caddo county in 1908 to look the country over and decided to move to Oklahoma. So, on January, he and the Ernie Reids moved to a farm two miles west and one-half mile north of Alfalfa. One year of crop failure sent the Reids to Carnegie where he worked for the Chickasha Gin as a bookkeeper and weigher.
He continued with the Chickasha Cotton Oil Company and J.B. Boone until he sold his equipment for farming and bought a place in town in 1918 when he and John Simpson organized the Farmers' Union. They drove through the country selling stock to set up an elevator.
The first year they had scales on Main and Highway 58 from which the grain was scooped into the box cars. Business was so good that year they were able to pay off most of the stockholders and build an elevator. He served as secretary-treasurer for two years, then resigned to go into the insurance business. Joe Hogue took over the Farmers' Union job.
Within two years insurance was not so good due to a Union organized insurance company, so Mr. Reid left his associates in the business--Dick Lawson and John Holmes and started a laundry. This was moved to Main Street when he bought the equipment for a steam laundry which he sold to Bill Nolan in 1928 and moved back to the farm near Alfalfa.
Reids stepfather had died in 1918 and his widowed mother moved to the house which is now home here. When she died in 1950 he returned to live in Carnegie. His wife died in 1964 and he married Jessie Rubey Ticer in 1965.
He is the father of four sons and one daughter, the grandfather of eight, great-grandfather of three and the great-great grandfather of one. He is an avid gardener and has a greenhouse full of plants. he continues his interest in his "band" of fellow "fiddlers," banjo, guitar; mandolin and piano players who now meet from time to time at his home "for some music." For two or three years they met regularly at the park to practice and prepare the programs they presented for twenty-six weeks for a Clinton radio station. There were three groups in all during that period. He remembers the two terms he served on the Town Board before he returned to the farm. He has kept his interest in town affairs.
On his ninetieth birthday, two of his sons, Hubert of California and James Kenneth of Mustang, along with the other relatives, celebrated with a big cake and the "fixings" plus a lot of visiting. He told them of his visit to Alaska this past summer when he took a dogsled ride -- on dry ground -- to get the feel of the country. Life continues to be full of many interests and there is time for reading so he looks forward to more birthdays.
The Carnegie Herald, Wed., October 28, 1981
Earnest Reid
Services for Earnest Allen Reid, 93-year-old Carnegie resident, were held at 2 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 22 in the Pitcher Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Raymond McDowell of Mustang officiating.
Reid, a retired income tax consultant, was born Jan. 14, 1888 in Kentucky and died Monday, Oct. 19, in the Carnegie Christian Church.
Survivors include his wife, Jessie of Ogden, Utah; three sons, Herbert of Woodland Hills, Calif., Adrion of Dolan Springs, Ariz., and James of Mustang; a daughter, Helen Suflan of Cave Junction, Ore.; eight grandchildren; five great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Burial was in the Alfalfa Cemetery.
Local Pioneer Joins 90-Plus
Ernest Allen Reid, known locally as Ernie, was born January 14, 1888, in Bracken County, Kentucky, to Thomas J. and Elizabeth Griffith Reed.
(Ernie decided as a boy that he preferred the spelling he uses.)
He was the older of two boys in the family. They were farm people and the boys attended the local school until ready for high school. Then Ernie went to the County high school in Brooksville until he married Leona Freshour and had to make a living. After living with his Griffith grandparents until he was ten his mother had married Albert McBeth and it was on his stepfather's place that he first set up housekeeping. Their only daughter, Helen, was born in 1908.
McBeth came to Caddo county in 1908 to look the country over and decided to move to Oklahoma. So, on January, he and the Ernie Reids moved to a farm two miles west and one-half mile north of Alfalfa. One year of crop failure sent the Reids to Carnegie where he worked for the Chickasha Gin as a bookkeeper and weigher.
He continued with the Chickasha Cotton Oil Company and J.B. Boone until he sold his equipment for farming and bought a place in town in 1918 when he and John Simpson organized the Farmers' Union. They drove through the country selling stock to set up an elevator.
The first year they had scales on Main and Highway 58 from which the grain was scooped into the box cars. Business was so good that year they were able to pay off most of the stockholders and build an elevator. He served as secretary-treasurer for two years, then resigned to go into the insurance business. Joe Hogue took over the Farmers' Union job.
Within two years insurance was not so good due to a Union organized insurance company, so Mr. Reid left his associates in the business--Dick Lawson and John Holmes and started a laundry. This was moved to Main Street when he bought the equipment for a steam laundry which he sold to Bill Nolan in 1928 and moved back to the farm near Alfalfa.
Reids stepfather had died in 1918 and his widowed mother moved to the house which is now home here. When she died in 1950 he returned to live in Carnegie. His wife died in 1964 and he married Jessie Rubey Ticer in 1965.
He is the father of four sons and one daughter, the grandfather of eight, great-grandfather of three and the great-great grandfather of one. He is an avid gardener and has a greenhouse full of plants. he continues his interest in his "band" of fellow "fiddlers," banjo, guitar; mandolin and piano players who now meet from time to time at his home "for some music." For two or three years they met regularly at the park to practice and prepare the programs they presented for twenty-six weeks for a Clinton radio station. There were three groups in all during that period. He remembers the two terms he served on the Town Board before he returned to the farm. He has kept his interest in town affairs.
On his ninetieth birthday, two of his sons, Hubert of California and James Kenneth of Mustang, along with the other relatives, celebrated with a big cake and the "fixings" plus a lot of visiting. He told them of his visit to Alaska this past summer when he took a dogsled ride -- on dry ground -- to get the feel of the country. Life continues to be full of many interests and there is time for reading so he looks forward to more birthdays.
The Carnegie Herald, Wed., October 28, 1981
Earnest Reid
Services for Earnest Allen Reid, 93-year-old Carnegie resident, were held at 2 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 22 in the Pitcher Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Raymond McDowell of Mustang officiating.
Reid, a retired income tax consultant, was born Jan. 14, 1888 in Kentucky and died Monday, Oct. 19, in the Carnegie Christian Church.
Survivors include his wife, Jessie of Ogden, Utah; three sons, Herbert of Woodland Hills, Calif., Adrion of Dolan Springs, Ariz., and James of Mustang; a daughter, Helen Suflan of Cave Junction, Ore.; eight grandchildren; five great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Burial was in the Alfalfa Cemetery.
The Carnegie Herald; Wed., Feb. 1, 1978
Local Pioneer Joins 90-Plus
Ernest Allen Reid, known locally as Ernie, was born January 14, 1888, in Bracken County, Kentucky, to Thomas J. and Elizabeth Griffith Reed.
(Ernie decided as a boy that he preferred the spelling he uses.)
He was the older of two boys in the family. They were farm people and the boys attended the local school until ready for high school. Then Ernie went to the County high school in Brooksville until he married Leona Freshour and had to make a living. After living with his Griffith grandparents until he was ten his mother had married Albert McBeth and it was on his stepfather's place that he first set up housekeeping. Their only daughter, Helen, was born in 1908.
McBeth came to Caddo county in 1908 to look the country over and decided to move to Oklahoma. So, on January, he and the Ernie Reids moved to a farm two miles west and one-half mile north of Alfalfa. One year of crop failure sent the Reids to Carnegie where he worked for the Chickasha Gin as a bookkeeper and weigher.
He continued with the Chickasha Cotton Oil Company and J.B. Boone until he sold his equipment for farming and bought a place in town in 1918 when he and John Simpson organized the Farmers' Union. They drove through the country selling stock to set up an elevator.
The first year they had scales on Main and Highway 58 from which the grain was scooped into the box cars. Business was so good that year they were able to pay off most of the stockholders and build an elevator. He served as secretary-treasurer for two years, then resigned to go into the insurance business. Joe Hogue took over the Farmers' Union job.
Within two years insurance was not so good due to a Union organized insurance company, so Mr. Reid left his associates in the business--Dick Lawson and John Holmes and started a laundry. This was moved to Main Street when he bought the equipment for a steam laundry which he sold to Bill Nolan in 1928 and moved back to the farm near Alfalfa.
Reids stepfather had died in 1918 and his widowed mother moved to the house which is now home here. When she died in 1950 he returned to live in Carnegie. His wife died in 1964 and he married Jessie Rubey Ticer in 1965.
He is the father of four sons and one daughter, the grandfather of eight, great-grandfather of three and the great-great grandfather of one. He is an avid gardener and has a greenhouse full of plants. he continues his interest in his "band" of fellow "fiddlers," banjo, guitar; mandolin and piano players who now meet from time to time at his home "for some music." For two or three years they met regularly at the park to practice and prepare the programs they presented for twenty-six weeks for a Clinton radio station. There were three groups in all during that period. He remembers the two terms he served on the Town Board before he returned to the farm. He has kept his interest in town affairs.
On his ninetieth birthday, two of his sons, Hubert of California and James Kenneth of Mustang, along with the other relatives, celebrated with a big cake and the "fixings" plus a lot of visiting. He told them of his visit to Alaska this past summer when he took a dogsled ride -- on dry ground -- to get the feel of the country. Life continues to be full of many interests and there is time for reading so he looks forward to more birthdays.
The Carnegie Herald, Wed., October 28, 1981
Earnest Reid
Services for Earnest Allen Reid, 93-year-old Carnegie resident, were held at 2 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 22 in the Pitcher Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Raymond McDowell of Mustang officiating.
Reid, a retired income tax consultant, was born Jan. 14, 1888 in Kentucky and died Monday, Oct. 19, in the Carnegie Christian Church.
Survivors include his wife, Jessie of Ogden, Utah; three sons, Herbert of Woodland Hills, Calif., Adrion of Dolan Springs, Ariz., and James of Mustang; a daughter, Helen Suflan of Cave Junction, Ore.; eight grandchildren; five great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Burial was in the Alfalfa Cemetery.
Local Pioneer Joins 90-Plus
Ernest Allen Reid, known locally as Ernie, was born January 14, 1888, in Bracken County, Kentucky, to Thomas J. and Elizabeth Griffith Reed.
(Ernie decided as a boy that he preferred the spelling he uses.)
He was the older of two boys in the family. They were farm people and the boys attended the local school until ready for high school. Then Ernie went to the County high school in Brooksville until he married Leona Freshour and had to make a living. After living with his Griffith grandparents until he was ten his mother had married Albert McBeth and it was on his stepfather's place that he first set up housekeeping. Their only daughter, Helen, was born in 1908.
McBeth came to Caddo county in 1908 to look the country over and decided to move to Oklahoma. So, on January, he and the Ernie Reids moved to a farm two miles west and one-half mile north of Alfalfa. One year of crop failure sent the Reids to Carnegie where he worked for the Chickasha Gin as a bookkeeper and weigher.
He continued with the Chickasha Cotton Oil Company and J.B. Boone until he sold his equipment for farming and bought a place in town in 1918 when he and John Simpson organized the Farmers' Union. They drove through the country selling stock to set up an elevator.
The first year they had scales on Main and Highway 58 from which the grain was scooped into the box cars. Business was so good that year they were able to pay off most of the stockholders and build an elevator. He served as secretary-treasurer for two years, then resigned to go into the insurance business. Joe Hogue took over the Farmers' Union job.
Within two years insurance was not so good due to a Union organized insurance company, so Mr. Reid left his associates in the business--Dick Lawson and John Holmes and started a laundry. This was moved to Main Street when he bought the equipment for a steam laundry which he sold to Bill Nolan in 1928 and moved back to the farm near Alfalfa.
Reids stepfather had died in 1918 and his widowed mother moved to the house which is now home here. When she died in 1950 he returned to live in Carnegie. His wife died in 1964 and he married Jessie Rubey Ticer in 1965.
He is the father of four sons and one daughter, the grandfather of eight, great-grandfather of three and the great-great grandfather of one. He is an avid gardener and has a greenhouse full of plants. he continues his interest in his "band" of fellow "fiddlers," banjo, guitar; mandolin and piano players who now meet from time to time at his home "for some music." For two or three years they met regularly at the park to practice and prepare the programs they presented for twenty-six weeks for a Clinton radio station. There were three groups in all during that period. He remembers the two terms he served on the Town Board before he returned to the farm. He has kept his interest in town affairs.
On his ninetieth birthday, two of his sons, Hubert of California and James Kenneth of Mustang, along with the other relatives, celebrated with a big cake and the "fixings" plus a lot of visiting. He told them of his visit to Alaska this past summer when he took a dogsled ride -- on dry ground -- to get the feel of the country. Life continues to be full of many interests and there is time for reading so he looks forward to more birthdays.
The Carnegie Herald, Wed., October 28, 1981
Earnest Reid
Services for Earnest Allen Reid, 93-year-old Carnegie resident, were held at 2 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 22 in the Pitcher Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Raymond McDowell of Mustang officiating.
Reid, a retired income tax consultant, was born Jan. 14, 1888 in Kentucky and died Monday, Oct. 19, in the Carnegie Christian Church.
Survivors include his wife, Jessie of Ogden, Utah; three sons, Herbert of Woodland Hills, Calif., Adrion of Dolan Springs, Ariz., and James of Mustang; a daughter, Helen Suflan of Cave Junction, Ore.; eight grandchildren; five great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Burial was in the Alfalfa Cemetery.
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