Descendants of Moses Reeder

~Four Generations~

by

Wes Reeder

First Draft
July 1999
 Reeder Roots
Descendants of Moses Reeder

~Four Generations ~

[Updated: September 1, 1999]

Front Cover : This photo was taken on April 21, 1906 in Pomona, California and shows from
left to right: Daniel Reeder; Lulu (Sharp) Reeder; Don Daniel Reeder, age 6; Paul Hugh Reeder,
age 10; George Clifford Reeder, age 3 months; Arthur John Reeder, age 9; Lawson DeWitt
Reeder, age 4; John C. Reeder; and Mary (Quick) Reeder. The image is very important to me
because it includes my grandfather (Don), great grandfather (John), and my great, great
grandfather (Daniel) all together in a single photograph. I received the photograph from Britt Lux,
who in turn received it from Gertrude (Wetter) Reeder, widow of Phillip Morton Reeder in
Seabeck, Washington. John Reeder probably originally gave the photograph to Phillip's
grandfather, Morton Reeder. John was Morton's uncle.
The days that pass through us
The years that do the same
Take their toll and
Enviably douse the flame
But what binds us all
as Family
Well beyond the grave
Is not what we have or had
But the history
of our Name

-Anonymous
 Dedicated to
Mary Emily REEDER
(1901-1997)
 Table of Contents

Introduction....................................................................................................... 4
Tree: Moses Reeder to the Seven Brothers........................................................ 5
Reeder Roots .................................................................................................... 6
Descendants of Moses Reeder......................................................................... 14
Ancestors of Elizabeth Randall........................................................................ 28
Ancestors of Elizabeth Bateman ...................................................................... 30
Ancestors of Lulu Belle Sharp ......................................................................... 33
Appendix A: Obituary of Eamon Reeder ........................................................ 37
Appendix B: Obituary of Daniel Reeder .......................................................... 39
Appendix C: Obituary of Elizabeth (Bateman) Reeder..................................... 43
Appendix D: Obituary of Mary (Quick) Reeder.............................................. 45
Appendix E: Daniel Reeder from Missaukee Family Histories ........................ 48
Appendix F: Washington Reeder Biography................................................... 51
Appendix G: Journal of Martin Reeder ........................................................... 54
Appendix H: Lake City Newpaper 1936.......................................................... 64
Appendix H: John C. Reeder Biography ......................................................... 73
Appendix I: Letter to Orilla (Reeder) Ostrander.............................................. 78
Bibliography.................................................................................................... 83
Index of Individuals......................................................................................... 85

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Introduction
In the spring of 1998, while celebrating my father's 75 th birthday, my brother
told us all a strange tale of Canada and Michigan and of an ancestor born just
before the Revolutionary War named Moses Reeder. Thus began my search for
Roots. So far, it has been an interesting and meaningful journey, sometimes
surprising and often frustrating but nevertheless a journey that I intend to
continue.

This is the first version of this document and is based upon preliminary
research conducted between June 1998 and July 1999. Additions and
corrections will undoubtedly be included in future versions. There is a great
deal more research to be done as well as verifying the accuracy of the current
information.

Although much of the research effort over the past year has been spent
gathering information for the Descendants of Moses Reeder (page 14), the
story of Reeder Roots is a far more complex and rich history than the scattered
names, dates and facts presented here. It is the story of an enduring pioneer
spirit, hard work, a gentle heart and a respect for the land. It is their shoulders
that we now stand upon. I sincerely hope that the information here will
encourage others and will be used as an outline for further family research.

The following is a partial list of the people whose extra ordinary help made this
document possible.

Hazel Reeder, Montclair, California

Kay Jevons, Los Angeles, California
F. Britton Lux, Oak Park, Michigan
Heather Beed, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Linda Tilot, Saginaw, Michigan
Pam Hambrock, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Mary DuVall, Lake City, Michigan
Peter Hubicki, Charlotte, North Carolina
Greg Reeder, San Francisco, California
William Reeder Chandler, Boise, Idaho

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Moses Catherine
Reeder Moreland

Elizabeth William Susannah Moses Eamon Elizabeth Eleanor Moreland

Reeder Reeder Reeder Reeder, Jr. Reeder Randall Reeder Reeder

Charles Daniel Elizabeth Harriet Washington William Selina

Reeder Reeder Bateman Reeder Reeder Reeder Reeder

Agnes George E. Orilla Jane John Cumley Lulu Belle Elizabeth

Reeder Reeder Reeder Reeder Sharp Reeder

Paul Hugh Arthur John Don Daniel Lawson D. George C. Lewis T. Stanley
Reeder Reeder Reeder Reeder Reeder Reeder Reeder

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ℜ
This preliminary version begins just before the Revolutionary War with Moses
Reeder . Most sources indicate that Moses was born in Bucks County,
Pennsylvania in 1772. Moses had a twin brother named Isaac and a younger
brother named Job born in 1776. (Information regarding the descendants of
Isaac and Job may be included in future versions.) Like his other family
members, Moses was a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

There is additional data that strongly suggests Moses and family are direct
descendants of John Reeder (born about 1618) who came to America from
England in 1630 with the Winthrop Fleet aboard the flagship Arbella. This
John Reeder is the basis for the John Reeder Family Association. Ernestine
Siegel, in Tampa, Florida is currently the Director.

In 1636, John Reeder was granted land in Springfield, Massachusetts. Twelve

families (including John Reeder's family) founded Springfield in that year
under the leadership of William Pynchon. The town was originally called
Agawam but was changed in 1640 to Springfield in honor of Pynchon's
hometown.

Several important people descend from the John Reeder line, including Andrew
Reeder, first governor of Kansas and the Wright Brothers, whose grandmother
was Catherine Reeder.

According to Ernestine Siegel, it was the grandson of John Reeder (Joseph

Reeder, born 1681, Long Island, died 1732 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania),
who was the progenitor of the Quaker Reeders. Prior to Joseph, the Reeders
were Protestants.

Joseph's son, Charles Biles Reeder, Quaker, born 1713 in West Jersey, died
1804 in Pine Grove, Bucks County, Pennsylvania married Eleanor Merrick.
Moses Reeder was probably the grandson of Charles and Eleanor. According to
Ernestine Siegel, the parents of Moses were Joseph Reeder and Dorothy
Sutton . However, according to the unpublished book "The Reeder Family in
America" by Consuelo & Robert Furman (1948, 1953), the parents of Moses
were Joseph Reeder and Elizabeth Henderson.

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Regardless, we know that Moses brought his children (William, Moses Jr.,
Eamon, Moreland, Eleanor, and Elizabeth) to Whitchurch Township, York
County, Ontario, Canada. He probably emmigrated to York County with other
Quaker families from Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Records on file with the Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS) indicate that Moses
Reeder married Catherine Moreland about 1804. No other records have been
found so far to confirm this marriage. William, the eldest child of Moses, was
born in 1799 and therefore, may be a child from a previous marriage. It is not
known whether Catherine went to Canada with Moses; no other reference to
her has been found.

From the book "Whitchurch Township" prepared by the Whitchurch History

Book Committee:

"Although Quakers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey did not suffer

persecution during or after the American Revolution on account of
their non-combatant status, lawlessness and oppressive taxation
persuaded many of them to head north across the border in search
of a new life in Upper Canada.

They were shrewd, industrious, sober-minded, and familiar with

conditions in the backwoods. Samuel Lundy was one such person.

In 1802 he and Isaac Phillips, from Muncy County, Pennsylvania,

applied to Lt.-Gov. Peter Hunter for a grant of twenty parcels of
land of 200 acres each on the third, fourth, and fifth concessions of
Whitchurch, promising at the time to secure the necessary settlers to
clear the land. A clause in the grant stated that 10 acres were to be
cleared (to farm) and fenced; a log or frame structure of 16 by 20
feet with a shingle roof had to be constructed; all timber in front of
and the whole width of the lot had to be cleared, with 35 feet to be
cleared and left for half the public road. This formidable task was
to be accomplished within two years.

In the winter of 1802 a small band of settlers arrived from

Pennsylvania to take possession of their new homesteads. Some of
the original families in the area were the Lundys, Tooles,
Widdifields, Boughstanchs, Clines, Playters, Lloyds, Randalls, and
Willsons."

Several of these surnames appear in the Reeder family tree.

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Although the Reeders did settle on the land secured by Samuel Lundy, it does
not appear that the Reeders went to Canada with Samuel and the original
group of Quakers in 1802. LDS records indicate that the last child of Moses
(Moreland Reeder) was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1813. In
addition, the biography of Washington Reeder (Appendix C) from the book
"Biographical Record of Northern Michigan" (1895), states "Emon Reeder moved
to Canada with his father [Moses] when seven years old." Since Eamon was
born about 1809, this implies a date of about 1816.

Eamon Reeder married Elizabeth Randall. Elizabeth was the daughter of Asa
Randall and Mary Collins (information regarding the ancestors of Elizabeth
Randall is included on page 21). Records in the Quaker Archives of Pickering
College (Newmarket, Ontario, Canada) indicate that the Randalls were Quakers
who transferred from the Muncy Monthly Meeting in Pennsylvania on March
14, 1816. Perhaps the Reeders traveled from Pennsylvania with the Randall
family in the spring of 1816.

We do know that the Reeders are in Whitchurch Township by the year 1826.
From page 17 of the book "Whitchurch Township":

"As Whitchurch grew, so too did local government. In 1825 William

Barber was appointed town clerk, and by the following year
municipal organization included two wardens, an assessor, and a
tax collector. These officials were Joseph Hewitt, town clerk;
William Reader and J. Hewitt, assessors; Samuel Ball, collector;
and Eli Gorham and John Bogard, Jr., town wardens."

William Reader is also listed as a private, age 29 in the 1st. Company, 2nd
Regiment of the North York Militia (boundary of which was Whitchurch
Township). The list was dated October 1828 and is included in the book
entitled "Men of Upper Canada: Militia Nominal Rolls, 1828-1829". Moses Sr.
is shown on a supplementary list for the 2nd Regiment, dated June 1828 that
includes men from 16 to 50 and in some cases, 60 years old. Although the fact
Reeders were listed in the Militia and were at the same time Quakers, may be
an apparent contradiction, the supplementary list does include some Quakers
and others of generally exempt status.

Moses Sr., Moses Jr., William and Eamon took the oath of allegiance (were
naturalized as Canadian citizens) in 1831 (Upper Canada Naturalization
Records 1828-1850, compiled by Donald A. McKenzie).

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William and Eamon Reeder are listed on Walton's 1837 Home Directory of
Whitchurch Township as living on Lot 25 of Concession 5 (100 acres each).

The book entitled "The Benjamin Lundy Family" by William Armstrong (1902)
indicates that William Reeder married Sarah Lundy. In addition, it indicates
that Sarah Lundy was the granddaughter of the above mentioned Samuel
Lundy as follows:

Children of Samuel Lundy and Sarah Webster:

Ebenezer Lundy
John Lundy m. Elizabeth Toole
Richard Lundy
Samuel II Lundy

Children of John Lundy and Elizabeth Toole:

John Lundy m. Hannah Penrose

Sarah Lundy m. William Reader
Agnes Lundy m. John Willson
Elizabeth Lundy m. Henry Minthorn
Lavina Lundy m. Joseph Minthorn

It also indicates that John Lundy and Elizabeth Toole (parents of Sarah Lundy)
lived on Lot 26 of Concession 5 in Whitchurch Township. Lot 26 was
immediately adjacent to Lot 25 listed for the Reeders in 1837.

The principal Quaker settlement in Whitchurch Township centered on the

Yonge Street Meeting House. The Meeting House was established in 1810 and
is the oldest Quaker Meeting House still in use in Canada. The Quaker
settlement on Yonge Street eventually became known as the town of
Newmarket.

Eamon Reeder married Elizabeth Randall about 1829 or 1830 probably in

Newmarket. Eamon and Elizabeth had six children including Charles, Daniel
and Washington. Charles and Daniel were born in Newmarket (1831 and
1833).

The reasons why most of the Reeders left Whitchurch Township are not yet
clear. There was a division of the Quakers about 1828 (Hicksite Separation).
In addition, there was the Rebellion of 1837-1838 in Upper Canada that may

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have played an important role. The Rebellion had its roots in Newmarket.

Moses and Eamon are shown as living in Durham County in 1841 (Upper
Canada Naturalization Records 1828-1850). However, Victoria County land
records indicate that the Canada Company sold Moses Jr. the north ½ of Lot
20, Concession 8 in Mariposa Township in August 1838. In addition, Eamon
purchased 100 acres of the north ½ of Lot 16, Concession 6 in April 1839.
These properties were located in the settlement known as Oakwood in Mariposa
Township, Victoria County. Oakwood still exists today as a small roadside
farming community.

A new Quaker Preparative Meeting was established in Mariposa by 1845 as a

result of the influx of Quaker families into the area between 1837 and 1844. A
Quarterly Meeting was established by 1849 (History of the Township of
Mariposa by Ross Irwin).

Daniel Reeder married Elizabeth Bateman in 1855 (information regarding the

ancestors of Elizabeth Bateman is included on page 22). Daniel and Elizabeth
had five children (Agnes, George, Orilla, John and Elizabeth).

The 1861 Ontario census lists Moses Sr. and the families of Eamon and Daniel
in Mariposa. Unlike his father and grandfather, Daniel Reeder was apparently
not a Quaker but was an Episcopal Methodist and is listed as such on the
1861 census.

Moses Sr. died in Oakwood in 1864, reportedly while living with his son
Eamon. I still have not determined where Moses is buried. Moses Jr. died in
1882. He and his first wife, Elizabeth, are buried in the East Oakwood
Cemetery.

In the fall of 1867, not long after the death of his first wife (Elizabeth Bateman)
and the death of his youngest child (Elizabeth Reeder), Daniel Reeder left
Canada. By the spring of 1868, Daniel established a homestead along the
shore of Missaukee Lake in what is now Lake City, Michigan (see Appendix B).
In the fall of 1868, Daniel returned to Canada and brought his children and
his brother, Washington, to Lake City. Within a few years, Daniel's parents
(Eamon and Elizabeth), his brother Charles and other relatives joined Daniel in
Lake City.

The settlement of Lake City was originally called "Reeder". In 1873, Reeder
became the county seat of Missaukee County. The town was renamed in 1877
to Lake City. Lake City was incorporated into a village in 1889 and later as a

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city in 1932. Lake City is still located within Reeder Township and continues
to be the county seat of Missaukee County. Daniel Reeder is credited as the
founder of Lake City.

Daniel Reeder married Mary Amelia Quick in 1872. Daniel and Mary had two
children, Martin Daniel and Mary Louise. The Journal of Martin Reeder
(included in this book as Appendix D) documents the early days of Lake City.
Martin's daughter, Mary Emily Reeder, compiled the Journal after her father's
death in 1953.

Daniel Reeder died in 1912 and is buried in Lake City along with other Reeder
family members including his parents (see Eamon's obituary, Appendix A).
Daniel's picture currently hangs in the Lake City Methodist Church. He
apparently donated the land that the church is built upon.

Daniel's son, John Comely Reeder, was born in 1862 in Victoria County,
Canada. John came to Michigan in 1868 as a young boy with his father (see
Appendix E). In 1873, John was one of only three pupils enrolled in Lake
City's first school. The teacher was Rev. John J. Quick, Daniel Reeder's father-
in-law (Missaukee County Family Histories, 1983).

John left home when he was a teenager (prior to 1880). In about 1888, he may
have gone to Washington State in a lumbering venture with Paul Lux of Lake
City (still being researched). He came to southern California about 1891.

On March 26, 1894 John purchased 55 acres of land near Foster in San Diego
County for the sum of fifteen dollars (San Diego County Grant Deed, Book 230,
Page 8). On April 18, 1894 John married Lulu Belle Sharp in Pomona
(information regarding the ancestors of Lulu Sharp is included on page 24).
John and Lulu had seven sons ( The Seven Brothers). The first three ( Paul,
Arthur and Don) were born in San Diego County, probably at the ranch in
Foster.

Things apparently did not work out well for John in San Diego County and on
October 10, 1900 he purchased 10 acres of land along Holt Boulevard in the
Pomona/Ontario area for four hundred fifty dollars (San Bernardino County
Grant Deed, Book 294, Page 296). This area was originally known as Monte
Vista and was part of the "San Antonio Tract" but now is incorporated as the
City of Montclair. Family tradition holds that John moved the entire house
from Chino to Holt Boulevard using logs and horses. He also built a barn on
the property. As part of the original deed, John received 50 shares of stock in
the Del Monte Irrigation Company. John became a successful citrus farmer.

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The remaining four sons of John and Lulu (Lawson, George, Lewis and
Stanley) were born at the Reeder home. Lulu died in 1931, John died two
years later in 1933. The Reeder home, located at 4405 Holt Boulevard, still
exits as an "island" of history that is occupied and lovingly cared for by Hazel
(Harrison) Reeder (George Reeder's widow). George and Hazel were married in
the Reeder home in 1938.

Daniel's younger brother, Washington Reeder, is reported to have died in

Pomona in 1908. He was probably visiting his nephew John at the Reeder
home on Holt Boulevard when he became ill and died. Washington's body was
taken back to Lake City where he was buried. These two branches of the family
(Washington's branch and John's branch) apparently had no further contact
until just recently when I met with Kay (Frazier) Jevons (Washington Reeder's
granddaughter) this past May in Temecula.

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Several of the familiar names within the family are probably after relatives. The
name of George is likely after John's brother, George Emon Reeder who in
turn was probably named after his grandfather, George Bateman. Lawson
Reeder was likely named after his grandfather, Lawson Sharp. John's unusual
middle name of Comely may have come from his grandmother's brother,
Comely Randall.

There are two presidential connections and although not direct, are worth
noting. Daniel Reeder married Elizabeth Bateman. Elizabeth's mother was
Jane Penrose. Jane's great great grandfather was Mordecai Lincoln. Mordecai
Lincoln was also the great great grandfather of Abraham Lincoln, our 16th
President.

The son of Moses Sr., William Reeder, had a daughter named Eleanor. Eleanor
Reeder married James Minthorn. James' brother, Theodore Minthorn, is
Herbert Hoover's grandfather. Herbert's parents were Hulda Randall Minthorn
and Jesse Clark Hoover.

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Descendants of Moses Reeder

Generation No. 1

1. MOSES1 REEDER (JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born August 10,
1772 in Lycoming Creek, Northumberland Co., Pennsylvania, and died May 5, 1864 in
Oakwood, Mariposa Toownship, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. He married CATHERINE
MORELAND Abt. 1796 in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She was born Abt. 1775 in
Pennsylvania, and died in Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario, Canada.

Children of MOSES REEDER and C ATHERINE MORELAND are:

i. ELIZABETH2 REEDER.
2. ii. WILLIAM REEDER, b. May 10, 1799; d. May 7, 1839, Whitchurch Township, York County,
Ontario, Canada.
iii. SUSANNAH REEDER, b. January 12, 1802.
3. iv. MOSES REEDER, JR., b. November 27, 1805, Farmington, Ontario, New York; d. October 9,
1882, Oakwood, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada.
4. v. EAMON REEDER, b. March 31, 1809, Canandaigua, Ontario, New York; d. October 6, 1885,
Lake City, Michigan.
vi. ELEANOR REEDER, b. 1810, New York.
5. vii. MORELAND REEDER, b. August 1, 1813, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; d. December 19, 1898,
McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.

Generation No. 2

2. WILLIAM2 REEDER (MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born
May 10, 1799, and died May 7, 1839 in Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario, Canada.
He married SARAH LUNDY, daughter of JOHN LUNDY and E LIZABETH TOOLE. She died Aft.
1839.

Children of WILLIAM REEDER and S ARAH LUNDY are:

6. i. WILLIAM J.A.3 REEDER, b. Abt. 1829; d. March 21, 1921.
7. ii. ELEANOR MARGARET REEDER, b. October 10, 1822; d. May 18, 1874, Manilla, Ontario, Canada.
8. iii. ELIZABETH REEDER, b. November 5, 1827, Ontario, Canada; d. May 25, 1904, Greenwood
Township, St. Clair County, Michigan.
iv. CHARLES Y. REEDER, b. Abt. 1835; d. Aft. 1920.
9. v. SAMUEL T. REEDER, b. August 16, 1839, York County, Ontario, Canada; d. June 18, 1905,
Edinboro, Pennsylvania.

3. MOSES2 REEDER, JR. (MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born
November 27, 1805 in Farmington, Ontario, New York, and died October 9, 1882 in
Oakwood, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. He married (1) ELIZABETH
TOOLE June 14, 1829 in Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada, daughter of JOHN
TOOLE and E LIN DILLMAN. She was born September 25, 1803, and died February 13, 1869 in
Oakwood, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. He married (2) HANNAH

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DEGEER Abt. 1871, daughter of JAMES DEGEER and E LIZABETH BROOKS. She was born
Abt. 1825 in Markham Township, York County, Ontario, Canada, and died 1901 in Mariposa
Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada.

Children of MOSES REEDER and E LIZABETH TOOLE are:

i. MOSES3 REEDER.
ii. JOB REEDER, b. Abt. 1831.
iii. GEORGE REEDER, b. Abt. 1833; d. Abt. 1885.
iv. EMON T. REEDER, b. June 18, 1837; d. Aft. 1900.
10. v. SARAH ANN REEDER, b. August 12, 1841, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario,
Canada; d. 1931.

4. EAMON2 REEDER (MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born
March 31, 1809 in Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, and died October 6, 1885 in Lake City,
Michigan. He married ELIZABETH RANDALL Abt. 1830 in Canada, daughter of ASA
RANDALL and M ARY COLLINS. She was born February 8, 1805 in Pennsylvania, and died
June 26, 1886 in Lake City, Michigan.

Children of EAMON REEDER and E LIZABETH RANDALL are:

11. i. CHARLES3 REEDER, b. 1831, Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada; d. September 27, 1894.
12. ii. DANIEL REEDER, b. June 24, 1833, Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada; d. April 26,
1912, Lake City, Michigan.
13. iii. HARRIET REEDER, b. Abt. 1840, Ontario, Canada; d. February 12, 1912, Lake City, Michigan.
14. iv. WASHINGTON REEDER, b. July 4, 1841, Ontario, Canada; d. November 3, 1908, Pomona, Los
Angeles County, California.
v. WILLIAM REEDER, b. May 8, 1843, Ontario, Canada; d. January 26, 1918; m. DELL
HERRINGTON.
15. vi. SELINA REEDER, b. Abt. 1846, Ontario, Canada; d. February 1, 1929, Richmond, Virgina.

5. MORELAND2 REEDER (MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born
August 1, 1813 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and died December 19, 1898 in McGillivray
Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada. He married SARAH TEEL March 16, 1836 in
Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario, Canada, daughter of FRANCIS TEEL and
ELIZABETH BAKER. She was born 1816 in Windsor, Maryland, and died April 3, 1885 in
McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.

Children of MORELAND REEDER and S ARAH TEEL are:

16. i. JANE ELIZABETH3 REEDER, b. February 11, 1837; d. December 16, 1892.
17. ii. SUSANNA REEDER, b. August 12, 1838, Ontario, Canada; d. May 1, 1909, McGillivray
Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.
18. iii. JOHN REEDER, b. May 2, 1840, Markham Townshipo, York County, Ontario, Canada; d. March
13, 1918, West McGillivray Township, York County, Ontario, Canada.
19. iv. ALEXANDER REEDER, b. July 17, 1841; d. Aft. 1901.
v. MARIA REEDER, b. September 17, 1843; m. JAMES LAMPORT .
20. vi. MOSES REEDER, b. February 2, 1845, Ontario, Canada; d. July 26, 1935, McGillivray Township,
Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.

Generation No. 3

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6. WILLIAM J.A.3 REEDER (WILLIAM2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD,

JOHNE) was born Abt. 1829, and died March 21, 1921. He married LAVINA WILLIS
September 18, 1879 in Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada, daughter of CORNELIUS
WILLIS. She was born September 1854 in Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada, and
died April 14, 1935 in Cadillac, Michigan.

Children of WILLIAM REEDER and L AVINA WILLIS are:

i. WILLIAM EVERETT 4 REEDER, b. June 15, 1881; d. March 11, 1948, Lake City, Michigan.
21. ii. MARION REEDER, b. April 7, 1883; d. January 29, 1972.

7. ELEANOR MARGARET3 REEDER (WILLIAM2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC,

ISAACD, JOHNE) was born October 10, 1822, and died May 18, 1874 in Manilla, Ontario,
Canada. She married JAMES MINTHORN, son of JOHN MINTHORN and L UCINDY SHERWOOD.
He was born September 4, 1820 in Canada, and died August 10, 1872 in Manilla, Ontario,
Canada.

Children of ELEANOR REEDER and J AMES MINTHORN are:

i. SARAH4 MINTHORN, b. January 15, 1848, Ontario, Canada.
22. ii. NORMAN MINTHORN, b. June 1, 1850, Ontario, Canada; d. Ontario, Canada.
23. iii. WILLIAM ALVY MINTHORN, b. September 4, 1852, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; d. January
13, 1951, Lake City, Michigan.
iv. ELIZA MINTHORN, b. February 5, 1854, Ontario, Canada; d. Ontario, Canada.
v. COSFORD MINTHORN, b. August 20, 1857, Ontario, Canada; d. November 9, 1937, Lake City,
MI.
vi. ALONZO MINTHORN, b. August 2, 1859, Ontario, Canada; d. May 6, 1942; m. M AGGIE DULYEA,
1908.
vii. MANCHESKI MINTHORN, b. July 25, 1861, Ontario, Canada; d. Williamsburg, Michigan.
viii. JOHN MINTHORN, b. July 4, 1864, Ontario, Canada; d. Idaho.
ix. SAMUEL MINTHORN, b. December 16, 1867, Ontario, Canada.
x. MARY MINTHORN, b. August 10, 1870, Ontario, Canada; d. San Mateo, California.

8. ELIZABETH3 REEDER (WILLIAM2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD,

JOHNE) was born November 5, 1827 in Ontario, Canada, and died May 25, 1904 in Greenwood
Township, St. Clair County, Michigan. She married NELSON TEETS, son of WILLIAM TEETS.
He was born November 16, 1827 in New York, and died October 19, 1906 in Greenwood
County, St. Clair County, Michigan.

Children of ELIZABETH REEDER and N ELSON TEETS are:

i. WILLIAM G.4 TEETS, b. 1849; d. December 20, 1915; m. JANE KNOWLTON.
ii. HENRYETTE TEETS, b. 1852, Ontario, Canada; d. 1895.
24. iii. GEORGE NELSON TEETS, b. July 31, 1854, Missouri; d. February 17, 1939, Yale, Michigan.
iv. CHARLES G. TEETS, b. 1856.
v. LOUISA TEETS, b. 1860, Ontario, Canada; m. A LBERT KNOLL.
vi. JAMES TEETS, b. 1862; d. February 1, 1939, Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan; m. L ILLIAN
A D UCATT, January 12, 1898; b. 1872.
vii. MARY ANN TEETS, b. 1864, Fremont, Michigan; m. J AMES RIX, April 30, 1893, St. ClairCounty,
Michigan; b. 1850.
25. viii. ELWOOD TEETS, b. 1869; d. October 13, 1941, Greenwood Township, St. Clair County,
Michigan.
ix. ALFRED TEETS, b. 1873.

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9. SAMUEL T.3 REEDER (WILLIAM2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE)
was born August 16, 1839 in York County, Ontario, Canada, and died June 18, 1905 in
Edinboro, Pennsylvania. He married MARY L. GREEN, daughter of DEACON ALFRED GREEN.
She was born Abt. 1843 in Pennsylvania, and died Aft. 1900.

Children of SAMUEL REEDER and M ARY GREEN are:

i. PRENTICE A.4 REEDER, b. Abt. 1874.
ii. SALLY LOUISE REEDER, b. Abt. 1879.
iii. TEXIE E. REEDER, b. Abt. 1880, Pennslyvania; d. Aft. 1930.

10. SARAH ANN3 REEDER (MOSES2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD,
JOHNE) was born August 12, 1841 in Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada,
and died 1931. She married JOHN DOBSON February 17, 1863 in Victoria County, Ontario,
Canada, son of WILLIAM DOBSON and D OROTHY UNKNOWN. He was born January 16, 1842
in England, and died 1910.

Children of SARAH REEDER and J OHN DOBSON are:

i. MARY ANN4 DOBSON, b. Abt. 1865, Ontario, Canada.
ii. WILLIAM DOBSON, b. Abt. 1869, Ontario, Canada.
iii. ELLA DOBSON, b. Abt. 1877, Ontario, Canada.
iv. FRANCES LILLIE DOBSON, b. January 6, 1880.

11. CHARLES3 REEDER (EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE)
was born 1831 in Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada, and died September 27, 1894.
He married SARAH ANN PLAYTER July 17, 1855 in Wesleyan Parsonage, Aurora, Canada,
daughter of WATSON PLAYTER and M ARY WEBSTER. She was born November 30, 1836 in
Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario, Canada, and died April 2, 1918.

Children of CHARLES REEDER and S ARAH PLAYTER are:

26. i. JOSEPH WITNEY4 REEDER, b. December 6, 1856, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario,
Canada; d. March 25, 1929.
ii. FRANK REEDER, b. Abt. 1857, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; m.
ELIZABETH FULLER.
iii. JOHN WATSON REEDER, b. December 8, 1858, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario,
Canada.
iv. CHARLES FRANKLIN REEDER, b. November 15, 1861, Mariposa Township, Victoria County,
Ontario, Canada.
v. ELIZABETH ANN REEDER, b. 1865, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada.
27. vi. WILLIAM LINCOLN REEDER, b. August 26, 1866, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario,
Canada; d. July 4, 1934, Durban, South Africa.
vii. WASHINGTON LESLIE REEDER, b. May 29, 1869, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario,
Canada; d. 1901, Lake City, Michigan.
viii. EMON EVERETT REEDER, b. August 20, 1870, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario,
Canada; d. March 16, 1875, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada.
ix. MARSHALL EDGAR REEDER, b. December 1, 1871, Mariposa Township, Victoria County,
Ontario, Canada; d. 1908.
28. x. FRED HOWARD REEDER, b. September 2, 1876, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario,
Canada; d. May 31, 1945.

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29. xi. CHARLOTTE ESTELLA REEDER, b. February 12, 1878, Mariposa Township, Victoria County,
Ontario, Canada; d. November 18, 1946, Beuton Harbor, Michigan.
xii. ROY WEBSTER REEDER, b. September 14, 1880; m. E THEL EVANS.

12. DANIEL3 REEDER (EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE)
was born June 24, 1833 in Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada, and died April 26,
1912 in Lake City, Michigan. He married (1) ELIZABETH BATEMAN February 15, 1855,
daughter of GEORGE BATEMAN and J ANE PENROSE. She was born April 14, 1837 in Canada,
and died April 1, 1865 in Oakwood, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. He married (2) MARY
AMELIA QUICK February 29, 1872 in Traverse City, Grand Traverse, Michigan, daughter of
JOHN QUICK and D EBORAH TUNISON. She was born May 29, 1850 in New Jersey, and died
March 25, 1914 in Boyne City, Michigan.

Children of DANIEL REEDER and E LIZABETH BATEMAN are:

30. i. AGNES4 REEDER, b. December 2, 1855, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; d. August 24, 1941,
Kalkaska County, Michigan.
31. ii. GEORGE EMON REEDER, b. July 7, 1858, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; d. January 28, 1902,
Duluth, Minnesota.
32. iii. ORILLA JANE REEDER, b. February 14, 1860, Ontario, Canada; d. February 14, 1942, Lake City,
Missaukee County, Michigan.
33. iv. JOHN CUMLEY REEDER, b. September 18, 1862, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; d. June 28,
1933, Montclair, San Bernardino County, California.
v. ELIZABETH REEDER, b. March 23, 1865; d. June 20, 1878.

Children of DANIEL REEDER and M ARY QUICK are:

34. vi. MARTIN DANIEL4 REEDER, b. June 23, 1874, Lake City, Missaukee County, Michigan; d.
January 26, 1953, Lake City, Missaukee County, Michigan.
vii. MARY LOUISA REEDER, b. February 24, 1877, Lake City, Michigan; d. October 7, 1965, Clark
Memorial Home, Grand Rapids, Michigan; m. (1) W ILLIAM HOWARD WHITE, October 1899,
Boyne, Michigan; b. April 12, 1859, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada; d. August 14, 1933, Boyne
City, Michigan; m. (2) HUGH KENNEDY, Abt. 1935; b. Abt. 1873; d. July 12, 1948.

13. HARRIET3 REEDER (EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE)
was born Abt. 1840 in Ontario, Canada, and died February 12, 1912 in Lake City, Michigan.
She married JOHN J. POLLARD Abt. 1863. He was born Abt. 1838 in York County, Ontario,
Canada, and died Aft. 1880 in Lake City, Michigan.

Children of HARRIET REEDER and J OHN POLLARD are:

35. i. WILLIAM S.4 POLLARD, b. 1864; d. April 6, 1951, Lake City, Michigan.
ii. LILLIAN POLLARD, b. 1866; d. January 27, 1892; m. B . LOUKS.

14. WASHINGTON3 REEDER (EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD,

JOHNE) was born July 4, 1841 in Ontario, Canada, and died November 3, 1908 in Pomona, Los
Angeles County, California. He married (1) WIHELMINA LOUCKS December 24, 1873 in
Traverse City, Grand Traverse, Michigan, daughter of GEORGE LOUCKS and T IGRIS
MCFARLAND. She was born 1853, and died September 6, 1886. He married (2) EMMA J.
WHITNEY January 4, 1888 in Lake City, Michigan. She was born 1852, and died March 21,

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1889. He married (3) SABRA ANNA BARRY November 25, 1890 in Lake City, Michigan,
daughter of DAVID BARRY and C LARA GARBUTT. She was born 1867 in Bath, Canada, and
died 1901 in Watertown, New York.

Children of WASHINGTON REEDER and WIHELMINA LOUCKS are:

i. GARFIELD4 REEDER, b. June 1872; d. October 19, 1881, Lake City, Michigan.
ii. CHARLES JASPER REEDER, b. October 5, 1875, Lake City, Michigan; d. November 8, 1875, Lake
City, Michigan.
36. iii. CLARIBELL EVALYN REEDER, b. July 7, 1876, Lake City, Michigan; d. August 19, 1957, Lake
City, Michigan.
iv. ALMIRA REEDER, b. August 12, 1878; d. August 15, 1878, Lake City, Michigan.

Children of WASHINGTON REEDER and S ABRA BARRY are:

37. v. LILLIAN MAY4 REEDER, b. April 8, 1893, Michigan; d. November 16, 1971, Inglewood, Los
Angeles County, California.
38. vi. WASHINGTON RANDALL GARBUTT REEDER, b. October 22, 1891, Lake City Michigan; d.
November 27, 1964, Owosso, Michigan.

15. SELINA3 REEDER (EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE)
was born Abt. 1846 in Ontario, Canada, and died February 1, 1929 in Richmond, Virgina. She
married CHARLES T. REEDER Bef. 1875 in Pennsylvania, son of JOB REEDER and J ANE
SCOTT. He was born Abt. 1840 in Erie, Pennsylvania, and died Aft. 1920 in Erie,
Pennsylvania.

Children of SELINA REEDER and C HARLES REEDER are:

39. i. ALICE4 REEDER, b. Abt. 1868, Canada.
ii. EDWIN G. REEDER, b. Abt. 1870, Pennsylvania.
iii. GUY HAMILTON REEDER, b. Abt. 1872, Pennsylvania; d. January 6, 1948.

16. JANE ELIZABETH3 REEDER (MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC,

ISAACD, JOHNE) was born February 11, 1837, and died December 16, 1892. She married
MOSES MAWSON February 5, 1855 in McGillivray Township, Ontario, son of JOHN MAWSON
and E LIZABETH BARKER. He was born September 1833 in England, and died January 6, 1929.

Children of JANE REEDER and M OSES MAWSON are:

i. SARAH4 MAWSON, b. November 3, 1855.
ii. ELIZABETH MAWSON, b. February 14, 1857; d. December 17, 1889.
40. iii. SUSANNAH MAWSON, b. September 26, 1858; d. March 19, 1899.
iv. MARIA MAWSON, b. July 28, 1860.
v. JANE MAWSON, b. February 3, 1862; d. April 25, 1924.
41. vi. MOSES MAWSON, b. November 13, 1863, Ontario, Canada; d. November 16, 1948.
vii. MARY MAWSON, b. April 20, 1866.
viii. JOHN MORELAND MAWSON, b. September 10, 1869; d. September 20, 1869.
ix. MORELAND MAWSON, b. August 7, 1875.
x. ELI MAWSON, b. October 17, 1876.

17. SUSANNA3 REEDER (MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD,

JOHNE) was born August 12, 1838 in Ontario, Canada, and died May 1, 1909 in McGillivray
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Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada. She married JAMES YOUNG, son of JOHN
YOUNG and P OLLY COOK. He was born November 26, 1843 in Ontario, Canada, and died
April 19, 1923 in McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.

Children of SUSANNA REEDER and J AMES YOUNG are:

i. JOHN MORELAND4 YOUNG, b. April 19, 1866.
ii. MARY JANE YOUNG, b. June 4, 1868.
42. iii. SARAH ANN YOUNG, b. April 30, 1873.
iv. SOPHIA E. YOUNG, b. December 18, 1876, Ontario, Canada.
43. v. JAMES E. WILBERT YOUNG, b. April 11, 1881.

18. JOHN3 REEDER (MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE)
was born May 2, 1840 in Markham Townshipo, York County, Ontario, Canada, and died
March 13, 1918 in West McGillivray Township, York County, Ontario, Canada. He married
SARAH JOHNSTON May 1871, daughter of ISAAC JOHNSTON and J ANE MAWSON. She was
born March 24, 1852 in Loweswater, Cumberland, England, and died April 15, 1914 in West
McGillivray Township, York County, Ontario, Canada.

Children of JOHN REEDER and S ARAH JOHNSTON are:

44. i. MOSES4 REEDER, b. March 23, 1872, McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario,
Canada; d. September 4, 1911, West McGillivray Township, York County, Ontario, Canada.
45. ii. FRANCIS REEDER, b. June 22, 1874, Ontario, Canada; d. September 19, 1940.
iii. JEANETTA REEDER, b. 1876; d. October 14, 1913; m. JOSEPH W. LAWSON; b. 1869; d. 1949.

19. ALEXANDER3 REEDER (MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD,

JOHNE) was born July 17, 1841, and died Aft. 1901. He married MARGARET NICHOLS
January 2, 1866 in McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada, daughter of
WILLIAM NICHOLS. She was born March 26, 1841.

Children of ALEXANDER REEDER and M ARGARET NICHOLS are:

i. WILLIAM4 REEDER, b. Abt. 1867.
ii. JOHN REEDER, b. Abt. 1868.
iii. SUSANNA REEDER, b. Abt. 1870.
iv. SALINA REEDER, b. Abt. 1878.
v. ALEXANDER REEDER, b. February 14, 1883; m. GERTRUDE LUTHER, November 28, 1904,
McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada; b. January 3, 1882.
vi. WILLIAM REEDER, b. July 15, 1885.
vii. VERA E. REEDER, b. April 28, 1892.

20. MOSES3 REEDER (MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE)
was born February 2, 1845 in Ontario, Canada, and died July 26, 1935 in McGillivray
Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada. He married ELIZABETH TURNER January 10,
1872 in Ailsa Craig, McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada. She was
born May 26, 1854, and died February 2, 1907 in McGillivray Township, Middlesex County,
Ontario, Canada.

Children of MOSES REEDER and E LIZABETH TURNER are:

i. JOHN WESLEY4 REEDER, b. December 2, 1873.

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ii. CHARLES REEDER, b. January 5, 1875.

46. iii. SARAH MARIA EMMA REEDER, b. January 23, 1876, London, Ontario, Canada; d. January 31,
1960, Wayne, Michigan.
iv. JAPHETH REEDER, b. Abt. 1877; d. March 17, 1894, McGillivray Township, Middlesex County,
Ontario, Canada.
v. JOSEPH REEDER, b. October 19, 1878, McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario,
Canada.
vi. JAMES REEDER, b. April 1, 1881.
vii. FREDERICK T. REEDER, b. September 21, 1886.

Generation No. 4

21. MARION4 REEDER (WILLIAM J.A.3, WILLIAM2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC,
ISAACD, JOHNE) was born April 7, 1883, and died January 29, 1972. She married GLENN R.
RATHBURN. He died 1949.

Children of MARION REEDER and G LENN RATHBURN are:

i. MAXINE5 RATHBURN.
ii. ELEANOR RATHBURN.
iii. GLENNIA RATHBURN, m. UNKNOWN FARRINGTON.

22. NORMAN4 MINTHORN (ELEANOR MARGARET3 REEDER, WILLIAM2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA,

CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born June 1, 1850 in Ontario, Canada, and died in
Ontario, Canada. He married P RISCILLA NANCY PLAYTER, daughter of WATSON PLAYTER
and H ARRIET MOSHIER. She was born December 1854, and died August 24, 1886 in Ontario,
Canada.

Children of NORMAN MINTHORN and P RISCILLA PLAYTER are:

i. SAMUEL5 MINTHORN, b. Abt. 1868.
ii. HARRIET MINTHORN, b. Abt. 1879.
iii. JAS HOWARD MINTHORN, b. August 1886, Ontario, Canada; d. August 1886, Ontario, Canada.

23. WILLIAM ALVY4 MINTHORN (ELEANOR MARGARET3 REEDER, WILLIAM2, MOSES1,

JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born September 4, 1852 in Victoria
County, Ontario, Canada, and died January 13, 1951 in Lake City, Michigan. He married
MARY ANN STONEHOUSE January 5, 1886. She was born April 16, 1868, and died May 5,
1935 in Lake City, Michigan.

Children of WILLIAM MINTHORN and M ARY STONEHOUSE are:

i. DELLA MAE5 MINTHORN, b. January 28, 1887; d. October 9, 1988; m. J OSEPH HENRY ROWE,
June 2, 1913.
ii. ELMER JAMES MINTHORN, b. June 19, 1888, Lake City, Michigan; d. June 6, 1951, Lake City,
Michigan; m. DORTHEA ANTONIO PEDERSEN, August 15, 1915; b. May 13, 1892, Big Rapids,
Michigan; d. April 2, 1976, Cadillac, Michigan.
iii. HAZEL GERTRUDE MINTHORN, b. July 4, 1890; d. April 16, 1892.
iv. WILLIAM CLAIR MINTHORN, b. December 28, 1895; d. August 25, 1959; m. C ATHERINE SMITH.

24. GEORGE NELSON4 TEETS (ELIZABETH3 REEDER, WILLIAM2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA,

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CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born July 31, 1854 in Missouri, and died February
17, 1939 in Yale, Michigan. He married SARAH JAINE LETT October 8, 1875 in Sandusky,
Sanilanc County, Michigan. She was born May 22, 1857 in Ontario, Canada.

Child of GEORGE TEETS and S ARAH LETT is:

i. JOSEPH5 TEETS, b. Abt. 1880; d. August 28, 1951.

25. ELWOOD4 TEETS (ELIZABETH3 REEDER, WILLIAM2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB,

JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born 1869, and died October 13, 1941 in Greenwood
Township, St. Clair County, Michigan. He married ANNA MULLANY. She was born 1877,
and died May 11, 1947 in Greenwood Township, St. Clair County, Michigan.

Child of ELWOOD TEETS and ANNA MULLANY is:

i. DANIEL5 TEETS, b. 1901; d. September 15, 1944, Battle Creek, Michigan.

26. JOSEPH WITNEY4 REEDER (CHARLES3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC,
ISAACD, JOHNE) was born December 6, 1856 in Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario,
Canada, and died March 25, 1929. He married (1) LAVINA DICKSON 1881. She was born
1860, and died January 5, 1893. He married (2) ADDIE DOREMUS Aft. 1893. She was born
Abt. 1871 in Michigan, and died Aft. 1910.

Children of JOSEPH REEDER and L AVINA DICKSON are:

i. ALBERTA5 REEDER, b. Bef. 1893.
ii. UNKNOWN REEDER, b. January 5, 1893; d. 1893, Lake City, Missaukee County, Michigan.

27. WILLIAM LINCOLN4 REEDER (CHARLES3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB,

JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born August 26, 1866 in Mariposa Township, Victoria County,
Ontario, Canada, and died July 4, 1934 in Durban, South Africa. He married MARY HELEN
CREECH Abt. 1896 in Chicago, Illinois, daughter of T HOMAS CREECH and S ARAH NELLIS.
She was born April 28, 1871 in Vienna, Elgin, Ontario, Canada, and died March 13, 1934 in
Durban, South Africa.

Child of WILLIAM REEDER and M ARY CREECH is:

i. EILEEN ADELAIDE5 REEDER, b. August 10, 1910, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa; d.
February 18, 1983, London, England; m. HAROLD ROBERT HENDY, February 8, 1937,
Capetown, Cape, South Africa; b. 1889, London, England.

28. FRED HOWARD4 REEDER (CHARLES3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC,
ISAACD, JOHNE) was born September 2, 1876 in Mariposa Township, Victoria County,
Ontario, Canada, and died May 31, 1945. He married ELLA REYNOLDS October 2, 1900. She
was born Abt. 1876 in Michigan, and died March 8, 1962 in Lake City, Michigan.

Child of FRED REEDER and E LLA REYNOLDS is:

i. FRED RUSSEL5 REEDER, b. August 12, 1908; d. July 16, 1994, Cadillac, Michigan; m. B LANCHE
I. WARD; b. June 4, 1910; d. August 3, 1990.

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29. CHARLOTTE ESTELLA4 REEDER (CHARLES3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB,

JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born February 12, 1878 in Mariposa Township, Victoria
County, Ontario, Canada, and died November 18, 1946 in Beuton Harbor, Michigan. She
married WILLIAM J. ARDIS, son of WILLIAM ARDIS and M ARGARET MELDREW. He was born
May 16, 1877, and died November 24, 1968 in Lake City, Michigan.

Children of CHARLOTTE REEDER and WILLIAM ARDIS are:

i. ELTON BOYD5 ARDIS, b. August 26, 1901; d. October 3, 1901, Lake City, Michigan.
ii. LYSLE R. ARDIS, b. March 26, 1903; d. April 7, 1976, Lake City, Michigan.
iii. DORMAN WILLIAM ARDIS, b. 1905; d. July 30, 1964; m. BEATRICE HARKINS.
iv. DOROTHY ALBERTA ARDIS, b. August 24, 1907; d. February 1976; m. JAMES BOGGS.
v. CHARLES R. ARDIS, b. July 28, 1909, Lake City, Missaukee County, Michigan; d. February 13,
2004, Lake City, Missaukee County, Michigan; m. VIRGINIA HOLLINGSWORTH, August 17,
1946, Frankfort, Michigan; b. November 24, 1913; d. August 24, 1994.
vi. WILLIAM REEDER ARDIS, b. December 3, 1913.
vii. CHARLOTTE ANN ARDIS, b. April 8, 1918; d. July 31, 1974; m. UNKNOWN BRUCE.

30. AGNES4 REEDER (DANIEL3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD,
JOHNE) was born December 2, 1855 in Victoria County, Ontario, Canada, and died August 24,
1941 in Kalkaska County, Michigan. She married JOHN D. RANSOM December 25, 1871 in
Lake City, Michigan. He was born Abt. 1842 in Pennsylvania, and died March 15, 1919.

Children of AGNES REEDER and J OHN RANSOM are:

i. IDA MAY5 RANSOM, b. Abt. 1874, Michigan; m. JOSEPH MIDDLETON.
ii. CHARLES ALBERT RANSOM, b. Abt. 1876, Michigan; d. January 10, 1949; m. M ARIE WERNER; b.
Abt. 1880, Michigan; d. March 11, 1955.
iii. MAE RANSOM, b. Abt. 1883; m. DONALD MCCLOUD.
iv. MAUDE ETHEL RANSOM, b. November 15, 1883, Michigan; d. April 17, 1979; m. H ERMAN
LUCAS, Abt. 1908, Missaukee county, Michigan; b. October 5, 1883, Michigan; d. 1950.

31. GEORGE EMON4 REEDER (DANIEL3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC,
ISAACD, JOHNE) was born July 7, 1858 in Victoria County, Ontario, Canada, and died January
28, 1902 in Duluth, Minnesota. He married AUGUSTA WILHELMINA PIRRUNG June 1, 1879 in
Lake City, Michigan, daughter of UNKNOWN PIRRUNG and WILHELMINA LUX. She was born
December 18, 1862 in Kent County, Michigan, and died April 6, 1938 in Seattle, Washington.

Children of GEORGE REEDER and AUGUSTA PIRRUNG are:

i. MORTON CHRISTIAN5 REEDER, b. July 11, 1880, Lake City, Reeder Township, Missaukee
County, Michigan; d. March 1966, Seattle, Washington; m. I NGA LOUISE LARSON, July 15,
1903, Duluth, Minnesota.
ii. HENRIETTA MABEL REEDER, b. July 29, 1882, Lake City, Reeder Township, Missaukee County,
Michigan; d. March 26, 1969, Seattle, Washington; m. (1) UNKNOWN GORMLEY; m. (2)
WILLIAM BLAINE CHANDLER, August 17, 1910, Butte, Montana; d. Abt. 1915.

32. ORILLA JANE4 REEDER (DANIEL3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC,
ISAACD, JOHNE) was born February 14, 1860 in Ontario, Canada, and died February 14, 1942
in Lake City, Missaukee County, Michigan. She married CHARLES L. OSTRANDER July 29,

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1875 in Lake City, Michigan, son of C.D. OSTRANDER. He was born February 1848 in Orange
County, New York, and died July 9, 1933 in Lake City, Missaukee County, Michigan.

Children of ORILLA REEDER and C HARLES OSTRANDER are:

i. VIOLA C.5 OSTRANDER, b. August 1876, Michigan; d. August 9, 1933; m. D AVID TUCKER; b.
Abt. 1876, Canada.
ii. BERT M. OSTRANDER, b. June 29, 1878, Michigan; d. December 12, 1955, Lake City, Missaukee
County, Michigan; m. ANNA ZEITZ; b. Abt. 1884, Germany; d. July 21, 1946.

33. JOHN CUMLEY4 REEDER (DANIEL3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC,
ISAACD, JOHNE) was born September 18, 1862 in Victoria County, Ontario, Canada, and died
June 28, 1933 in Montclair, San Bernardino County, California. He married LULU BELLE
SHARP April 18, 1894 in Pomona, Los Angeles County, California, daughter of LAWSON
SHARP and M ARY WOOD. She was born September 2, 1872 in Lamar, Barton County,
Missouri, and died November 28, 1931 in Montclair, San Bernardino County, California.

Children of JOHN REEDER and L ULU SHARP are:

i. PAUL HUGH5 REEDER, b. September 1, 1895, Foster, San Diego County, California; d. May 23,
1952, Riverside County, California; m. AGNES MARIE BAKER, September 12, 1920; b. January
13, 1897, Iowa; d. December 26, 1966, Los Angeles County, California.
ii. ARTHUR JOHN REEDER, b. November 12, 1896, Foster, San Diego County, California; d. October
5, 1969, San Bernardino County, California; m. HELEN VENONA ALTER, November 12, 1922; b.
March 22, 1898, Colorado; d. March 19, 1982, San Bernardino County, California.
iii. DON DANIEL REEDER, b. September 18, 1899, Foster, San Diego County, California; d. July 28,
1924, Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California; m. MAYBELLE RUTH COOPER, June 25, 1921;
b. November 17, 1901, Meriden, Connecticut; d. June 13, 1976, Oxnard, Ventura County,
California.
iv. LAWSON DEWITT REEDER, b. August 4, 1901, Montclair, Los Angeles County, California; d.
August 21, 1964, Los Angeles County, California; m. (1) MARY MARQUIS BOOKER, October 22,
1927; m. (2) LINDA CARROLL HARRINGTON, November 25, 1937; b. August 6, 1906; d. May 31,
2004, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California.
v. GEORGE CLIFFORD REEDER, b. December 30, 1905, Montclair, California; d. January 20, 1996,
Claremont, California; m. HAZEL MARGARET HARRISON, October 23, 1938, Montclair,
California; b. July 4, 1912, Hernandez, San Benito County, California; d. March 19, 2004, La
Verne, Los Angeles County, California.
vi. LEWIS THEODORE REEDER, b. October 4, 1907, Montclair, California; d. October 17, 1967, Los
Angeles County, California; m. P AULINE MAE RADER, June 11, 1934; b. March 22, 1913,
Arkansas; d. October 17, 1994, Kern County, California.
vii. STANLEY REEDER, b. June 4, 1909, Montclair, California; m. W ILMA HELEN BROADWATER, July
25, 1931; b. August 8, 1912, Los Angeles County, California; d. November 13, 2002, Lakeport,
California.

34. MARTIN DANIEL4 REEDER (DANIEL3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC,
ISAACD, JOHNE) was born June 23, 1874 in Lake City, Missaukee County, Michigan, and died
January 26, 1953 in Lake City, Missaukee County, Michigan. He married IDA UPDIKE
December 27, 1899 in Lake City, Michigan, daughter of WILLIAM UPDIKE and E MILY
DEMARANVILLE. She was born August 28, 1873 in Pierson, Michigan, and died February 20,
1969 in Tallahassee, Florida.

Children of MARTIN REEDER and I DA UPDIKE are:

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i. MARY EMILY5 REEDER, b. February 3, 1901, Lake City, Michigan; d. October 24, 1997,
Tallahassee, Florida.
ii. DAN MARTIN REEDER, b. June 14, 1903; d. March 15, 1999, Redding, Shasta County,
California; m. M ARGARET LINN, May 27, 1939; b. February 29, 1912, Carroll, Wayne County,
Nebraska; d. June 9, 2003, Mercy Medical Center, Redding, Shasta County, California.
iii. IDA LOUISE REEDER, b. July 10, 1905; d. November 9, 1914, Boyne City, Michigan.
iv. NANCY ELIZABETH REEDER, b. August 19, 1908, Boyne City, Michigan; d. January 6, 1984, San
Pedro, Los Angeles County, California; m. JOHN REARDON; d. Bef. 1984.
v. DOROTHY DEE REEDER, b. 1912; m. (1) FRANK KOLAR; m. (2) RALPH JACOBS.

35. WILLIAM S.4 POLLARD (HARRIET3 REEDER, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB,
JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born 1864, and died April 6, 1951 in Lake City, Michigan. He
married ALICE SLADE.

Children of WILLIAM POLLARD and ALICE SLADE are:

i. FRANK5 POLLARD.
ii. JUNE POLLARD.
iii. PERCY POLLARD, b. March 22, 1896.
iv. KENNETH RANDALL POLLARD, b. July 2, 1899; d. October 25, 1968.
v. ROBERT POLLARD.
vi. MANLEY POLLARD, b. July 9, 1906; d. November 19, 1975.
vii. DONALD POLLARD.

36. CLARIBELL EVALYN4 REEDER (WASHINGTON3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB,

JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born July 7, 1876 in Lake City, Michigan, and died August 19,
1957 in Lake City, Michigan. She married CHARLES PERCY CHICK May 14, 1902. He was
born Abt. 1880 in Michigan, and died August 20, 1958 in Lake City, Michigan.

Children of CLARIBELL REEDER and C HARLES CHICK are:

i. RICHARD ARMAND5 CHICK, b. September 21, 1902; d. August 1978; m. (1) A LICE MARGARET
FLOODQUIST; b. 1902; d. 1935; m. (2) A NN CARLSON.
ii. HARRY NESBIT CHICK, b. 1907; d. February 5, 1966, Lake City, Michigan.
iii. RUTH L. CHICK, b. January 13, 1909; d. January 15, 1998; m. R AYMOND PETTENGILL.
iv. THOMAS MYRL CHICK, b. September 26, 1916; d. April 4, 1986, Lake City, Michigan; m. M ARIE
E. SMITH; b. February 18, 1920; d. April 28, 1978, Lake City, Michigan.

37. LILLIAN MAY4 REEDER (WASHINGTON3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB,

JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born April 8, 1893 in Michigan, and died November 16, 1971 in
Inglewood, Los Angeles County, California. She married HERMAN FRAZIER. He was born
September 16, 1887 in Mio, Michigan.

Children of LILLIAN REEDER and H ERMAN FRAZIER are:

i. ROBERT EDWARD5 FRAZIER, b. June 17, 1915, Watertown, New York; d. August 1978; m. JANE
ELIZABETH THOMPSON, April 16, 1944, Miami, Florida.
ii. KATHLEEN FRAZIER, b. May 24, 1921; m. LYLE OWEN JEVONS, November 11, 1949, Whittier,
California.

38. WASHINGTON RANDALL GARBUTT4 REEDER (WASHINGTON3, EAMON2, MOSES1,

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JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born October 22, 1891 in Lake City
Michigan, and died November 27, 1964 in Owosso, Michigan. He married ANNA MAE KENT.

Children of WASHINGTON REEDER and ANNA KENT are:

i. WAYNE R.5 REEDER, d. March 12, 1944, Honolulu, Hawaii.
ii. HELEN REEDER, b. June 24, 1923, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan; d. May 1977, Saginaw, Michigan; m.
DONALD C. GRIFFIN; b. August 2, 1920; d. September 6, 1996, Saginaw, Michigan.

39. ALICE4 REEDER (SELINA3, EAMON2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD,
JOHNE) was born Abt. 1868 in Canada. She married PERRY AURORA GIBSON, son of DANIEL
GIBSON and M ARIAH CONANT. He was born August 25, 1855 in Crossingville, Erie County,
Pennsylvania, and died December 30, 1907.

Child of ALICE REEDER and P ERRY GIBSON is:

i. OPALE R.5 GIBSON, b. Abt. 1893, Pennsylvania.

40. SUSANNAH4 MAWSON (JANE ELIZABETH3 REEDER, MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA,

CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born September 26, 1858, and died March 19,
1899. She married THOMAS APPLETON.

Child of SUSANNAH MAWSON and T HOMAS APPLETON is:

i. ELIZABETH5 APPLETON.

41. MOSES4 MAWSON (JANE ELIZABETH3 REEDER, MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA,

CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born November 13, 1863 in Ontario, Canada, and
died November 16, 1948. He married SARAH HANNA PICKERING. She was born March 24,
1868 in Ontario, Canada.

Children of MOSES MAWSON and S ARAH PICKERING are:

i. ELIZABETH5 MAWSON, b. 1888, McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada; d.
December 17, 1889, McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.
ii. WILBERT MAWSON, b. September 28, 1892; d. August 30, 1962.
iii. ALICE E. MAWSON, b. April 9, 1894.

42. SARAH ANN4 YOUNG (SUSANNA3 REEDER, MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB,
JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born April 30, 1873. She married MATTHEW ENGLAND.

Child of SARAH YOUNG and M ATTHEW ENGLAND is:

i. LAURA ETHEL5 ENGLAND, m. LORNE RUBEN FINKBEINER.

43. JAMES E. WILBERT4 YOUNG (SUSANNA3 REEDER, MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA,

CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born April 11, 1881. He married EDITH EMMA
HORNER March 6, 1903, daughter of WILLIAM HORNER and S ARAH GORMLEY. She was
born April 2, 1878.

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Children of JAMES YOUNG and E DITH HORNER are:

i. LLOYD LAVERNE5 YOUNG.
ii. IDA ALICE YOUNG.
iii. ELSIE EDITH YOUNG, d. 1990, Parkhill Union Cemetery, McGillivray Township, Middlesex
County, Ontario, Canada; m. WILLIAM HAROLD BROPHEY; b. August 10, 1902.
iv. RAYMOND WILBERT YOUNG, b. June 6, 1923; d. February 8, 1973; m. U NKNOWN GEROMETTE.

44. MOSES4 REEDER (JOHN3, MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC, ISAACD,
JOHNE) was born March 23, 1872 in McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario,
Canada, and died September 4, 1911 in West McGillivray Township, York County, Ontario,
Canada. He married MARY ANNIE MUNROE November 28, 1893 in Corbett, McGillivray
Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada, daughter of ARCHIBALD MUNROE. She was
born March 6, 1874 in West McGillivray Township, York County, Ontario, Canada, and died
1950.

Child of MOSES REEDER and M ARY MUNROE is:

i. CLARA MUNROE5 REEDER, b. December 26, 1894, Ontario, Canada.

45. FRANCIS4 REEDER (JOHN3, MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB, JOSEPHC,

ISAACD, JOHNE) was born June 22, 1874 in Ontario, Canada, and died September 19, 1940.
He married CHARLOTTE A. LAWSON. She was born February 13, 1875 in Ontario, Canada,
and died 1963.

Children of FRANCIS REEDER and C HARLOTTE LAWSON are:

i. ELSIE ETHEL5 REEDER, b. July 11, 1911, McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario,
Canada; d. January 10, 1972, Stephen Township, Huron County, Ontario, Canada; m. DANIEL
COOPER MCCURDY, April 14, 1931, Huron County, Ontario, Canada; b. May 7, 1902, Stephen
Township, Huron County, Ontario, Canada; d. May 11, 1979, Stephen Township, Huron
County, Ontario, Canada.
ii. GEORGE ELMER REEDER, b. 1903; d. 1952; m. M ATILDA HOULDEN; b. 1904.
iii. JOHN REEDER, b. April 28, 1908; d. September 22, 1966.
iv. LINA REEDER.

46. SARAH MARIA EMMA4 REEDER (MOSES3, MORELAND2, MOSES1, JOSEPHA, CHARLESB,
JOSEPHC, ISAACD, JOHNE) was born January 23, 1876 in London, Ontario, Canada, and died
January 31, 1960 in Wayne, Michigan. She married JOHN FRANCIS DURR January 1, 1896 in
McGillivray Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada, son of JOHN DURR and S ARA
LARKIN. He was born August 23, 1858 in Yorkshire, England, and died September 9, 1949 in
Wayne, Michigan.

Children of SARAH REEDER and J OHN DURR are:

i. FRANCIS EDGAR THORTON5 DURR, b. February 16, 1897.
ii. EARL RUSSEL DURR, b. November 29, 1899, Parkhill, Ontario, Canada; d. August 21, 1989; m.
CLARA AGNES MCCABE; b. December 14, 1901, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; d. September 1976.

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Ancestors of Elizabeth Randall

Generation No. 1

1. Elizabeth Randall, born February 8, 1805 in Pennsylvania; died June 26, 1886 in Lake City, Michigan.
She was the daughter of 2. Asa Randall and 3. Mary Collins. She married (1) Eamon Reeder Abt. 1830 in
Canada. He was born March 31, 1809 in Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, and died October 6, 1885 in Lake
City, Michigan. He was the son of Moses Reeder and Catherine Moreland.

Generation No. 2

2. Asa Randall, born 1774 in Pennsylvania; died in Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada. He was
the son of 4. Comly Randall and 5. Mary Phinney. He married 3. Mary Collins 1799.
3. Mary Collins She was the daughter of 6. Elijah Collins and 7. Rachel Webster.

Children of Asa Randall and Mary Collins are:

i. Rachel Randall, born October 5, 1799; married John Hollingshead September 29, 1819 in Whitchurch
Township, York Co., Ontario, Canada; born December 17, 1795 in Whitchurch Township, York
County, Ontario; died November 3, 1831.
ii. Joseph Randall, born March 12, 1803.
1 iii. Elizabeth Randall, born February 8, 1805 in Pennsylvania; died June 26, 1886 in Lake City, Michigan;
married Eamon Reeder Abt. 1830 in Canada.
iv. Edward Randall, born June 3, 1807; died March 8, 1877 in Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada;
married Susannah Millard March 16, 1834 in Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada; born May
12, 1814 in Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada; died August 21, 1888 in Newmarket, York
County, Ontario, Canada.
v. Jonathon Randall, born August 18, 1809 in Pine Orchard, York County, Ontario, Canada.
vi. Agness Randall, born August 6, 1811.
vii. Comely Randall, born December 17, 1813; died December 4, 1872 in Pine Orchard, York County,
Ontario, Canada; married Elizabeth Penrose March 11, 1839 in Markham Township, York County,
Ontario; born October 28, 1818 in Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario, Canada; died April
12, 1891 in Pine Orchard, York County, Ontario, Canada.
viii. William Randall, born October 20, 1817.

Generation No. 3

4. Comly Randall, born December 9, 1738; died 1801 in Muncy Township, Pennsylvania. He was the son
of 8. Nicholas Randall and 9. Agnes Comly. He married 5. Mary Phinney December 21, 1763.
5. Mary Phinney, born Abt. 1735.

Children of Comly Randall and Mary Phinney are:

i. Jonathan Randall, married (1) Martha Collins; married (2) Sarah Collins Abt. 1808.
ii. Agnes Randall, born 1766 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; died August 18, 1843 in Pine
Orchard, York County, Ontario, Canada; married William Lundy 1795; born June 1, 1770 in
Hunterdon, New Jersey.
iii. Phebe Randall, born September 25, 1770; died December 24, 1855 in Pine Orchard, York County,
Ontario, Canada; married Henry Widdifield January 23, 1805.
iv. Mary Randall, born 1772; married Joseph Widdifield.
2 v. Asa Randall, born 1774 in Pennsylvania; died in Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada; married
Mary Collins 1799.
vi. Edward Randall, born February 21, 1776.
vii. Joseph Randall, born May 25, 1778; died 1825 in Canada; married Huldah Wasley March 18, 1801;
born 1783; died 1857.
viii. Elizabeth Randall, born November 18, 1780.

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6. Elijah Collins, born Abt. 1733. He married 7. Rachel Webster November 10, 1763 in Hunterdon, New
Jersey.
7. Rachel Webster

Children of Elijah Collins and Rachel Webster are:

3 i. Mary Collins, married Asa Randall 1799.
ii. Sarah Collins

Generation No. 4

8. Nicholas Randall, born Abt. 1710 in Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; died 1783
in Moreland Township, Pennsylvania. He married 9. Agnes Comly January 27, 1738.
9. Agnes Comly, born February 20, 1713 in Pennsylvania; died February 22, 1779 in Pennsylvania. She
was the daughter of 18. Henry Comly and 19. Agnes Heaton.

Child of Nicholas Randall and Agnes Comly is:

4 i. Comly Randall, born December 9, 1738; died 1801 in Muncy Township, Pennsylvania; married Mary
Phinney December 21, 1763.

Generation No. 5

18. Henry Comly, born October 25, 1674 in Bedminster, Somersetshire, England; died March 16, 1727 in
Moreland Township, Pennslyvania. He was the son of 36. Henry Comly and 37. Joan Tyler. He married 19.
Agnes Heaton October 17, 1695 in Middletown Meeting, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
19. Agnes Heaton, born February 9, 1677 in Settle, York, England; died December 30, 1743 in Bucks
County, Pennsylvania.

Children of Henry Comly and Agnes Heaton are:

9 i. Agnes Comly, born February 20, 1713 in Pennsylvania; died February 22, 1779 in Pennsylvania;
married Nicholas Randall January 27, 1738.
ii. Robert Comly, born June 12, 1704 in Byberry, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; died March 1770 in
Horsham Township, Pennsylvania.

Generation No. 6

36. Henry Comly He married 37. Joan Tyler.

37. Joan Tyler

Child of Henry Comly and Joan Tyler is:

18 i. Henry Comly, born October 25, 1674 in Bedminster, Somersetshire, England; died March 16, 1727 in
Moreland Township, Pennslyvania; married Agnes Heaton October 17, 1695 in Middletown Meeting,
Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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Ancestors of Elizabeth Bateman

Generation No. 1

1. Elizabeth Bateman, born April 14, 1837 in Canada; died April 1, 1865 in Oakwood, Victoria County,
Ontario, Canada. She was the daughter of 2. George Bateman and 3. Jane Penrose. She married (1) Daniel
Reeder February 15, 1855. He was born June 24, 1833 in Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada, and
died April 26, 1912 in Lake City, Michigan. He was the son of Eamon Reeder and Elizabeth Randall.

Generation No. 2

2. George Bateman, born October 28, 1810 in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England; died March 31, 1869 in
Oakwood, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. He was the son of 4. William Bateman and
5. Lydia Norman. He married 3. Jane Penrose March 2, 1834.
3. Jane Penrose, born 1816 in Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; died April 11, 1865 in Mariposa
Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. She was the daughter of 6. Thomas Yarnell Penrose and 7.
Mary Taylor.

Children of George Bateman and Jane Penrose are:

i. Mary Bateman, born December 22, 1834.
ii. William Bateman, born February 7, 1836 in Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; died February 3, 1908;
married Nancy Varnum; born Abt. 1843; died June 28, 1903.
1 iii. Elizabeth Bateman, born April 14, 1837 in Canada; died April 1, 1865 in Oakwood, Victoria County,
Ontario, Canada; married Daniel Reeder February 15, 1855.
iv. Rachael Bateman, born September 1, 1838; married Charles Butcher.
v. John Merrick Bateman, born June 8, 1840 in Victoria county, Ontario, Canada; died June 3, 1921 in
Chicago, Illinois; married Margaret Morgan; born May 29, 1849 in Victoria County, Ontario, Canada;
died February 21, 1883 in Bowesmont, Pembina, North Dakota.
vi. David Bateman, born May 3, 1844 in Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; died
February 19, 1886 in Grand Forks, North Dakota; married Rebecca Reader February 27, 1866 in
Methodist Episcopal Church, Port Perry, Ontario, Canada; born April 29, 1845 in Ontario, Canada;
died May 30, 1931 in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
vii. Lydia Jane Bateman, born April 1, 1846 in Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada.
viii. Francis Bateman, born January 29, 1848.
ix. Barbara Ann Bateman, born June 25, 1849; married Myron H. D. Silver.
x. George Arthur Bateman, born August 12, 1852; died February 10, 1933; married Elizabeth Janet Mara.

Generation No. 3

4. William Bateman, born September 3, 1786 in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England; died in Youlgreave,
Derbyshire, England. He was the son of 8. John Bateman and 9. Ann Millard. He married 5. Lydia Norman
December 22, 1806 in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England.
5. Lydia Norman, born 1785 in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England; died April 16, 1823 in Youlgreave,
Derbyshire, England. She was the daughter of 10. George Norman.

Children of William Bateman and Lydia Norman are:

i. William Bateman, born August 21, 1801.
2 ii. George Bateman, born October 28, 1810 in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England; died March 31, 1869 in
Oakwood, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; married (1) Jane Penrose March 2,
1834; married (2) Eleanor Doughty Abt. 1865.
iii. Mary Ann Bateman, born 1813.
iv. Hannah Bateman, born 1819.
v. Francis Bateman, born March 3, 1822.

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6. Thomas Yarnell Penrose, born Abt. 1792 in Roaring Creek, Columbia County, Pennsylvania; died
September 17, 1871 in Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. He was the son of 12. Isaac
Penrose and 13. Rachael Yarnell. He married 7. Mary Taylor April 12, 1815.
7. Mary Taylor, born Abt. 1800; died Abt. 1868 in Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario,
Canada. She was the daughter of 14. David Taylor and 15. Elizabeth Shotwell.

Children of Thomas Penrose and Mary Taylor are:

3 i. Jane Penrose, born 1816 in Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; died April 11, 1865 in Mariposa
Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; married George Bateman March 2, 1834.
ii. Rachel Penrose
iii. David Penrose
iv. Richard Penrose
v. Charles Penrose
vi. Joseph Penrose, born 1822 in Whitchurch Twp, York Co., Ontario; died November 21, 1910 in
Oakwood, Mariposa Twp., Ontario.
vii. Mary Ann Penrose, born Abt. 1827; married Charles Conner January 29, 1849 in Mariposa Township,
Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; born Abt. 1825.

Generation No. 4

8. John Bateman, born January 27, 1760. He married 9. Ann Millard.

9. Ann Millard

Child of John Bateman and Ann Millard is:

4 i. William Bateman, born September 3, 1786 in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England; died in Youlgreave,
Derbyshire, England; married Lydia Norman December 22, 1806 in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England.

10. George Norman, born Abt. 1751 in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England; died Abt. 1837 in Youlgreave,
Derbyshire, England.

Child of George Norman is:

5 i. Lydia Norman, born 1785 in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, England; died April 16, 1823 in Youlgreave,
Derbyshire, England; married William Bateman December 22, 1806 in Youlgreave, Derbyshire,
England.

12. Isaac Penrose, born July 27, 1757 in Maiden Creek, Berks Co., Pennsylvania; died August 3, 1825 in
Newmarket,York County, Ontario, Canada. He married 13. Rachael Yarnell.
13. Rachael Yarnell, born December 28, 1759 in Roaring Creek, Pennsylvania; died August 30, 1836 in
Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada. She was the daughter of 26. Francis Yarnell and 27. Mary
Lincoln.

Children of Isaac Penrose and Rachael Yarnell are:

i. Isaac Penrose, Jr., born in Roaring Creek, Columbia Co., Pennsylvania; died January 15, 1843 in
Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario, Canada.
ii. Peter Penrose
6 iii. Thomas Yarnell Penrose, born Abt. 1792 in Roaring Creek, Columbia County, Pennsylvania; died
September 17, 1871 in Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada; married Mary Taylor
April 12, 1815.
iv. Mary Penrose, born January 6, 1792 in Roaring Creek, Columbia Co., Pennsylvania; died December 27,
1846; married John Merrick January 24, 1811.
v. Joseph Penrose, born May 31, 1796 in Roaring Creek, Columbia Co., Pennsylvania; died June 27, 1882
in Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario, Canada; married (1) Harriet Playter June 1, 1818 in
Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario, Canada; born May 14, 1799; died April 7, 1852 in
Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario, Canada; married (2) Sylvia Ann Rose July 8, 1864 in
East Gwillumbury, York County, Ontario, Canada; born Abt. 1826.

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vi. Martha Penrose, born in Roaring Creek, Columbia Co., Pennsylvania; died February 15, 1856 in
Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada.
vii. Margaret Penrose, born November 30, 1800 in Roaring Creek, Columbia Co., Pennsylvania; died
November 14, 1861.
viii. Jesse Penrose, born May 14, 1807 in Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario, Canada.

14. David Taylor He married 15. Elizabeth Shotwell.

15. Elizabeth Shotwell

Child of David Taylor and Elizabeth Shotwell is:

7 i. Mary Taylor, born Abt. 1800; died Abt. 1868 in Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario,
Canada; married Thomas Yarnell Penrose April 12, 1815.

Generation No. 5

26. Francis Yarnell, born July 27, 1719 in Willistown Twp., Chester County, Pennsylvania; died Abt.
1781 in Augusta Twp., Northold County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of 52. Peter Yarnell. He married 27.
Mary Lincoln May 10, 1743 in Oley Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
27. Mary Lincoln, born September 27, 1719 in Amity, Berkshire, County, Pennsylvania; died 1769 in
Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of 54. Mordecai Lincoln and 55. Hannah Salter.

Child of Francis Yarnell and Mary Lincoln is:

13 i. Rachael Yarnell, born December 28, 1759 in Roaring Creek, Pennsylvania; died August 30, 1836 in
Newmarket, York County, Ontario, Canada; married Isaac Penrose.

Generation No. 6

52. Peter Yarnell

Child of Peter Yarnell is:

26 i. Francis Yarnell, born July 27, 1719 in Willistown Twp., Chester County, Pennsylvania; died Abt. 1781
in Augusta Twp., Northold County, Pennsylvania; married Mary Lincoln May 10, 1743 in Oley
Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

54. Mordecai Lincoln, born April 24, 1686 in Norfolk, MA; died May 12, 1736 in Amity, Pennsylvania.
He married 55. Hannah Salter.
55. Hannah Salter

Children of Mordecai Lincoln and Hannah Salter are:

27 i. Mary Lincoln, born September 27, 1719 in Amity, Berkshire, County, Pennsylvania; died 1769 in
Pennsylvania; married Francis Yarnell May 10, 1743 in Oley Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
ii. Deborah Lincoln
iii. Mordecai Lincoln
iv. Sarah Lincoln
v. Hannah Lincoln
vi. John Lincoln, died 1788.

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Ancestors of Lulu Belle Sharp

Generation No. 1

1. Lulu Belle Sharp, born September 2, 1872 in Lamar, Barton County, Missouri; died November 28,
1931 in Montclair, San Bernardino County, California. She was the daughter of 2. Lawson Sharp and 3.
Mary Phillips Wood. She married (1) John Cumley Reeder April 18, 1894 in Pomona, Los Angeles County,
California. He was born September 18, 1862 in Victoria County, Ontario, Canada, and died June 28, 1933 in
Montclair, San Bernardino County, California. He was the son of Daniel Reeder and Elizabeth Bateman.

Generation No. 2

2. Lawson Sharp, born June 23, 1828 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; died May 16, 1888 in Lamar,
Barton County, Missouri. He was the son of 4. William H. Sharp and 5. Barbara Hunter. He married 3.
Mary Phillips Wood November 26, 1854.
3. Mary Phillips Wood, born July 11, 1830 in Casey County, Kentucky; died August 10, 1883 in Lamar,
Barton County, Missouri. She was the daughter of 6. Abraham Wood and 7. Patsey Martha Wilson.

Children of Lawson Sharp and Mary Wood are:

i. Clara Alice Sharp, born October 1855 in Illinois; died May 2, 1936 in Barton County, Missouri;
married (1) William H. Finley October 30, 1876 in Lamar, Barton County, Missouri; born April 3,
1843 in Macoupin County, Illinois; died January 13, 1893 in Lamar, Barton County, Missouri; married
(2) John L. Harness October 18, 1900 in Lamar, Barton County, Missouri; died May 21, 1943 in
Lamar, Barton County, Missouri.
ii. Lloyd W. Sharp, born 1857 in Illinois; died 1931; married Mary Frost; born Abt. 1862 in Illinois.
iii. Laura Ann Sharp, born January 16, 1859 in Illinois; died February 22, 1942 in Los Angeles County,
California; married Edgar Lewis Parrish October 22, 1874 in Lamar, Barton County, Missouri; born
Abt. 1853 in Barton County, Missouri.
iv. Mary Ella Sharp, born December 22, 1863 in Illinois; died September 8, 1950 in Ventura County,
California; married John Clark Powell Abt. 1881; born Abt. 1847 in Tennessee; died March 25, 1912 in
San Bernardino County, California.
v. Robert Wood Sharp, born January 12, 1866 in Illinois; died May 25, 1950 in Los Angeles County,
California; married Anna Belle Gullic; born August 5, 1873 in Illinois; died March 3, 1942 in Los
Angeles County, California.
vi. Norah Sharp, born Abt. 1868 in Illinois; died March 22, 1884 in Central Township, Barton County,
Missouri.
vii. Emma Sharp, born January 29, 1870 in Lamar, Barton County, Missouri; died March 30, 1946; married
Preston Mills March 13, 1892 in Los Angeles County, California; born July 17, 1861; died November
1, 1941.
1 viii. Lulu Belle Sharp, born September 2, 1872 in Lamar, Barton County, Missouri; died November 28,
1931 in Montclair, San Bernardino County, California; married John Cumley Reeder April 18, 1894 in
Pomona, Los Angeles County, California.

Generation No. 3

4. William H. Sharp, born June 13, 1799 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; died June 20, 1875 in
Sharpsburg, Christian County, Illinois. He was the son of 8. John Sharp and 9. Winfred Kirk. He married 5.
Barbara Hunter October 21, 1819 in Union County, Tennessee.
5. Barbara Hunter, born November 9, 1798 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; died August 26, 1838 in
Scottsville, Macoupin County, Illinois. She was the daughter of 10. Henry Hunter and 11. Barbara Bolinger.

Children of William Sharp and Barbara Hunter are:

i. Elizabeth Sharp, born October 23, 1820 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; died February 17, 1909 in
Carrolton, Greene County, Illinois; married Joseph Montgomery June 9, 1839 in Macoupin County,

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Illinois.
ii. John Sharp, born November 23, 1822 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; died September 20, 1913 in
Sharpsburg, Illinois; married Emeline Redfern September 9, 1849 in Sharpsburg, Illinois; born 1828 in
Macoupin County, Illinois; died October 25, 1880 in Sharpsburg, Illinois.
iii. Henry Hunter Sharp, born December 20, 1824 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; died February 7, 1890
in Christian County, Illinois; married Clarinda Redfern June 26, 1851 in Macoupin County, Illinois;
born September 26, 1833 in Scottsville, Macoupin County, Illinois; died February 15, 1929 in
Sharpsburg, Illinois.
iv. Winifred Sharp, born July 26, 1826; died April 2, 1876; married Gabriel Hurt.
2 v. Lawson Sharp, born June 23, 1828 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; died May 16, 1888 in Lamar,
Barton County, Missouri; married Mary Phillips Wood November 26, 1854.
vi. George Riley Sharp, born January 3, 1830; died July 29, 1887; married Susan Hanon September 28,
1856; born February 19, 1838.
vii. Louisa Sharp, born 1832; married John Fair January 11, 1855 in Macoupin County, Illinois.
viii. William Newton Sharp, born December 18, 1833 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; died December 26,
1910 in Missouri; married Martha A Minnis October 11, 1857 in Illinois.
ix. Barbara Sharp, born 1836 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; married Thomas J. Fair.
x. Polly Sharp, born 1837 in Macoupin County, Illinois; married Wesley Henderson December 5, 1854 in
Litchfield, Montgomery County, Illinois.

6. Abraham Wood, born January 25, 1782 in Virginia; died August 25, 1835 in Casey County, Kentucky.
He married 7. Patsey Martha Wilson November 27, 1821 in Barren County, Kentucky.
7. Patsey Martha Wilson, born Abt. 1786 in Kentucky; died July 20, 1850. She was the daughter of 14.
Thomas Wilson and 15. Esther Walker.

Children of Abraham Wood and Patsey Wilson are:

i. Betsey Ann Wood, born November 11, 1822 in Casey County, Kentucky; died October 7, 1896 in
Illinois; married Benjamin Drake.
ii. Julia Ann Wood, born March 2, 1824.
iii. Clarinda Walker Wood, born October 6, 1825 in Casey County, Kentucky; died December 7, 1911 in
Rhodes, Marshall, Iowa; married James Greene Allen January 25, 1848 in Liberty, Casey County,
Kentucky; born November 1825 in Liberty, Casey County, Kentucky.
iv. Rebecca Frances Wood, born January 24, 1827 in Casey County, Kentucky; died January 25, 1848.
v. Abraham Wilson Wood, born December 4, 1828 in Casey County, Kentucky.
3 vi. Mary Phillips Wood, born July 11, 1830 in Casey County, Kentucky; died August 10, 1883 in Lamar,
Barton County, Missouri; married Lawson Sharp November 26, 1854.
vii. Susan Emiline Wood, born August 19, 1832 in Casey County, Kentucky; married Joseph Butcher; born
Abt. 1828.
viii. Minerva Isabelle Wood, born April 11, 1834 in Casey County, Kentucky; married John Tucker; born
Abt. 1834 in Kentucky.

Generation No. 4

8. John Sharp, born August 21, 1777 in Montgomery County, Illinois; died August 20, 1838 in Macoupin
County, Illinois. He was the son of 16. George Sharp and 17. Catherine Elizabeth. He married 9. Winfred
Kirk August 28, 1798 in Montgomery County, Illinois.
9. Winfred Kirk, born March 3, 1778 in Montgomery County, Illinois; died August 30, 1836 in
Macoupin County, Illinois. She was the daughter of 18. William Kirk and 19. Agnes Cain.

Child of John Sharp and Winfred Kirk is:

4 i. William H. Sharp, born June 13, 1799 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; died June 20, 1875 in
Sharpsburg, Christian County, Illinois; married (1) Elizabeth Wilson; married (2) Barbara Hunter
October 21, 1819 in Union County, Tennessee.

10. Henry Hunter, born 1768 in Plum Run, Washington County, Maryland; died August 1826. He was
the son of 20. John Hunter and 21. Barbara Bowman. He married 11. Barbara Bolinger.
11. Barbara Bolinger, born 1769; died December 3, 1846.

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Child of Henry Hunter and Barbara Bolinger is:

5 i. Barbara Hunter, born November 9, 1798 in Claiborne County, Tennessee; died August 26, 1838 in
Scottsville, Macoupin County, Illinois; married William H. Sharp October 21, 1819 in Union County,
Tennessee.

14. Thomas Wilson, born March 13, 1765 in Botecourt County, Virgina. He married 15. Esther Walker
October 28, 1791 in Botecourt County, Virgina.
15. Esther Walker She was the daughter of 30. William Walker and 31. Mary Unknown.

Child of Thomas Wilson and Esther Walker is:

7 i. Patsey Martha Wilson, born Abt. 1786 in Kentucky; died July 20, 1850; married Abraham Wood
November 27, 1821 in Barren County, Kentucky.

Generation No. 5

16. George Sharp, born July 25, 1755 in Virginia; died September 25, 1833 in Macoupin County, Illinois.
He was the son of 32. John George Sharp and 33. Anna Marie Loy. He married 17. Catherine Elizabeth.
17. Catherine Elizabeth

Child of George Sharp and Catherine Elizabeth is:

8 i. John Sharp, born August 21, 1777 in Montgomery County, Illinois; died August 20, 1838 in Macoupin
County, Illinois; married Winfred Kirk August 28, 1798 in Montgomery County, Illinois.

18. William Kirk, born Abt. 1754 in Fauquier County, Virginia; died Abt. 1837 in Scottville, Macoupin
County, Illinois. He married 19. Agnes Cain.
19. Agnes Cain

Child of William Kirk and Agnes Cain is:

9 i. Winfred Kirk, born March 3, 1778 in Montgomery County, Illinois; died August 30, 1836 in Macoupin
County, Illinois; married John Sharp August 28, 1798 in Montgomery County, Illinois.

20. John Hunter He married 21. Barbara Bowman.

21. Barbara Bowman

Child of John Hunter and Barbara Bowman is:

10 i. Henry Hunter, born 1768 in Plum Run, Washington County, Maryland; died August 1826; married
Barbara Bolinger.

30. William Walker, born Abt. 1725; died Abt. 1810 in Botetourt County, Virgina. He was the son of 60.
Henry Walker. He married 31. Mary Unknown.
31. Mary Unknown

Children of William Walker and Mary Unknown are:

15 i. Esther Walker, married Thomas Wilson October 28, 1791 in Botecourt County, Virgina.
ii. Sarah Walker, married Isaac Snodgrass.
iii. Mary Walker
iv. Henry Walker
v. Nancy Walker, married Thomas Harmon.
vi. William Walker, Jr., born March 1759; died November 28, 1838 in Ohio.
vii. George Walker, married Mary Adams.
viii. John H. Walker, married Sarah Susannah Givens.
ix. James Walker, married Jane Cardin.

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Generation No. 6

32. John George Sharp, born Abt. 1722 in Palatinate, Germany; died Abt. 1789 in Orange County, North
Carolina. He was the son of 64. Aaron Sharp. He married 33. Anna Marie Loy.
33. Anna Marie Loy

Child of John Sharp and Anna Loy is:

16 i. George Sharp, born July 25, 1755 in Virginia; died September 25, 1833 in Macoupin County, Illinois;
married Catherine Elizabeth.

60. Henry Walker

Child of Henry Walker is:

30 i. William Walker, born Abt. 1725; died Abt. 1810 in Botetourt County, Virgina; married Mary
Unknown.

Generation No. 7

64. Aaron Sharp, born Abt. 1699 in Palatinate, Germany; died Abt. 1756 in Draper's Meadow, Virgina.

Child of Aaron Sharp is:

32 i. John George Sharp, born Abt. 1722 in Palatinate, Germany; died Abt. 1789 in Orange County, North
Carolina; married Anna Marie Loy.

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Appendix A

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Obituary of Emon Reeder from the Canadian Post -Lindsay, Ontario October 30, 1885
page 8, Column 2

OAKWOOD
(Correspondence of the Post.)

OBITUARY. Mr. Charles Reeder returned on the 26 th inst. from Lake City, Michigan,
whither he had been called to the dying bed of his father, the late Emon Reeder, but
unfortunately he arrived there about two hours too late to see him alive. The many
friends here unite in regretting his death, for although he had passed by some years the
span of life allotted to our race, he was hale and hearty up to the recent attack that
carried him off. Mr. Reeder was a man not soon to be forgotten. Free, hearty and
generous in his nature, his acquaintances were all his friends, and being a pioneer
settler here on lots 15 and 16, 6th concession, where he soon by carefulness and
industry acquired a competence, he was well known all over this region and was always
willing with a free hand to help all deserving projects. In religion he was attached to the
Society of Friends; in politics an ardent reformer, not waiting to see how this one or that
one decided but was reliable every time. At one time he came all the way from Michigan
to vote for Hon. S.C. Wood in a prospectively close election. Subjoined is an obituary
notice from the Lake City Era: -

Emon Reeder of Lake City, Mich., died on the 6 th of Oct., 1885, of cancer of the stomach in
the 77 th year of his age. Mr. Reeder was born in Bucks county , Pennsylvania, in the year 1809
and with his father's family moved from there to Canada in the year 1816. Here he grew up and
resided until the spring of the year 1875, at which time he removed to this place, where he
resided until the time of his death. At the age of about 21 years Mr. R. was married to Miss
Elizabeth Randall, who has since shared his joys and sorrows, and now survives him "only
waiting to be delivered from the weight of years." The best years of his life, as has already been
intimated, were spent in Canada, where he had by energy, industry and frugality, acquired a fine
property a valuable farm, which he owned at the time of his death. Here too, he reared a family
of children, six of whom survive him, viz., Chas Reeder of Oakwood, Ont.; the Messrs. Daniel,
Washington and William Reeder, and Mrs. J. Pollard of Lake City, Mich., who are in every
respect the pioneers of this county; and Mrs. Lina Reeder of Edinboro, Pa.; all of whom are
honored citizens of the respective communities in which they live. Mr. Reeder had always been
a man of wonderful constitution and vitality, and until within three months of his death, did not
know what it was to be sick. In the early stages of his illness the best local physicians were
employed without benefit; later on he was induced to go to Ann Arbor for treatment, where, in
due time, the medical authorities announced that he had cancer of the stomach, and was
incurable. He was then only permitted to reach home, as it were, when he was called upon,
even when life was still sweet, to leave his wife, children, relatives, friends and neighbors, and
depart hence to the untried scenes of another world. His funeral was conducted from his late
residence on Thursday afternoon. The public school was closed, business generally was
suspended during the services, and the populace, almost as one man, turned out to pay a last
tribute of respect to the honored dead.

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Appendix B

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Missaukee Republican
Lake City, Michigan
Thursday, May 2, 1912

DEATH OF DANIEL REEDER

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Early Pioneer and Founder of Village

Passed Away Last Friday Evening.

Daniel Reeder, founder of the village of Lake City, died Friday evening at nine o'clock at his
home on North Main St. in this village after an eight months' illness, the greater part of which
time he was confined to his bed. Death was due to a general breaking down in his advanced age.

Daniel Reeder was born in Whitchurch township, Ontario, June 24, 1833, making his age at
death 78 years, 10 months and 2 days. When but a few years of age his family moved to
Mariposa, Ontario, where he lived until coming to Michigan in 1867.

After spending about a year in Lapeer and Mecosta counties, he came to Missaukee county
May 18, 1868, where he has since continuously resided, his life being closely identified with the
history and development of this village and county.

He was one of the first four to make homes in the then unbroken territory at present included
in the boundaries of Missaukee county. For fourteen miles a road had to be chopped through the
forest from the termination of the Big Rapids - Falmouth road to the present site of Lake City.
Here he erected a log house very close to the site of the present residence of Chas. L. Ostrander.
This was the first house erected in Lake City.

Mr. Reeder became at once the owner of 320 acres of land described as the north half of
Section 6, homesteading 160 acres and purchasing 160 acres. The west portion of this tract is
now included in the corporate limits of the village.

Supplies and mail in those early days were brought at irregular intervals from Traverse City
but in 1872 a postoffice was established in Lake City with Mr. Reeder as the first postmaster.
Mail was then secured regularly once each week from Cadillac, the postmaster acting as the
carrier.

Mr. Reeder was the chairman of the first county board of supervisors which met at a farm two
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location being near what is now known as the Arbuckle mill site.

In the somewhatclose and exciting contest which marked the removal of the county seat from
Falmouth in 1873, much of Lake City's success was due to the energy and perseverance of Mr.
Reeder.

In 1888, he established the local water works system which he managed and owned until 1894
when he sold to F. N. McClellan. Later the property again came into his hands at different times
until sold to the present owner. For some years he was also one of the principal stockholders in
the Missaukee Co. Bank.

For seventeen years, the condition of Mr. Reeder's health had compelled his spending his
winters in the south where Mrs. Reeder accompanied him each year. The past winter, however,
he was unable to make the trip.

Mr. Reeder was first married to Elizabeth Bateman and to this union were born five children,
three of whom, Mrs. Agnes Ransom and Mrs. Orilla J. Ostrander of this place, and John C.
Reeder of Ontario, California, survive him. George E. was killed in a railroad accident at Duluth
in 1901 and Miss Elizabeth died at the age of thirteen years.
Several years after Mrs. Reeder's death he was again married, Feb. 29, 1872, to Miss Mary A.
Quick. To this union were born two children, Martin D. Reeder and Mrs. William H. White,
both of Boyne City, who, with the widow, survive him.

Mr. Reeder had been a consistent and faithful member of the local M. E. church and one of its
leading officials practically the entire time since its organization. He was always greatly
interested in church work.

He was a man of utmost rectitude of character, signally true and sincere in all the relations of
life and well merited the great affection and high esteem in which he was held by family and
friends. His name will ever appear on the honor roll of sterling pioneers who contributed so much
to the upbuilding of our county.

Funeral services held at M. E. church Sunday afternoon at three o'clock with interment in the
local cemetery. The services were conducted by Rev. Jenkins, assisted by the Rev. Jenkins,
assisted by the Rev. Sidebotham.

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Card of Thanks

To the Epworth League of the Methodist Episcopal Church:

We want to thank you for the beautiful flowers you sent to us in sympathy. It was a great
comfort to know our friends remembered our loved one and ourselves.
Very sincerely,
Mary Reeder
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Martin D. Reeder
William Reeder
Orilla Ostrander
Agnes Ransom
Mary Louise White

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Appendix C

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OBITUARY
Canadian Christian Advocate May 31, 1865.

Died in the Township of Mariposa on the 1st of April, Elizabeth Reader, after an
illness of nine days. Sister Reader was converted to God about seven years ago, under
the labors of the Rev. J. Cook united with our church at that time, and continued a
member until it pleased God to remove her to another and we trust a better world. May
the God of all our mercies sustain her husband and friends, and kindly care for the little
ones she has left behind.

Also, Jane wife of George Bateman and mother of the above in the 49th year of her age,
and the 30th year of her connection with the church.

Sister Bateman and her husband were among the first who settled in Mariposa. Their
house was always open to receive the servants of God. She died on the 11th of April,
after an illness of five days, brought on no doubt by over-exertion at he time of her
daughter's illness and death. Sister Bateman was an affectionate wife and mother. She
leaves an affectionate husband and a large family to mourn, but they sorrow not as
those who have no hope, believing their loss to be her gain.

Friend after friend departs

Who has not lost a friend?
There is no union here of hearts
That finds not here an end.
J. P. Sparrow

Research Note : J. Cook was minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Oakwood from 1858 to 1860
and J.P. Sparrow was minister in 1864. At the time of the above obituary, J.M. Simpson was minister
(1865-1867). Rev. Simpson probably wrote at least part of the obituary. Source: Irwin, Ross W., 1984,
Mariposa, The Banner Township, A History of the Township of Mariposa, Victoria County, Ontario: Ross
Irwin Enterprises, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

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Appendix D

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OBITUARY

LAKE CITY, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1914

THE LAST TRIBUTE

Mrs. Mary Reeder, Lake City's Pioneer Bride, Laid to Rest.

Loved by Many, Respected and Esteemed by all, her Death is Sincerely Mourned by a Large
Number

Mrs. Mary Reeder, who died March 25th at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W.H. White of
Boyne City, was brought here and on Saturday morning was laid to rest in the cemetery here
beside her husband. Services were held in the M.E. church, conducted by her pastor, Rev. C.S.
Jenkins, who delivered a touching eulogy of the departed.

Mary Quick was born in New Jersey and grew to young womanhood there, a daughter of a
Presbyterian pastor of that that state, Rev. John J. Quick. When she was a young woman, the
family emigrated to the wilds of Northern Michigan, settling in Grand Traverse county. Dollars
were none too plentiful in the pioneer homes of the late sixties or early seventies, and Mary took
up the then poorly paid work of teaching a small school, and boarded at the home of a man
named Clark.

Sometime in 1871, Daniel Reeder, the pioneer resident of Lake City, who had not long before
homesteaded the land on which the village was afterwards built, while going back and forth
between his home here and Traverse City which was the nearest post office and market town,
stopped at the Clark home, and met the fair young school ma'am and straightway wooed and later
won her. They were married at her home, her father performing the ceremony, on the 29th day of
February 1872, so that they only celebrated a wedding anniversary once in four years. She was at
once brought to Lake City as a bride, and shared the hardships, the laughter and the tears of the
life of the pioneers of this locality. The life was crude, and all things were new and raw, but she
was always a brave soul, not easily daunted, able usually to carry her own burden smiling, and
help some other person not so fortunate or perhaps not so brave. Two children came in a few
years, to add to her joys and labor, Martin D., now of Boyne City and Alpena, and Louise, now
Mrs. Wm. White of Boyne City.

Here in Lake City, she spent the rest of her life, save for spending the winters late years in a
milder climate. Here she raised her children, and saw them marry and find homes of their own.

Her husband's health failed several years before his death, and to her other duties she added
that of constant nurse, business manager and devoted attendant to her husband. Possessed of
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seen.

Mrs. Reeder was one of the founders of the Methodist church here, and has ever since been
one of the thoroughly dependable mainstays of the organization. In fair weather or foul, she was
one of the faithful who could always be depended upon to be loyal to the pastor and the best
interests of the church.

The "Old Settlers Society" of this county owes its existence largely to her interest and labor.
She was probably the originator of the idea, in the first place, and gave her time and much work
to making its meetings successful and interesting. She was the historical secretary of the society
during its lifetime, and to her fell the melancholy duty each year of reporting the vacancies made
by its ranks each year by death, and now a successor must be chosen to perform the sad service
for her.

Possessing a strong character, decided opinions, backed by a strong will, her unfailing tact
nevertheless enabled her to preserve friendship with all, and while yielding no principle she
deemed worth while, she was always willing to concede non-essentials, and never allowed her
personal claims to recognition to stand in any one else's way.

The high personal esteem in which Lake City people held her, was indicated at her funeral.
On the busiest day of the week, practically every business house was represented by its head, and
the church was crowed, while the casket and altar were buried in flowers, the gifts of many
people.

Mrs. Reeder would have been 64 years of age in May next. While her health had not been of
the best for some years, no immediate danger was anticipated by any. She was spending the
winter as usual at St. Petersburg, Florida, when word was received that she was seriously ill. Her
son Martin and his wife hastened to her side, and Mrs. W.H. White was notified at Vancouver,
B.C., whither she had accompanied her husband on a business trip. She started at once, and was
met in Florida by the party, on their way north, the physicians there having advised them to take
the patient home, since she wanted to go. Reaching Boyne City, every attention was given her,
and she seemed to rally, and her recovery was regarded as probable, until two or three hours
before her death. It appeared to be a general breaking down, from which she had not sufficient
vitality to rally.

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Appendix E

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Page 64-65, Missaukee County Family Histories, 1983, Missaukee County Historical Society

Daniel Reeder and Family

Daniel Reeder and the Reeder family were among the county's earliest and most influential
settlers. Daniel was born in New Market, York County, Canada, June 24, 1833. In 1836, the
family moved to Oakwood, Victoria County, Canada. Daniel homesteaded in Missaukee County
in 1868. His brothers, Charles, William, Washington and sister Harriet Pollard, and his parents,
Eamon and Elizabeth also homesteaded in and around the Lake City area.

Daniel Reeder married Elizabeth Bateman on February 15, 1855. Their children were Agnes
Ranson, George, John, Orilla Ostrander and Lizzie. Elizabeth died April 1, 1865.

In the autumn of 1867, Mr. Reeder came to Big Rapids and remained there during the winter.
On May 1, 1868, he and four others organized themselves into a company to come to Missaukee
County to look for a home. They came as far as McDonald's Camp on the Clam River, a mile and
a half below Pinhook, (Falmouth), which was the end of the road. From there they walked,
arriving at Muskrat (Missaukee) Lake on May 12 and stayed all night on it's banks. The next day,
Mr. Reeder looked over the adjoining country and determined to locate beside Muskrat Lake.
His companions laughed at his decision but could not disuade him.

Taking a compass course, Mr. Reeder arrived at Traverse City on the night of May 17. On the
18th, he located the north half of section 6. His new land fronted for a half mile on the east
shores of the lake.

On June 16, the five, reinforced by William Reeder, returned to the area with wagon and team.
Next forenoon, they cut logs and put up a shanty, 14 by 20, one story high, which was the first
building of any kind built by a white man on Muskrat Lake. The next morning, three started for
Traverse City where William Reeder located his land.

Dan and William remained here during the summer and in the fall returned to Canada. In
October, he was accompanied by his children and his brother Washington, who also located a one-
quarter section and filed on it at Traverse City.

Sometime in October of 1868, Daniel and his brother moved his family to Michigan. At Traverse
City, Mr. Reeder purchased provisions for them, and one horse and a two-wheel cart on which to
transport their belongings to Lake City.

There was no extra room in the cart and Agnes trekked the distance on foot. The first day out her
feet became so sore and swollen that she could no longer keep going. They stayed in Mayfield
that night and the next day. One night was spent in the wilderness around a camp fire and the
evening of the last days travel found them at the home of M.D. Richardson, whose home was in
Pioneer Township.

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They arrived in Lake City the following day about noon, very tired but happy they had reached
home. Agnes fed the hungry family pancakes.

Daniel married Mary Quick on February 29, 1872. Mary's father, John, her brother, Peter and her
sister, Susan Quick all homesteaded in the region. Daniel and Mary had two children: Martin
Daniel, believed to be the first white child born in the Lake City area, and Mary Louisa. Claribel
Reeder, daughter of Washington and Wilmina Reeder was the first girl to be born in Lake City.
She was called and continued to be the Belle of the town. Many of the older homes in Lake City
were built by Charles Reeder's son, Joseph.

Daniel had his land surveyed and measured out 129 lots. This plat he called Lake City and placed
the same upon the official records for the newly formed Missuakee County on October 12, 1874.

As more settlers came, the Reeder cabin became the post office for all newcomers. The mail was
brought in from Traverse City by settlers who returned with provisions. The mail averaged once
every two months.

A little corn and grain was raised. An old maple stump left by the Indians, the top burned out in
the shape of a bowl and a round stone served to grind grain and make corn meal. This was used
to make their break - a Johnny Cake or cornmeal. Deer and fish were a source of fresh meat.

The Reeder progeny continued to live in the Lake City area. They have helped us transform the
wilderness Daniel first encountered into a bustling community.

-Mary Reeder

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Appendix F

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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL

RECORD of NORTHERN MICHIGAN
Containing Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent
and Representative Citizens,
Together with Biographies and Portraits of all the
Presidents
of the United States.

CHICAGO:
RECORD PUBLISHING CO.
1895
______________________________________________________________________________

Washington Reeder

WASHINGTON REEDER is one of the pioneers of Missaukee County, having lived here
continuously since 1868. When he first came to this locality the country was a wilderness, and
only two settlers had preceded him. He took up a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres from
the Government, and set to work in earnest to clear it of the thick timber with which it was
encumbered. His property now numbers one hundred and seventy-five acres, two miles distant
from Lake City. In politics Mr. Reeder is a Republican, but he has never been an office-seeker.
Nevertheless, he has been frequently urged to serve in a public capacity, and has held the position
of Highway Commissioner. He was Street Commissioner for several years, and was the first
County Treasurer, afterward filling the office by appointment for two years, and then being
elected for the succeeding term.

The paternal grandfather of our subject, Moses Reeder, was a native of New York State, and of
German descent. A man of large physique and fine appearance, he is said to have resembled
General Washington, and once, when a little boy, had the privilege of offering the "Father of his
Country" a drink of water. His life work was then farming. In his religious views he was a
member of the Society of Friends, and was noted for his piety, and also for his devotion to his
country. He lived to the extreme old age of ninety-six years, his death occurring in Canada, at the
home of his son Emon. The gentleman last mentioned, the father of Washington Reeder, was
born in Pennsylvania, as was also the lady whom he chose for his wife, namely, Miss Elizabeth
Randall. To them were born four sons and two daughters, one of whom has passed to the better
land. They are Charles, Daniel, Harriet (wife of John Potter, of this city), Washington, William,
and Selina, Mrs. Charles Reeder. Mrs. Elizabeth Reeder is a daughter of Asa Randall, who was
born in Pennsylvania, and was of German descent. He followed agricultural pursuits, and lived to
a good old age, dying in Canada. Religiously he was a Quaker, and was quiet and unassuming in
manner, just and true to both friends and enemies. Emon Reeder moved to Canada with his father
when seven years old, and in 1873 came to Lake City, where he made his home the remainder of
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his life, his death occurring in the fall of 1885, at the age of seventy-eight years. His wife, who
survived him until the following June, passed away when in her eighty-first year. Like their
parents before them, they were members of the Society of Friends.

The birth of our subject occurred in Victoria County, Canada, July 4, 1841. When twenty-seven
years of age he came to Lake City, and has since lived in this community. December 25, 1873. he
married Wilhelmina, daughter of George and Tigris (McFarland) Locks. Four children were born
of their union, three of the number dying in infancy, the only one surviving being Clarabelle
Evalyn. The mother died in 1886, in the faith of the Presbyterian Church, with which she had
long been identified. January 4, 1888, Mr. Reeder married Emma Whitney, an own cousin of his
first wife. She was a member of the Congregational Church, and was a most estimable lady. Her
death occurred March 1, 1889. November 25, 1890, Mr. Reeder married his present wife, whose
maiden name was Anna Barry. Two children have come to bless their union: Washington Randall
Garbutt and Lillian May. Mrs. Reeder is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Her parents were
David and Clara Ann (Garbutt) Barry. The family enjoys the friendship and esteem of a large
circle of acquaintances, to whom they extend a generous hospitality.

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Appendix G

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Daniel Reeder, born in 1833 in York County, Canada, is credited with the founding of Lake City,
Michigan. Following is the journal of Martin D. Reeder, son of Daniel Reeder. Mary Reeder,
Martin's daughter, compiled it following her father's death in 1953. It was never formalized. The
original document was received from Katherine (Frazier) Jevons (grandniece of Daniel Reeder)
who in turn received it from the Research Librarian at the Missaukee County Library in 1986.
The Librarian happened to be Mary DuVall, whose great grandmother was Eleanor (Reeder)
Minthorn. Eleanor was Daniel's cousin.

The document was put into digital format in September 1998. I have maintained the original
style and grammar and have only corrected the most obvious of misspellings. Words in Italics
were hand written on the otherwise typed original document.

Wes Reeder (2nd great grandson of Daniel Reeder)

Several times I had asked my father, Martin D. Reeder, to put into writing some of the
things he remembered about early Lake City, Michigan. But he always put me off.
However, shortly before his death he gave me a few notes. They were evidently written
over a period of time, as he happened to recall things. Consequently, there is some
repetition in the notes, and sometimes the sequence does not seem logical.
The following is that part of his record which concerns Lake City. I have tried not to
change his manner of writing. Where I could not make out a word I have used a ?. The
words in parenthesis are my own insertions in the effort to make his meaning clear.

Mary Reeder

Received 8/15/86, Lake City, MI

From Mary DuVall, Librarian
Her great grandmother was Eleanor Reeder Minthorn

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Early Lake City

From Notes Left By
Martin D. Reeder
1874 - 1953

Up in New Market, Ontario, Canada, lived a family named Reeder. XWilliam the
father of English stock and *** his wife, of Quaker descent. When they came to Canada,
or where from, no records are available. They were farmers. Their children were Daniel,
Charles, Washington, William, Hattie, Lina. What the general set up of this family was
are unknown or forgotten. It appears that Daniel was married and had four children,
George, John, Agnes and Orilla.
Sometime about the year 1867, perhaps on account of the large family, or crowded
conditions, and the fact that the war between the states was concluded, and too for the
reason that his wife had died leaving these four small children, Daniel, the elder, got the
urge to seek another location, this in the states, in Michigan. Land was cheap and he
was sturdy and could hew out a new home for his family.
Probably in 1868 he came to Michigan alone, walking, as there was no other means
of travel and, crossing at what was known as Sarina, Ont., he came on west to Grand
Rapids, then north to Big Rapids, the furtherest northern settlement. He appeared to
stay close to this point, going out from there to different points. During 1869 a party went
fishing north and also exploring for homesteads to a lake called on the Stateland plot as
Muskrat in Missaukee Co. Camping on the east bank of this lake in a blinding rain the
party all,
XEamon? Wife Elizabeth Randall. Buried in old Cemetery, L.C. MI:
except Dan, became discouraged and decided to return. After taking a washtub of fish,
Dan, by the use of his plats and compass and taking a liking to his surroundings,
located 160 acres for his homestead. Then by compass course, he traveled through the
woods to the Government Land Office at Traverse City, 65 miles away, and filed on his
section of land. At some time during the year he returned to Canada and the next year,
1870, with his brother Wash, returned to the new homestead on Muskrat Lake and
Wash, also liking the prospect, located a ¼ section and filed on it at Traverse City.
Returning to the homesteads they proceeded to perform the necessary homesteaders
improvements of clearing a small plot and erecting a small log cabin.
Returning to Canada the brothers made their preparations to return to the
homesteads with their household goods and Dan's family. There was not much to
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move, and with an ox team their journey back in the spring of 1871 was long and tedious
especially as they had to build a road the greater part of the distance north of Big
Rapids. When they finally arrived and got settled the brothers gave their attention to
clearing their land to a point at least where they might grow enough for their sustenance.
Several trips were made to Traverse City for provisions and necessities all of which
had to be carried on their backs through the woods and by compass route as there were
no roads or trails.
It seems that during one of these trips Dan met in Traverse City a young woman who
came from New York and was teaching school at a small hamlet called Northport on the
north end of one of the arms of Grand Traverse Bay.
Probably during the early spring of 1872 they were married and came back to
Muskrat Lake to live. Her name was Mary Quick, and her father, a minister in New York
State.
Along about this time also William and Charles Reeder came and located and filed
on land close to the other boy and later brought their families or started them on their
new locations. Thus a settlement was formed and called Reeder perhaps for no other
reason than its being a natural conclusion of the times and places as they spring up.
All of the men were large, strong, sturdy and hard workers, knew the woods and farms
and how to handle themselves. All of the wives of these men also exercised their
homestead right and thus 320 acres each became the holdings of each (?) family. The
girls' husbands all, except Lina, also came. The children's father and mother (Eamon
and his wife?) and finally Dan's Wife's father, brother and sister (John, Peter and Susan
Quick?) All of these people and their homesteads and children made a sizeable
community by the lake, about 20 homesteads of 6400 acres, all timber. Of Dan's family,
two children were born, a boy, Martin and a daughter, Louisa.
Martin grew as all boys beside the lake and woods, largely fishing and hunting with
the usual Boy-work. No schools but such learning as they had was from his mother until
some time later when a log school was built and a teacher engaged. But his education
did not seem to amount to much and while he may have absorbed something it was not
worth much. While there were hardships, as all pioneers find, there were no Indians or
Indian wars. No fears of this nature. Mother used to take us children when she went to
pick blackberries; she tied us to trees so we would not wander away and get lost. They
had little of the things homes needed. Being 65 miles from a supply point and no roads,
everything had to be packed in on the back. They raised a little corn and grain. And old
maple stump left by the Indians, the top burned out in the shape of a bowl, and a round
stone served to grind grain and make corn meal. This was our bread- a Johnnycake, or
cornbread. We had plenty of fish and a few years after settling, deer came in and this
supplied our meat, or venison, in ample amounts.
Many hundred thousand big Canada geese came over and stopped on our lake.
Dad shot many every year. One broke his wing and could not fly away. Mother took it in
and splinted the injury and nursed it back. We clipped the feathers so it could not fly. It
stayed around the log cabin and whenever geese flew it would go down to the shore and
call the flocks in and they would come into the yard and hold a convention.
In late fall Father would have 12 to 15 deer dressed and hanging in the barn for
winter. Quite a lot of this was jerked, or smoked and salted, dry and hard. A chunk
carried in the pocket made a most excellent meal of lunch. Or bread and butter
sandwiches in winter, toasted on a small fire in the woods with jerked venison made a
meal that could not be equaled.
Some other settlers came into our county of Missaukee to the east and south. In
those early days, few remained. XDan was born 6/23/74. To the best knowledge of the
times he was the first white child (born) in the county. This has been disputed and there
have been claims to the contrary but, right or not, he carries this distinction.
Dad finally managed to bring a team of horses from Canada, large, heavy, young,
and powerful. They had much to do with making prosperity. One died about 15 years
later:, the other, XXTip, lived for 28 years, the pride of the county and pet of everyone.
This team with others followed and helped to clear the lands and haul produce to the
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camps.
The county was largely what is considered hardwood lands with heavy stands of
maple, birch, beech, elm, basswood, and hemlock cedar swamps and tamarack. But
surrounding was the immense cork white pine forests. Perhaps this was the inducement
for the fortunes of those days were in Pine. In fact, no moves were made to cut
hardwood for hardwood would not float and could not be driven down the rivers while
pine could. Pine was soft and light and easily worked. Hardwood was not. The light
cedars were choice for shingles and posts and telephones poles, also for railroad ties.
But at that time no telephones were in the north woods.
XMartin Daniel - Mart XXBob?

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Gradually the camps came in with the crews of lumber jacks. In the fall they built their
camps and prepared for winter's work. Built roads and rollways and tote roads for
provisions and supplies. The firms from the mills of Muskegon, Manistee, Ludington,
and Saginaw sent in their crews.
The winters were hard, 25 to 40 below zero, 3 to 5 foot of snow or more. The work
was extremely hard. Men came in the fall and stayed all winter, going out to the town in
the spring for a short period of 30 days and then for the river drives to the saw mills.
Food was ? in the early days. Potatoes, salt pork, beans, coffee, bread, syrup. The first
friedcake I ever ate was in a camp. The camps multiplied until thousands of men were
in the woods and on the drives.
The little settlement grew and was called Reeder. The county was organized and the
temporary county seat located there. More settlers coming into the east and south sides
of the county made demands for the county seat to be located at Falmouth, or as known
then, as PinHook.
For the times it was hotly contested and the possibility of its loss to Reeder caused
serious alarm. Lumbering was then beginning. As the time for the vote was placed in
late spring, Dan Reeder conceived the idea of majority voting. The county vote was
carefully canvassed and he hired over 100 lumber jacks who had come from the winter's
work to stay in his town. His agreement was to pay them $1:00 per day and board for the
time necessary to qualify as voters and to then vote for Reeder's town as the county
seat. It worked as the vote for Reeder's town made the county seat permanent and it is
yet.
Daniel Reeder from the very first became the leader and financial head of the county,
if there were such a thing. He held a few minor offices but always preferred not to, letting
some other person hold the office and he to be the power behind the throne.
One morning Dad and Uncle Wash saw a deer swimming across the lake and took
after it in a canoe. Overtaking it, they cut its throat and brought it back. Of course, they
cut plenty portions for their friends.
Some disgruntled person had them arrested for taking a wild deer in open water. But
to the jury Dad maintained that it was a tame deer, not wild, and the jury could not prove
it was wild.
Dad always provided hard wood maple and beech stove wood cut 16 inches long for
the town people and $1:00 a cord delivered. It was cut in the winter, dried out, hauled to
our place, and piled up.
I had wanted a gun for a long time and Dad said if I would pile up the wood, about
1000 cords, I could have the gun. At the then prices for guns this was ½¢ (a cord?) for
piling wood. My chum, Will Ross, helped me. When we had the job completed we
received an old army musket, bored out, with a large hammer using hat caps, and an old
iron ram rod, gauge 12. We hunted, one carrying the gun, the other the powder and
shot, and changed about.
We would, through the week, collect all the stray dogs in the town ready for the
Saturday hunt. Two boys with 10 or 15 Dogs and one gun, but few dogs ever got to the
woods.
Of course we hunted small game and never got very much.
On one trip to some old camps we stopped to pick blackberries for eats. I happened
to be carrying the gun, held between my legs while I picked berries. Soon something
drew my attention and in looking ahead saw a black bear also picking berries. He had
not seen me.
My first impulse was to run. Then the idea (came?) that Will would brag and make
fun of me. So I carefully drew the iron ram rod out and slid it down the barrel. The gun
was only loaded with fine shot. But slowly lifting it and cocking it, I got a bead on the
bear and pulled the trigger. The bear went one way and I the other. Finally when I got
my courage back we went in carefully to see the results. We never found the ram rod
but did find blood on the bushes. The ram rod went clear through the bear. We tracked
him for several miles and found him dead.
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One of the sports and quarrels of two boys under these circumstances was good.
Trying to get even with the other. One way was to load the gun for the other to shoot. A
large charge of powder and ramming the shot down so the gun would kick and make a
(lame?) shoulder. I had fixed a load for Will one day, but for some reason he smelled a
rat and did not shoot it off. So when we got home the gun had the same load in it and it
was stood in a corner the same as usual.
Next morning it happened some ducks lit in the lake close to the house and Dad,
seeing them, grabbed the first gun handy which was mine and started for the ducks. He
took a dug out canoe and paddled as close as he could and picked up the gun and fired.
It kicked him out of the boat. And when he got back------.
But he got no ducks.
Those old days we did not have much variety of foods. For meat we had venison:;
sometimes a goose, duck, or partridge. In the fall it was usual to kill 10 to 15 deer, dress
them and hang them in the barn to freeze for winter use. Some were smoked for jerky. -
salted and smoked hard but very pleasing to the taste and very nourishing. We carried
a piece of jerky in our pockets for lunch.
The first apple and first orange I ever saw was at Christmas time. One each year. I
never had a pair of boots or shoes till 8 years old, with red tops and copper toes and the
leather hard as the Hubs of Hell.
Lake City was a one street town. Growing. Buildings largely wooden. In 1888 on the
night of July 4 the fire started and when it burned out 48 buildings and contents with the
brick Malone hotel were in ashes. No fire protection except the back woods bucket
brigade- a team of men filling pails from the lake and passing them on to the fire.
The next spring Dad made a deal with the town and was granted a franchise to build
a water works plant for town needs.
He built a good plant and I had considerable to do laying mains and foundations.
Thykoff (?) wood pipe, a pine log bored out for a 6 inch pipe and bound with band iron,
tarred and covered with sawdust. This was 60 years ago and the mains are as good and
strong as when laid. As a boy I had much to do with this building and the operation for
many years following. The plant was on Dad's home lots in the center of town and are
still there. A water tank and electric lights have since been added for the towns uses.
Missaukee Lake, which was first called Muskrat Lake, was a small, beautiful sheet of
water. Fine, clean sand shores on at least ¾ of it, the balance a little soft but not mud.
It was full of fine fish, pickerel mostly, bass and sun fish. Early days Dad had 2000
eel fingerlings planted which grew to 6 feet long. They but rarely bit a hook but we
speared them. After skinning them and stretching their hides on a thin(?) shingle to dry
they made the finest kind of tough strings for harness repairs and strong ties.
We boys used to cut fat pine wood and with a basket jack in the bow of a boat we lit
the wood and at night went along the shore and speared, sometimes two wash tubs full
of fine fish. Great sport and no one hurt.
Killing a deer in the water was great sport, even if it had some dangers. In early
spring a deer's (?) is hollow and they float up better. I have killed several and even had
them smash my canoe and had to swim ashore but tied the dead deer to the canoe and
came back for it. If you don't think a buck deer can put up a tough fight in the water, try
one once. They are fast swimmers and their hoofs can cut through almost anything.
Between horns and hoofs you have some scrap.
Fishing and baling? was my best sport. Barefoot out on a peeled boom stock
slippery beyond any idea--. To catc h a large fish and get him ashore was a problem and
always a wetting and a lost fish.
Running lots was another. The old White Pine days found our lake Muskrat a
splendid holding ground for white pine logs. Some years the lake was so full of logs we
could cross in any direction on the logs. Sometimes we went through and had rough
times getting out. We were splendid at birling or rolling also.
A large slide built at one corner at the mouth of the Mosquito Creek was where logs
were hauled up and loaded on narrow gauge cars for the haul (?) to Clam River.
This road was owned by Cody and Moore., Larry Cody and George W. Moore with
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Nelson Ross as superintendent of woods and logging. Bill Ross was my chum. Many
the trips we made to the banking ground and dumps of logs.
Our lake was a splendid holding body for surplus water to be turned into Mosquito
Creek and on down to Clam River for flooding and splashing out the drive.
One year when it was very high and held for the Big Drive it overflowed the
Waterworks and put fires out from under the boiler. And Ross would not pull the flood
gates. Another year when water was low and Ross needed it for splashes our Town
would not allow him to use the water and put watchmen with rifles to guard the dam.
Ross came to me, a kid, and wanted to know if there should happen to be a fire if I could
blow the fire whistle good and long as I was working at the Waterworks.
Every kid loves a fire so we agreed. Then next night an old blacksmith shop was
loaded with kerosene and set on fire. It made a dandy fire and I pulled the whistle long
and loud.
The men guarding the Dam about a mile and ¼ south of town heard the whistles and
saw the fire and started on a run for town. Ross had a crew of about 300 men and teams
hidden close by and when the watchers left the dam his crew went in and dynamited it
and dredged the banks out for a heavy splash. By morning the lake was down and the
joke was on the town. Ross got his water, his logs out of the Clam and into the
Muskegon.
In the early days lumber work was a hard way of life. As a boy I got on the drive,
bringing down the rear, then on the drive, and breaking rollways. Out early and in late
working in wet, frozen clothes with poor meals and no place to dry out. No wonder men
drank whiskey to keep alive. Wages were $ 16:00 a month and board. Poor at that.
Sow belly beans, molasses, sour bread. Some got $12:00.
Dad was the most forehanded and the real leader of them all. He backed up and
supported everything helpful and progressive, spent his money wisely and freely for the
town and people. The town of Lake City was built on his homestead and laid out by him.
He was director of the little bank and I worked there several years. He was no Politician
but always backed the cleanest side and spent money to buy elections like any true
citizen. Never drank liquor and quit smoking. Mother was sure a good example for him
and a guide. He built the first hotel and when a saw mill came in and went busted he
took it over and ran it for the benefit of the community. He backed every man worth while
and many not so hot. He farmed. Raised prize wheat for seed, sold it at $1:00 a bushel,
full heaped and running over. Clean of all foreign seeds. I know. I had to turn the
fanning (?) at the mill all winter to do it.
He paid his men $1:00 a day and boarded them even when wages was 25¢ and 50¢
a day. But he made them work and he set the pace. Said no man could live on less
than a dollar a day and raise a family. His word was worth more than a bond.
He got the railroad in there and got their right-of-way. When the town voted
$250,000:00 for a ? the land and the bonds were issued he went to Grand Rapids to
deliver them and found the railroad would be built anyway and on a ? so he refused to
deliver them. Abe Stout was with him and on conference they burned the bonds so they
would not have to deliver them. Came back home and told what he had done. He had
no bonds to bring back but people thought that was OK and he was smart. So that
ended that.
I don't know what Dad was like when young but when Mother got through with him he
was a Hell of a good Christian. Built the Methodist ch urch, paid the preacher, clothed
him and his wife and family, fed them and heated their home and built them a parsonage
and of course he led at revivals and always had the preacher in for meals. Mother was
some planner(?).
My first job, as I remember, was in the Missaukee Independent office, a newspaper
published by George Stout. There I learned to set type, and distribute it, operate an old
hand press for hand bills, letter heads, etc. Then on the large Washington lever press
on the weekly publication. All this was gradual. Then the building of advertisements
and a small amount of notes of interest.
The first rotary press was built in Lake City. It was a round maple log, bored out in the
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center and filled with sand. On this was the felt cover with a pipe through the center for
handles. When mounted, we would set the type, lay the paper on it and roll the roller
across. On the next operation the roller was rolled back. This was not much of a
success and was soon discarded and thrown out. Too many smeared pages and too
cumbersome to handle. But in all it was an education. I never had any schooling.to
speak of.
Ron Barker who ran a newspaper at Reed City in those very early days came to Lake
City and started a paper. It was not much but it was a newspaper. He and his wife
decided to take a vacation. I was their printers devil. So he wrote up several weeks
issues of the paper of the things he thought would happen. Run the papers off and
addressed them and tied up each weeks issue in a bundle and put in a barrel. My job
was to take out that weeks issue and mail it.
Next came a job in the Missaukee County Bank. Was put on the books and kept
these and made up bank books. Later was on the cash counter to fill in. Finally the
safe, time locks, and combinations. All this was only more education. Bank customers
always helped to show me how and our cashier, Abe Stout, was all right. I did all the
book work and handled all the cash and Stout handled the loans and collections.
But prior to Abe was a cashier who had a pretty wife and Abe fell for her. Then her
husband died and Abe fired me and took her on in my place. Shortly after she and Abe
left over night and were not heard from for years. He was honest enough for when he
went he took only what was his right to, but he left a note to get me, Mart, who knew the
inside and combinations and time lock. So I was back in the bank.
Just at that time the Republicans took the County elections from the Democrats and
of course the new County Treasurer took the County money to a new bank just started.
This was known and it started a run on our bank. I was alone and (the) Directors (did)
not know how to work the bank. Money was being drawn out fast. It fell to me, a boy, to
handle the situation. A quick check of cash and balance showed a better than average
position but with a run this was something. Began ordering cash from Grand Rapids in
5000:00 lots and Dad rode Old Bob to Cadillac to get it off the 1:35 A M train. Cash went
fast and the last 5000:00 we had at Grand Rapids was ordered in gold. When this came
in it was piled on the counter loose and this stopped the run. People had never seen so
much gold before. They took a look and left the bank. Others who had drawn out their
money, many of them brought it back. They all thought we had the mint behind us.
We had about 9 to 13 saloons and they all prospered. Whiskey was cheap and
every one drank more or less. Thom Dorthy (?) was one saloon keeper and Jim Sharp
another. Both tough fighters. They met on the train from Cadillac to Manton one day
and mixed. The train was stopped while they fought it out. They fought six hours
straight and neither one licked. , but they were two broken men and never after that time
could they do anything. It is still talked of by old-timers who saw it, if there are any left. I
saw it.
These were just a few of the recollections of a kid. Many others come to mind, but
they are of no importance.
The old time lumberjack was a prince of a fellow, tough, hard, cheerful. But when
they were drunk they were the hardest, toughest, (?) most dangerous men on earth.
With cork shoes, I mean spiked, they enjoyed walking their man and most all of them
had calk marks on their faces for life. They never knew when to quit. No one gave in
and all fought as long as they could stand. But when it was over they were generally
good friends. In the spring they came out for their drunks and for an outfit for the drive to
the mills. Cork shoes, heavy woolens and caps. When the drive tied up at the mills they
went back home. Walked. No roads. No money left.
Michigan was the home of white pine. Enormous quantities were cut and shipped to
lake ports by schooners and barges. More was burned in forest fires than was ever
sawn. Many people burned out and up. None of us suffered. We always knew how to
handle them and was ready in plenty of time.
In my experience I have seen all the virgin growth of timber of the north cut and
burned. Some may say this is deplorable but that is not so. For the northern timber, first
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the pines and then the hardwoods, had a use. The pines built the entire Mississippi
Valley homes and cities and towns. The hardwood followed in furniture, factories,
wagons, and farm implements. So the timber made an empire. Waste was a large
factor but it had its place in the larger picture.
So Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Canada may be proud of their contribution
to the progress and building of an empire, and all of this during the period of one pioneer
boy that had a large part in its progress.

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Appendix H

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MISSAUKEE REPUBLICAN, LAKE CITY, MICH., FEBRUARY 20, 1936.

Some Facts Of Missaukee County In The Early

Days
The urge to move forward beats in every human breast. Sometimes the path
ahead may be clearly marked out, but at other times it may lead through
dangerous forests, through rivers and dense fogs. Every gain that has been
made, individually or as a group, has been made at tremendous sacrifice,
sometimes of life, again of poverty, then of comforts, but nevertheless the urge
to go forward beats in every human breast just the same today as at the time of
the early settlement of this county.
Unfortunately for the student of history, the Indians who occupied this
county before the coming of the white men kept no records and his history
here is nearly all lost. In this particular section there was little contact between
whites and the red owners, since the latter had ceded their rights and removed
from this county before any early settlements were made in this vicinity.
Mention is made by Alexander Blackbird in his history of the Chippewa and
Ottawa Indians that the Ottawas, Chippewas and the Iroquois had at some time
or other settled in this county and that a continual warfare was waged to see
who would retain possession of what was then known as the most wonderful
hunting grounds known to them. It is related that the Ottawa and Chippewa
nations came near going to war once over the slaying in a private feud of a
Chippawa by an Ottawa and the Chippawas were finally appeased by a treaty
permitting them to share this greatly coveted hunting ground, that thereafter
they used it in common and found plenty of game for both; and used what is
now known as Missaukee county as their winter home. In the summer time
after the sugar was made from the maples of Missaukee, the Indians went down
the river again, and coasted back to their summer home in the lower or upper
peninsular wherever their permanent home might have been.
The name Missaukee taken from an article entitled "History and meaning of
the county names of Michigan" by Wm. L. Jenks of Port Huron, Mich., for the
Michigan Pioneer and Historical collections Vol. 38, pp 439-478, was named
after an Ottawa chief who signed the treaties of 1831 and 1833. The name
itself may be derived directly from a word meaning "at large mouth of river," or
Mississaugua an Indian tribe near the head of Georgian Bay "people of the wide
mouth river." Missaukee was named by the legislature of 1840 which laid out
and named twenty-eight counties completing the division into counties of the
lower peninsula.

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The names of sixteen of these counties were changed in 1843, but this
county retained it original name.
The honor of being the first white settler in this county is somewhat
disputed. Some say that the Richardsons were first, while others claim that
the Vogels established a permanent home here first. Never-the-less, according
to the enrollment book of the old settlers the honor of being the first white
settlers in this county goes to the Richardson family who settled in Pioneer
township in 1867. Mr. Richardson and his family settled on section 26,
township 24 north, range 7 west, near the village of Pioneer. M.D. Richardson
was born April 10, 1846 and his wife, Sarah Richardson, was born July 29,
1848. The Richardsons had two children, A.A. Richardson, who was born May
29, 1873 and Miss Etta Richardson, who was born March 28, 1870. Both were
born in Missaukee county.
The second family to settle in Missaukee county was the family of John
Vogel who settled near what is now called Vogel Center. Mr. Vogel held several
of the county offices and was considered a brave and upright citizen of the
county.
The third family to settle in this county was Daniel Reeder, who was the first
settler to settle in what is now Lake City.
The Reeders were of typical sturdy English Stock. The father was a bluff
square-built Englishman and might have sat for the portrait of the typical
Johnny Bull. The mother was an Englishwoman of a different type, a quaint
sweet Quaker lady whose sober dress and quiet "thees and thous" sounded
oddly in the ears of the early somewhat rough speaking crowd of pioneers and
woodsmen that formed the population of this place in that day.
The Reeders had six children: Two daughters, Harriet (now Mrs. J. J. Pollard
of Forest township, Missaukee county) and Selina (now Mrs. C. Reeder of Erie,
Pa.) and four boys, William, Washington, Charles and Daniel.
Daniel Reeder, founder of Lake City, and one of the first three men to
actually locate and take up a residence in Missaukee county was a resident of
Missaukee county since he first set foot on it. The following is a biographical
sketch of Daniel Reeder relating the circumstances pertaining to his first visit
to the site of this city and was prepared from data furnished by Mr. Reeder
himself (published in the Plain Dealer May 19, 1897) and facts given by his
daughter Agnes (Mrs. Agnes Ransom of Lake City, Mich.)
Daniel Reeder was born in Newmarket, York county, Canada, June 24,
1833. In 1836 the family moved to Oakwood, Victoria, Canada. On Feb. 15,
1855, Mr. Reeder was married to Elizabeth Bateman and to this union five
children were born: Agnes (now Mrs. Agnes Ransom), Orilla (now Mrs. Orilla
Ostrander), George E. Reeder of Duluth, Minn., John C. Reeder of Foster,
Calif., and Miss Lizzie Reeder who died June 20, 1878.
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through the winter. On May 1, 1868, he and four others organized themselves
into a company to come to Missaukee county to look for homes. They came
with a team as far as McDonald's camp on the Clam river, a mile and a half
below Falmouth, Mich. That was the end of the road. From there they walked,
the company arriving at Muskrat lake (now known as Missaukee Lake) May 12
and stayed all night on its bank. Next day, Mr. Reeder looked the adjoining
country over and the party returned to the team. During that night he fully
determined to locate beside Muskrat lake. In the morning he told his
companions his decision, and they laughed at the idea and tried to dissuade
him, but without avail. They divided their provisions, he taking his share and
two blankets, and prepared to start when the owner of the team said that he
couldn't see Reeder go alone, so it was arranged with the rest that the latter
were to go to Houghton Lake with the team and Reeder and his companions
would come back and look Muskrat lake country over more thoroughly. This
was done.
Next morning both decided to locate here on section six, and at sunrise they
departed, Mr. Reeder going to Traverse City on the night of the May 17, 1868,
Mr. Reeder, on the 18th located the north half of section six. From there he
returned to Big Rapids on foot (this being the only mode of travel at the time)
and met the other four men who had just returned from Houghton Lake with a
half a cheese box full of fish.
June 16th, the five reinforced now by William Reeder, a brother of Daniel
Reeder, arrived back at Muskrat lake with the team and wagon. Next afternoon
they cut logs and put up a shanty of about 14x20 feet, one-story high which
was the first building of any kind built by a white man on or near Muskrat lake
(now know as Lake Missaukee). In the afternoon they looked up a location for
each of the others, but that night two of them decided to go back from where
they came, and the next morning three of them started for Traverse City. On
reaching there, William Reeder located his land but the other two went back
without locating any. The brothers, Daniel and William Reeder, remained here
during the summer and in the fall returned to Canada, returning here again in
October, accompanied by Daniel Reeder's children and his brother Washington
Reeder.
The following is a narrative of the trip from Canada to Lake City as given by
Daniel Reeder's daughter Agnes (now Mrs. Agnes Ransom):
Sometime in October of 1868 my father decided to go back to Muskrat lake,
so we hurriedly made preparation and left for Traverse City which was the
nearest place to purchase any provisions at that time. We landed in Traverse
City on Monday and after getting a good meal and much preparation, buying
of provisions, etc., we decided to leave for the remainder of the journey Tuesday
morning . Early Tuesday morning we left Traverse City with a little one-horse
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afther [sic] walking. It was an interesting trip for some but not for me, as I was
not used to walking, and during the day my poor tender feet began to swell and
by night they were swollen quite badly so we stopped at Mayfield (about 10
miles southeast of Traverse City) at a Mr. Wilson's home, staying there Tuesday
evening and all day Wednesday. Thursday morning we again started out on
our trip and after considerable walking we decided to camp in the wilderness
Thursday night. Sitting around the fire that night everyone was happy
thinking of their new adventure and of the new home we were going to. Father
telling us children all about it and the wonderful lake nearby.
After traveling all day Friday, we finally arrived at Mr. Richardson's home in
Pioneer township late that evening where we decided to spend the evening.
Saturday morning we left bright and early, the children being all excited
thinking of our new home which we expected to reach that day, and about
noon we arrived to it. We were very happy and I remember very vividly of the
early settlers who came to our home to get their mail. Our home being the first
postoffice in Lake City, the mail was brought to us by the early settlers who
went to get their provisions about every two or three months.
The first Mrs. Reeder died on April 1, 1865, and Mr. Reeder was united in
marriage with Mary Quick on Feb. 29, 1872. To them two children were born,
Martin D. and Louisa. Daniel Reeder remained in Lake City until his death,
April 26, 1912. He was connected with several of our business enterprises and
was a successful agriculturist and business man with a tender heart and a
kind word for his people.

(Continued next week)

MISSAUKEE REPUBLICAN, LAKE CITY, MICH., FEBRUARY 27, 1936.

Some Facts Of Missaukee County In The Early

Days
(Continued from last week)

One of the best sketches of pioneer times in Lake City and Missaukee county
was prepared by Mrs. Reeder and read in a paper in 1902 before the old
settler's reunion of that year, and from the paper mentioned are collated the
salient facts comprising the county's history.
The first survey made of this end of the peninsula was made about the time
that Michigan was admitted to statehood and was under federal direction
largely for the purpose it is said of securing a more definite and accurate map
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and lakes. At this time, 1837, the nearest trading points at which food and
other supplies might be purchased were at Rix Robinson's Post at Grand
Rapids or at a fur traders post on Saginaw Bay. North of here there was no
white man nearer than Mackinac, and no settlement had yet been made on
Grand Traverse Bay, but there was an Indian mission at what is now known as
Harbor Springs.
The first survey of the county was made by John Brink, D. S., in May 1837,
and a resurvey was made by W.L. Coffinberry about 1853 to 1856. The first
and second homesteads in the county were taken by Mr. A.B. Clark, and a
gentleman by the name of Laird, both of whom abandoned their claims before
final proofs. The third was taken by H.A. Ferris, who made final proof but
never actually resided on it, and sold it soon afterward. Mr. W. Richardson was
the first who made a permanent home in the county. The date of his claim
being December 27th, 1867, and William J. Morey also homesteaded his land
during the same month.
The first recorded election was held April 3, 1861. For Justice of the
Supreme Court and other state offices, forty-one votes were cast, all
Republican. Of the first county election, the records in the county clerk's office
tell nothing. All that can be ascertained is that sometime in the spring of 1871
a special election was held at which the following officers were chosen: John
Vogel, judge of probate; Gillis McBain, sheriff; E.W. Watson, clerk and register;
Ira VanMeter, treasurer; A. Stout, surveyor. The circuit judge, T.J. Ramsdell of
Traverse City, appointed L.H. Gage of Traverse City, prosecuting attorney for
this county, there being no attorney within its limits.
The county seat was located at Falmouth, a permanent site to be fixed by the
voters later. It is related by the old settlers here that in June 1873 a vote was
taken in the county as to where the county seat was to be and that both sides,
the Falmouth and Reeder (now known as Lake City) organizations, brought in
or imported a great many of their votes and the Reeder organization won only
by about one vote, and a high old time was held in Reeder that night.
The first board of supervisors met at the Perley farm, about two miles
northeast of Falmouth (Pinhook) on June 6th, 1871. Those present were
William J. Morey of Pioneer, James White of Quilna (now known as Caldwell
and Bloomfield townships), Daniel Reeder of Reeder, John Vogel of Clam Union
and Henry VanMeter of Riverside. Mr. Reeder was elected chairman. The
salaries of the county officers were fixed by this board as follows: Clerk, $500;
treasurer, $250; prosecuting attorney, $200; judge of probate, $100, and the
sheriff, $100 per year. At this session the Osceola Outline of Hersey was
designated as the official paper of the county. The first general election on
record was held in November of 1872 during the Grand and Greeley campaign.
There were one hundred and nineteen national ballots polled, Grant receiving
one hundred and eleven and Greeley eight. On the county ticket John Vogel

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was re-elected probate judge; Otto Schaap, sheriff; M.D. Richardson, clerk and
register; B.C. Bonnell, surveyor, and Thomas T. Caldwell and Addison T.
Smith, coroners.
The first birth that occurred in the county was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Vogel, born June 20, 1869. The second child to be born in this county
was Etta, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M.D. Richarson, and was born March 28,
1870. The first male child to be born in this county was born Sept. 16, 1871,
and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. and Hattie C. Caldwell. The second
male child to be born in the county was William Wallace, born Oct. 14, 1871,
and was the son of George and Minnie Wallace. The first death that occurred
was that of Albert Richardson, March 21, 1870. The first marriage was John
Cavanaugh and Miss Caroline VanMeter on March 1, 1871, and was
solemnized by the Rev. W. Richardson.
The first physician was Dr. Moorehouse of Falmouth and the resident
attorney was A. C. Lewis, both later moving to California. The first road was
built in the fall of 1867, from the Watson farm to Falmouth, by a Mr.
McDonald, and Oscar Noble constructed the first state road through the
county, which was called the Houghton Lake State Road.
The first logging camp in the county was built by W. Windson in 1865, on
section 34, township 21 north, range 6 west, on the bank of the Clam river two
miles below Vogel Center. The first pole logging road was built by Paul Lux,
Sr., in 1877, running from section 35, township 23 north, range 7 west, to the
head of the West Branch or what is now known as the Gerish dam. It was
operated during the spring and summer of 1878 and brought in three million
five hundred thousand feet of logs to the West Branch.
The first railroad for running logs was built by Watson Brothers. Tom
Simpson also built one about the same time in 1876-7, the rails being part of
iron and part of wood. One road ran from the No. 2 farm on the Butterfield to
the main Muskegon river. The others ran to the Clam. The first passenger
road was completed in December 1885, by Mr. Cummer of Cadillac. In the
spring of 1890 the Missaukee branch of the Grand Rapids & Indiana was
extended to Lake City.
The first saw and shingle mill in the county was built by Pearly, Palmer &
Company in the winter of 1871-2. The first grist mill was erected at Falmouth.
The first hotel was also built at Falmouth in 1871 and was managed by John
Cavanaugh. The first deer, bear or wolf killed by a white man in this county
was killed by a man by the name of Hicks in 1866.
A temporary court house was built at Falmouth in 1871. In 1873 a court
house and jail were built at Lake City and in 1883, a new court house was
erected at a cost of $10,000. The new jail was erected in 1886 at a cost of
something over $7,000.
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south of the house now owned by William J. Morey. Since then it has been
held on grounds purchased by the society.
The first postoffice was at the home of Daniel Reeder at Reeder (now known
as Lake City) in the spring of 1872. Mail used to be brought to the settlers in
the county by those who made long trips for provisions, and the settlers came
for their mail when the trains returned. The mail averaged perhaps one every
two months. The postoffice was first called Reeder and later changed to Lake
City, and the village was platted under that name and incorporated in 1887 as
a village with Arlington C. Lewis as the first president.
The first store was built by John Koopman in October 1869, it being a log
house residence and store combined. In 1879 Mr. Koopman built a store at
Falmouth.
All of the lumber towns were filled with hotels and saloons those days to
accommodate the jolly rough lumber jacks. The little town of Lake City once
supported fifteen saloons at one time. Some of these places were filled with fun
and good times but often the fun grew too boisterous and proved disastrous.
With the coming of the county seat, Lake City began to prosper. What is
now known as Main street was at one time lined on both sides with hotels,
tailor shops, restaurants, grocery stores, bakeries, saloons and all other
buildings that are necessary for a growing town.
The railroad was a narrow gauge and at first came only to the shore of
Muskrat lake at Komoka and the freight was carried across by boat in the
summer and by sleighs in the winter, but finally the railroad was built on
around the lake and the depot was sited somewhere in the back of Buck's store
(Buck's store was situated where the Model Bakery now stands).
At one time the shore of Lake Missaukee was lined with mills and the town
supported a handle factory, a shingle factory and other mills. Some of the mill
owners were the Sands', Kellys', Clark's, Inverson, Arbuckle and the Reeder
mill.
In history, as well as in fiction, everything does not run smooth, and
Missaukee county had several small fires to destroy some of their historic
buildings. The largest fire in the old times was the fire of July 4th, 1888,
which passed off pleasantly in the village of Lake City, and the dance was still
going on at Buckley's hall when the cry of "fire" was raised. It originated in the
pump room in M. Vanarsdale's saloon building and was believed to be of
incendiary origin. The outside door of this room was fastened open with a
stake driven in the ground and the first arrivals report the stake pulled up and
the door fastened shut. The first alarm was given by Mrs. A. Stout, who
discovered it from her bedroom window. The nightwatch was at the dance
taking it easy. The fire spread rapidly north, east and south and G.W. Wood's
hardware store was the only building left on the block in which most of the
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The following is a list of the buildings burned at that time: George W.

Woods, hardware building, etc.; Mrs. S.A. Philip, small building; Missaukee
County Bank, building; Fisher Drug Store, building; S.M. Ardis Dry Goods
Store; M. Vanarsdale, saloon building; E. Des Voignes, store building; Will J.
Roche's Drug Store; Wm. A. Minthorn's two-story building; Gaffney & Owens'
one-story building; J.K. Seafuse's two-story building; Washington Reeder's
building; George Morrison's two-story building; A. Stout's residence and barn;
M. Vanarsdal's residence; Long & Whiteford's two-story building and Mrs.
Hattie Caldwell's residence.
Besides the above enumerated losses there were many small losses and
nearly all of the boarders at the General Hotel lost some clothing, etc.
Although some of our nearby counties have lost a good share of their logging
days population, it is not so with Missaukee county. The total population of
Missaukee county according to the 1920 census was 9,004. Approximately
half of the population is of Holland Dutch descent, and settled in the
neighborhood of the villages of Lucas, McBain, Falmouth, Moddersville and
Arlene, while in and around the villages of Lake City, Pioneer, Morey and
Merritt the population are mostly of English and Irish descendants with about
one dozen families of Finlanders. Missaukee county has but two families of
colored people and approximately five families of Indians, one of which is a
direct descendant of Chief Pontiac of the Pottowattomie tribe. The Detroit
Times a short time ago devoted a full page to feature the description and life of
this great Indian. Most of our Indian tribe is living in the southeast section of
the county and many of their noble characteristics are gone due to their
mingling with the white race.
Moreover the love of trees, shrubs and flowers possessed by the pioneers has
been passed on to the people of each succeeding period and the hundreds of
beautiful homes in our county are surrounded by well kept lawns and trees, as
well as beautiful shrubbery, shade and the street in front of most cases either
gravelled or paved. Visitors often remark that our little villages are very clean.
It has been the habit of our county for the past years to see that all
objectionable sights were removed and that homes, lawns, farms, etc., were
kept as clean as possible and the people here pride themselves in having some
very fine homes and surroundings for a county of its size. In Missaukee
county we not only have several motorized fire departments, but it has been a
custom for years that in case of fire each and every individual goes to the scene
of the fire and help put it out in the best manner possible, and Missaukee
county has had but two major fires since its organization in 1869.

(THE END)
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Appendix I

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HISTORY OF

SAN BERNARDINO
AND

RIVERSIDE COUNTIES
BY

JOHN BROWN, Jr.

Editor for San Bernardino County

AND

JAMES BOYD
Editor for Riverside County

WITH

Selected Biography of Actors and Witnesses

Of the Period of Growth
And Achievement

VOLUME III

THE WESTERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

1922

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[Pages 1293-1295]

J. C. Reeder. The career of J. C. Reeder, one of the well known and

substantial citizens of the Ontario District, has not been a steady and
uninterrupted climb toward prosperity. Two of his early California ventures
were complete failures. He returned to his task after seeing his savings
dissipated, and this faculty of never giving up in defeat and his hopeful
enterprise have largely determined the successful position he now enjoys.

Mr. Reeder was born at Lindsay, Canada, September 18, 1862. When he
was two years old his mother died, and three years later his father, Daniel
Reeder, moved to Michigan and settled in the northern woods, in what is now
Missaukee County, sixty-five miles from the nearest settlement, Traverse City
being the nearest town. He homesteaded land there. Daniel Reeder was for
several years the only man of any education in the entire county. With the
increase of population he mortgaged his farm in order to secure money to
establish the county seat at his own town, Lake City, and he realized this
ambition.

It was such a country, of great woods, without any of the institutions of

refinement, neither schools nor churches, that J.C. Reeder spent his boyhood.
Altogether he attended public school only three months, and only by his own
efforts in later years did he secure the equivalent of an ordinary education. He
has been making his own way since he was thirteen. At seventeen he left home
altogther. His early life was spent in a lumber town, where there were thirteen
saloons and a brawl or fight almost always on the program. He worked
alongside rough lumber jacks in the timber and lumber camps and on the
river, and it is a tribute to his independent character that in spite of this
environment he never used tobacco or intoxicating liquors. While still a boy he
was employed on a lumber boom, and in six weeks his pay was raised to the
same as that given to men two years in the service. It was the custom to gauge
the rate of pay according to length of experience. From this work he returned
to Lake City with a hundred dollars saved, and borrowing twenty-five dollars
more and taking in a partner he established a drug store. Nine months later
he sold his interest to his partner, netting a big profit.

After some other experiences Mr. Reeder went to Washington and for three
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contracted the purchase of ten acres in the Barton District of Redlands,

California. It was a tract of unimproved land, but the purchase agreement was
that it would be set to oranges and developed while he was making the
payments. In 1891 he came down to Redlands to investigate, and found that
everything he had put into the investment had gone for naught. Thus relieved
of the embarrassment of accumulating riches and left with only fifty dollars, he
went to work in the old Terricina Hotel, and six months later found himself the
possessor of five hundred dollars. His next employment was with an
engineering party in Bear Valley under Mr. Sargent, engaged in the Moreno
Survey. By 1894 Mr. Reeder had nine hundred dollars, and this he invested in
a small ranch property in San Diego County. Here again conditions were all
against him, and after five years of struggle he left and went to Lakeside, forty-
five dollars in debt. At Lakeside he worked with a surveying party, used his
team for contract work and also operated steam pumps, supplying the city of
San Diego with water. At the end of two years he had sixteen hundred dollars
in the bank.

With this little fortune he established himself permanently in the field where
he is located today. In January, 1901, he bought his present homestead, three
miles west of Euclid Avenue in Ontario. He paid four hundred seventy-five
dollars for five acres of wild land on Holt Avenue, set it to oranges, built a
home, and instituted other improvements. He then contracted to buy an
adjoining five acres for eight hundred dollars, paying only forty dollars down.
By borrowing and from his savings he paid out, and his ten acres, now
completely developed as an orange grove, would conservatively be valued at
thirty-five thousand dollars. Altogether Mr. Reeder now owns ninety-five acres
of improved land, chiefly in oranges and deciduous orchards. He is a
stockholder to the extent of seven thousand dollars in the San Antonio Packing
Company and holds stock in a number of other organizations. In twenty years
he has accumulated a very substantial competency, due to his energetic labors
and the wisdom with which he has estimated present and future conditions.

For the past sixteen years Mr. Reeder has served as district road boss. He
has been a life long republican and a man of scrupulous integrity in all his
transactions. He is one of the most thoroughly practical horticulturists in this
section.

In the spring of 1894 he married Miss Lulu B. Sharp, a native of Missouri,

who came to Pomona, California, in 1891. Mr. and Mrs. Reeder can certainly
be pardoned a justifiable pride in their splendid family of seven boys, from the
oldest to the youngest perfect specimens of physical strength and well being,
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in school athletics.

The oldest, Paul H. Reeder, born September 1, 1895, at San Diego,

graduated from the Chaffey Union High School and at the time of the World
war he enlisted in the Field Hospital Corps and for almost two years was in
France. He was in the first unit to cross the line after the armistice was signed.
He was prominent in the athletic and field contests of the army in France, and
the day before his return he won five of the events in a great field day of athletic
sports. He is a thirty-second degree Mason. Paul Reeder married Miss Agnes
Baker, of Pomona, and they have one daughter, Pauline Agnes Reeder, born
July 27, 1921.

The second son, Arthur J. Reeder, born November 12, 1896, at San Diego,
also graduated from the Chaffey Union High School and he broke all the
athletic records of that school and gained a state-wide reputation as a football
player and in other sports. He volunteered and went into Field Hospital Corps
in the same unit with his brother, and they were together all through the
service. After his return he went to Arizona and proved up a homestead of
agricultural land. He is a member of the Masonic Order.

The third son, Donald D. Reeder, born September 18, 1899, at San Diego,
graduated from Chaffey High School, also made his mark in athletics and was
a volunteer for the war service and ready to go when the armistice was signed.
Later he took over management of the Avis Hotel Café, Pomona. In 1921 he
married Miss Ruth Cooper, of Upland, California.

The younger sons are L. DeWitt Reeder, born at Ontario August 4, 1901, a
graduate of the Chaffey High School and now a student in Pomona College;
George born at Ontario December 30, 1905; Teddy Lewis, born at Ontario
October 4, 1907, and Stanley, born June 4, 1909.

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Appendix J

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Following is a letter from James G. Reeder written in 1933 to Orilla (Reeder) Ostrander. James
was the grandson of Job Reeder, Job was the brother of Moses Reeder and Orilla was the
daughter of Daniel Reeder. Orilla married Charles L. Ostrander in 1875. Charles had died
several months before the date of the letter. Orilla died in 1942.

The original letter was retyped in the early 1960's, probably by Mary Emily Reeder and sent to
Lawson DeWitt Reeder.

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REEDER AND REEDER

(James G. Reeder George S. Reeder)
Attorneys at Law
Columbus, Nebraska

September 7, 1933

Mrs. Charles L. Ostrander

Lake City
Michigan

Dear Mrs. Ostrander:

I was very agreeably surprised and pleased to receive your

letter of the 5 th inst. I had never known very much about the
Lake City Reeders, except that they migrated from Canada to
Lake City years ago. But at the time when they lived in
Canada, I do not recall the name of the place, my father, who
was Samuel G. Reeder of Edinboro, Pa., visited them frequently
and your grandfather, Eamon Reeder, and his delightful Quaker
wife visited at my father's house one summer. While I was a
small boy, I recall your grandmother with her quaint Quaker
garb and how she used "thee" and "thou". She must have been a
woman with a fine education. She possessed the most wonderful
knowledge of folk lore and fairy tales with which she
entertained the children. Your grandfather, Eamon Reeder, was
a very strong and sturdy man. He must have been a farmer by
occupation, because I recall he knew so much about operating a
farm. My father, I think, visited at his house in Canada, and
one of my brothers who died in infancy was named Eamon Reeder,
after him.

You also had an aunt by the name of "Selina", whom we always

called "Lina". She also visited at our house and eventually
married a second cousin of hers by the name of Charles Reeder.
This marriage, I think, was a run-a-way marriage. She and her
husband came to Pennsylvania and lived there all their lives.
Charles Reeder died some 12 or 15 years ago in Erie, Pa., and
Lina Reeder died in Richmond, Va. some 3 or 4 years ago. My
mother was very fond of Lina. I might add all our family were
likewise fond of her. She had an only son living in Richmond
in the newspaper business and she went there to spend her last
days. My sister who was younger than she accompanied her from
Erie to Richmond, as she was very old at that time. I might
add that Lina and her husband Charles visited us here after
they had spent a winter in San Diego, California, but as my
wife and children had likewise spent that winter in San Diego,
they had become acquainted. We enjoyed having them with us
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Coming back to the early Reeders, I do not know the name of

Eamon Reeder's father, but the history of that migration to
Canada developed in this way: There were three brothers,
including the two who originally went to Canada, probably
between 1780 and 1790. One brother, my grandfather, Job
Reeder was a surveyor and helped survey Erie and Crawford
counties, Pa. The other two brothers maintained
communications with him during all of their residence in
Canada. During the War of 1812 the two Reeder brothers in
Canada had joined an insurrection against the English
government and were compelled to flee the country. They came
to my grandfather's house in Erie, Pa., and remained for
something over a year. They assisted Commodore Perry in the
building of his fleet. They also did some service under Mad
Anthony Wayne. They were eventually pardoned by the English
government and returned to Canada.

After that time I recall that a number of the second

generation of the young Reeders visited in Edinboro. Among
others there were Samuel T. Reeder, Washington Reeder, Walter
(?) Reeder and some others whose names I do not recall.
Samuel T. Reeder was always known in and about Edinboro as
"Canada Sam" to distinguish him from my father who was plain
Samuel Reeder. "Canada Sam" visited me here perhaps 33 or 34
years ago. There was also another member of that family,
Charles Y. Reeder by name. He stayed at my father's house the
year that I was born (1858) and from there went West to St.
Joseph, Mo., where he engaged in the freighting business and
likewise in carrying mail through the west. He eventually
engaged in mining to some extent and accumulated quite a
fortune. But he and his wife separated some time about 1890
and she and their daughter moved to Florida, while he took his
money and went to Johannesburg, South Africa and engaged in
railroad building and other work of that kind. For many years
I had been receiving a newspaper from Johannesburg, and on the
inside of the papers would be from "C.Y.R." I did not know
whom these papers came from, but along about 1898 he came to
my office in this city and announced that he was "C.Y.R." Of
course, it did not mean anything to me and I had to have an
explanation. He was just returning from Johannesburg and he
stayed at our house about one month. He was the most
delightful and entertaining gentleman I had ever met. He took
my wife and children riding everyday and entertained them
every evening with tales of South Africa. He returned to
Africa shortly after that and visited twice later on. His
ventures were not all a success financially. The last time I
saw him was in St. Louis at the time of the Exposition.

I think all of the Erie County, Pa., Reeders are gone,

except one who is a second cousin of mine; also my sister
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still lives in Erie. I have been away from my father's home

most of the time since I was 16 years old and finally studied
law in Memphis, Tenn., where I was admitted to the Bar. Then
I came to Hutchinson, Kansas and remained for only six months.
I came to Columbus, fifty-one years ago. I was married in San
Diego, California in 1887. But there are plenty of Reeders in
the States. There is a firm of lawyers in Amarillo, Texas, by
the name of "Reeder and Reeder". There was in the early
nineties a lawyer by the name of Reeder in Houston, Texas.
There are some in Chattanooga, Tenn., but they all came from
the original Pennsylvania stock, which I have always been
told, came to Pennsylvania with William Penn. Charles Y.
Reeder found a firm of lawyers by the name of "Reeder and
Reeder" practicing law in Johannesburg, South Africa and we
had always supposed up to that time that our ancestors came
from England, but the Johannesburg Reeders claim that their
ancestor came from Holland to South Africa and that we are all
of Holland Dutch stock.

I am 75 years old. I am the only one of the Reeder family

in this particular section. I am very glad indeed that you
wrote me and hope that the information I have given you may be
of some assistance to you and would be glad to hear from you
again.

Very truly yours,

J G Reeder

P.S. My grandfather and Eamon Reeder's father and his

brother ran away from home at Williamsport, Pa. because their
father was dead and their mother had married again and they
disapproved of their stepfather. They never wrote their
mother after that. My vision is poor, but I am hoping to
obtain glasses soon.

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 Index of Individuals

A Carlson, Ann: 25
Adams, Mary: 35 Chandler, William Blaine: 23
Allen, James Greene: 34 Chick, Charles Percy: 25
Alter, Helen Venona: 24 Chick, Harry Nesbit: 25
Appleton, Elizabeth: 26 Chick, Richard Armand: 25
Appleton, Thomas: 26 Chick, Ruth L.: 25
Ardis, Charles R.: 23 Chick, Thomas Myrl: 25
Ardis, Charlotte Ann: 23 Collins, Elijah: 28, 29
Ardis, Dorman William: 23 Collins, Martha: 28
Ardis, Dorothy Alberta: 23 Collins, Mary: 15, 28, 29
Ardis, Elton Boyd: 23 Collins, Sarah: 28
Ardis, Lysle R.: 23 Collins, Sarah: 29
Ardis, William: 23 Comly, Agnes: 28, 29
Ardis, William J.: 23 Comly, Henry: 29
Ardis, William Reeder: 23 Comly, Henry: 29
Comly, Robert: 29
Conant, Mariah: 26
B Conner, Charles: 31
Baker, Agnes Marie: 24 Cook, Polly: 20
Baker, Elizabeth: 15 Cooper, Maybelle Ruth: 24
Barker, Elizabeth: 19 Creech, Mary Helen: 22
Barry, David: 19 Creech, Thomas: 22
Barry, Sabra Anna: 19
Bateman, Barbara Ann: 30
Bateman, David: 30 D
Bateman, Elizabeth: 5, 18, 30, 33 DeGeer, Hannah: 14
Bateman, Francis: 30 DeGeer, James: 15
Bateman, Francis: 30 Demaranville, Emily: 24
Bateman, George: 18, 30, 31 Dickson, Lavina: 22
Bateman, George Arthur: 30 Dillman, Elin: 14
Bateman, Hannah: 30 Dobson, Ella: 17
Bateman, John: 30, 31 Dobson, Frances Lillie: 17
Bateman, John Merrick: 30 Dobson, John: 17
Bateman, Lydia Jane: 30 Dobson, Mary Ann: 17
Bateman, Mary: 30 Dobson, William: 17
Bateman, Mary Ann: 30 Dobson, William: 17
Bateman, Rachael: 30 Doremus, Addie: 22
Bateman, William: 30, 31 Doughty, Eleanor: 30
Bateman, William: 30 Drake, Benjamin: 34
Bateman, William: 30 Ducatt, Lillian A: 16
Boggs, James: 23 Dulyea, Maggie: 16
Bolinger, Barbara: 33-35 Durr, Earl Russel: 27
Booker, Mary Marquis: 24 Durr, Francis Edgar Thorton: 27
Bowman, Barbara: 34, 35 Durr, John Edward: 27
Broadwater, Wilma Helen: 24 Durr, John Francis: 27
Brooks, Elizabeth: 15
Brophey, William Harold: 27 E
Bruce, Unknown: 23 Elizabeth, Catherine: 34-36
Butcher, Charles: 30 England, Laura Ethel: 26
Butcher, Joseph: 34 England, Matthew: 26
Evans, Ethel: 18
C
Cain, Agnes: 34, 35 F
Cardin, Jane: 35 Fair, John: 34

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Fair, Thomas J.: 34
Farrington, Unknown: 21
Finkbeiner, Lorne Ruben: 26
Finley, William H.: 33
Floodquist, Alice Margaret: 25
Frazier, Herman: 25
Frazier, Kathleen: 25
Frazier, Robert Edward: 25
Frost, Mary: 33
Fuller, Elizabeth: 17
G Lett, Sarah Jaine: 22
Garbutt, Clara Ann: 19
Geromette, Unknown: 27
Gibson, Daniel Crispen: 26
Gibson, Opale R.: 26
Gibson, Perry Aurora: 26
Givens, Sarah Susannah: 35
Gormley, Sarah: 26
Gormley, Unknown: 23
Green, Deacon Alfred: 17
Green, Mary L.: 17
Griffin, Donald C.: 26
Gullic, Anna Belle: 33
H Lundy, John: 14
Hanon, Susan: 34
Harkins, Beatrice: 23
Harmon, Thomas: 35
Harness, John L.: 33
Harrington, Linda Carroll: 24
Harrison, Hazel Margaret: 24
Heaton, Agnes: 29
Henderson, Wesley: 34
Hendy, Harold Robert: 22
Herrington, Dell: 15
Hollingshead, John: 28
Hollingsworth, Virginia: 23
Horner, Edith Emma: 26, 27
Horner, William: 26
Houlden, Matilda: 27
Hunter, Barbara: 33-35
Hunter, Henry: 33-35
Hunter, John: 34, 35
Hurt, Gabriel: 34
J Mawson, Sarah: 19
Jacobs, Ralph: 25
Jevons, Lyle Owen: 25
Johnston, Isaac: 20
Johnston, Sarah: 20
K Meldrew, Margaret: 23
Kennedy, Hugh: 18
Kent, Anna Mae: 26
Kirk, William: 34, 35
Kirk, Winfred: 33-35
Knoll, Albert: 16
Knowlton, Jane: 16
Kolar, Frank: 25
L
Lamport, James: 15
Larkin, Sara Olivia: 27
Larson, Inga Louise: 23
Lawson, Charlotte A.: 27
Lawson, Joseph W.: 20
Lincoln, Deborah: 32
Lincoln, Hannah: 32
Lincoln, John: 32
Lincoln, Mary: 31, 32
Lincoln, Mordecai: 32
Lincoln, Mordecai: 32
Lincoln, Sarah: 32
Linn, Margaret: 25
Loucks, George: 18
Loucks, Wihelmina: 18, 19
Louks, B.: 18
Loy, Anna Marie: 35, 36
Lucas, Herman: 23
Lundy, Sarah: 14
Lundy, William: 28
Luther, Gertrude: 20
Lux, Wilhelmina: 23
M
Mara, Elizabeth Janet: 30
Mawson, Alice E.: 26
Mawson, Eli: 19
Mawson, Elizabeth: 19
Mawson, Elizabeth: 26
Mawson, Jane: 20
Mawson, Jane: 19
Mawson, John: 19
Mawson, John Moreland: 19
Mawson, Maria: 19
Mawson, Mary: 19
Mawson, Moreland: 19
Mawson, Moses: 19
Mawson, Moses: 19, 26
Mawson, Susannah: 19, 26
Mawson, Wilbert: 26
McCabe, Clara Agnes: 27
McCloud, Donald: 23
McCurdy, Daniel Cooper: 27
McFarland, Tigris: 18
Merrick, John: 31
Middleton, Joseph: 23
Millard, Ann: 30, 31
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Millard, Susannah: 28
Mills, Preston: 33
Minnis, Martha A: 34
Minthorn, Alonzo: 16
Minthorn, Cosford: 16
Minthorn, Della Mae: 21
Minthorn, Eliza: 16
Minthorn, Elmer James: 21
Minthorn, Harriet: 21
Minthorn, Hazel Gertrude: 21
Minthorn, James: 16
Minthorn, Jas Howard: 21
Minthorn, John: 16
Minthorn, John: 16
Minthorn, Mancheski: 16
Minthorn, Mary: 16
Minthorn, Norman: 16, 21
Minthorn, Samuel: 16
Minthorn, Samuel: 21
Minthorn, Sarah: 16
Minthorn, William Alvy: 16, 21
Minthorn, William Clair: 21
Montgomery, Joseph: 33
Moreland, Catherine: 5, 14, 28
Morgan, Margaret: 30
Moshier, Harriet: 21
Mullany, Anna: 22
Munroe, Archibald: 27
Munroe, Mary Annie: 27
N
Nellis, Sarah Adalaide: 22
Nichols, Margaret: 20
Nichols, William: 20
Norman, George: 30, 31
Norman, Lydia: 30, 31
O Randall, Comly: 28, 29
Ostrander, Bert M.: 24
Ostrander, C.D.: 24
Ostrander, Charles L.: 23, 24
Ostrander, Viola C.: 24
P Randall, Jonathon: 28
Parrish, Edgar Lewis: 33
Pedersen, Dorthea Antonio: 21
Penrose, Charles: 31
Penrose, David: 31
Penrose, Elizabeth: 28
Penrose, Isaac: 31, 32
Penrose, Isaac , Jr.: 31
Penrose, Jane: 18, 30, 31
Penrose, Jesse: 32
Penrose, Joseph: 31
Penrose, Joseph: 31
Penrose, Margaret: 32
Penrose, Martha: 32
Penrose, Mary: 31
Penrose, Mary Ann: 31
Penrose, Peter: 31
Penrose, Rachel: 31
Penrose, Richard: 31
Penrose, Thomas Yarnell: 30-32
Pettengill, Raymond: 25
Phinney, Mary: 28, 29
Pickering, Sarah Hanna: 26
Pirrung, Augusta Wilhelmina: 23
Pirrung, Unknown: 23
Playter, Harriet: 31
Playter, Priscilla Nancy: 21
Playter, Sarah Ann: 17
Playter, Watson Waterman: 17, 21
Pollard, Donald: 25
Pollard, Frank: 25
Pollard, John J.: 18
Pollard, June: 25
Pollard, Kenneth Randall: 25
Pollard, Lillian: 18
Pollard, Manley: 25
Pollard, Percy: 25
Pollard, Robert: 25
Pollard, William S.: 18, 25
Powell, John Clark: 33
Q
Quick, John J.: 18
Quick, Mary Amelia: 18
R
Rader, Pauline Mae: 24
Randall, Agnes: 28
Randall, Agness: 28
Randall, Asa: 15, 28, 29
Randall, Comely: 28
Randall, Edward: 28
Randall, Edward: 28
Randall, Elizabeth: 28
Randall, Elizabeth: 5, 15, 28, 30
Randall, Jonathan: 28
Randall, Joseph: 28
Randall, Joseph: 28
Randall, Mary: 28
Randall, Nicholas: 28, 29
Randall, Phebe: 28
Randall, Rachel: 28
Randall, William: 28
Ransom, Charles Albert: 23
Ransom, Ida May: 23
Ransom, John D.: 23
Ransom, Mae: 23
Ransom, Maude Ethel: 23
Rathburn, Eleanor: 21
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Rathburn, Glenn R.: 21 Reeder, Japheth: 21
Rathburn, Glennia: 21 Reeder, Jeanetta: 20
Rathburn, Maxine: 21 Reeder, Job: 19
Reader, Rebecca: 30 Reeder, Job: 15
Reardon, John: 25 Reeder, John: 14-27
Redfern, Clarinda: 34 Reeder, John: 15, 20, 27
Redfern, Emeline: 34 Reeder, John: 20
Reeder, Agnes: 5, 18, 23 Reeder, John: 27
Reeder, Alberta: 22 Reeder, John Cumley: 5, 18, 24, 33
Reeder, Alexander: 15, 20 Reeder, John Watson: 17
Reeder, Alexander: 20 Reeder, John Wesley: 20
Reeder, Alice: 19, 26 Reeder, Joseph: 14-27
Reeder, Almira: 19 Reeder, Joseph: 14-27
Reeder, Arthur John: 5, 24 Reeder, Joseph: 21
Reeder, Charles: 14-27 Reeder, Joseph Witney: 17, 22
Reeder, Charles: 5, 15, 17, 22, 23 Reeder, Lawson DeWitt: 5, 24
Reeder, Charles: 21 Reeder, Lewis Theodore: 5, 24
Reeder, Charles Franklin: 17 Reeder, Lillian May: 19, 25
Reeder, Charles Jasper: 19 Reeder, Lina: 27
Reeder, Charles T.: 19 Reeder, Lizzie (name: Elizabeth Reeder): 5, 18
Reeder, Charles Y.: 14 Reeder, Maria: 15
Reeder, Charlotte Estella: 18, 23 Reeder, Marion: 16, 21
Reeder, Clara Munroe: 27 Reeder, Marshall Edgar: 17
Reeder, Claribell Evalyn: 19, 25 Reeder, Martin Daniel: 18, 24
Reeder, Dan Martin: 25 Reeder, Mary Emily: 25
Reeder, Daniel: 5, 15, 18, 23, 24, 30, 33 Reeder, Mary Louisa: 18
Reeder, Don Daniel: 5, 24 Reeder, Moreland: 5, 14, 15, 19, 20, 26, 27
Reeder, Dorothy Dee: 25 Reeder, Morton Christian: 23
Reeder, Eamon: 5, 14, 15, 17-19, 22-26, 28, 30 Reeder, Moses: 15
Reeder, Edwin G.: 19 Reeder, Moses: 5, 14-28
Reeder, Eileen Adelaide: 22 Reeder, Moses: 15, 20, 27
Reeder, Eleanor: 5, 14 Reeder, Moses: 20, 27
Reeder, Eleanor Margaret: 14, 16, 21 Reeder, Moses , Jr.: 5, 14, 15, 17
Reeder, Elizabeth: 5, 14 Reeder, Nancy Elizabeth: 25
Reeder, Elizabeth: 14, 16, 21, 22 Reeder, Orilla Jane: 5, 18, 23, 24
Reeder, Elizabeth (aka: Lizzie Reeder): 5, 18 Reeder, Paul Hugh: 5, 24
Reeder, Elizabeth Ann: 17 Reeder, Prentice A.: 17
Reeder, Elsie Ethel: 27 Reeder, Roy Webster: 18
Reeder, Emon Everett: 17 Reeder, Salina: 20
Reeder, Emon T.: 15 Reeder, Sally Louise: 17
Reeder, Francis: 20, 27 Reeder, Samuel T.: 14, 17
Reeder, Frank: 17 Reeder, Sarah Ann: 15, 17
Reeder, Fred Howard: 17, 22 Reeder, Sarah Maria Emma: 21, 27
Reeder, Fred Russel: 22 Reeder, Selina: 5, 15, 19, 26
Reeder, Frederick T.: 21 Reeder, Stanley: 5, 24
Reeder, Garfield: 19 Reeder, Susanna: 15, 19, 20, 26
Reeder, George: 15 Reeder, Susanna: 20
Reeder, George Clifford: 5, 24 Reeder, Susannah: 5, 14
Reeder, George Elmer: 27 Reeder, Texie E.: 17
Reeder, George Emon: 5, 18, 23 Reeder, Unknown: 22
Reeder, Guy Hamilton: 19 Reeder, Vera E.: 20
Reeder, Harriet: 5, 15, 18, 25 Reeder, Washington: 5, 15, 18, 19, 25
Reeder, Helen: 26 Reeder, Washington Leslie: 17
Reeder, Henrietta Mabel: 23 Reeder, Washington Randall Garbutt: 19, 25, 26
Reeder, Ida Louise: 25 Reeder, Wayne R.: 26
Reeder, Isaac: 14-27 Reeder, William: 5, 14, 16, 17, 21, 22
Reeder, James: 21 Reeder, William: 5, 15
Reeder, Jane Elizabeth: 15, 19, 26 Reeder, William: 20

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Reeder, William: 20
Reeder, William Everett: 16
Reeder, William J.A.: 14, 16, 21
Reeder, William Lincoln: 17, 22
Reynolds, Ella: 22
Rix, James: 16
Rose, Sylvia Ann: 31
Rowe, Joseph Henry: 21
S Tucker, David: 24
Salter, Hannah: 32
Scott, Jane: 19
Sharp, Aaron: 36
Sharp, Barbara: 34
Sharp, Clara Alice: 33
Sharp, Elizabeth: 33
Sharp, Emma: 33
Sharp, George: 34-36
Sharp, George Riley: 34
Sharp, Henry Hunter: 34
Sharp, John: 33-35
Sharp, John: 34
Sharp, John George: 35, 36
Sharp, Laura Ann: 33
Sharp, Lawson: 24, 33, 34
Sharp, Lloyd W.: 33
Sharp, Louisa: 34
Sharp, Lulu Belle: 5, 24, 33
Sharp, Mary Ella: 33
Sharp, Norah: 33
Sharp, Polly: 34
Sharp, Robert Wood: 33
Sharp, William H.: 33-35
Sharp, William Newton: 34
Sharp, Winifred: 34
Sherwood, Lucindy: 16
Shotwell, Elizabeth: 31, 32
Silver, Myron H. D.: 30
Slade, Alice: 25
Smith, Catherine: 21
Smith, Marie E.: 25
Snodgrass, Isaac: 35
Stonehouse, Mary Ann: 21
T Widdifield, Joseph: 28
Taylor, David: 31, 32
Taylor, Mary: 30-32
Teel, Francis: 15
Teel, Sarah: 15
Teets, Alfred: 16
Teets, Charles G.: 16
Teets, Daniel: 22
Teets, Elwood: 16, 22
Teets, George Nelson: 16, 21, 22
Teets, Henryette: 16
Teets, James: 16
Teets, Joseph: 22
Teets, Louisa: 16
Teets, Mary Ann: 16
Teets, Nelson: 16
Teets, William: 16
Teets, William G.: 16
Thompson, Jane Elizabeth: 25
Toole, Elizabeth: 14
Toole, Elizabeth: 14, 15
Toole, John: 14
Tucker, John: 34
Tunison, Deborah L.: 18
Turner, Elizabeth: 20
Tyler, Joan: 29
U
Unknown, Dorothy: 17
Unknown, Mary: 35, 36
Updike, Ida: 24
Updike, William: 24
V
Varnum, Nancy: 30
W
Walker, Esther: 34, 35
Walker, George: 35
Walker, Henry: 35
Walker, Henry: 35, 36
Walker, James: 35
Walker, John H.: 35
Walker, Mary: 35
Walker, Nancy: 35
Walker, Sarah: 35
Walker, William: 35, 36
Walker, William , Jr.: 35
Ward, Blanche I.: 22
Wasley, Huldah: 28
Webster, Mary Ann: 17
Webster, Rachel: 28, 29
Werner, Marie: 23
White, William Howard: 18
Whitney, Emma J.: 18
Widdifield, Henry: 28
Willis, Cornelius: 16
Willis, Lavina: 16
Wilson, Elizabeth: 34
Wilson, Patsey Martha: 33-35
Wilson, Thomas: 34, 35
Wood, Abraham: 33-35
Wood, Abraham Wilson: 34
Wood, Betsey Ann: 34
Wood, Clarinda Walker: 34
Wood, Julia Ann: 34
Wood, Mary Phillips: 24, 33, 34
Wood, Minerva Isabelle: 34
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Wood, Susan Emiline: 34

Y
Yarnell, Francis: 31, 32
Yarnell, Peter: 32
Yarnell, Rachael: 31, 32
Young, Elsie Edith: 27
Young, Ida Alice: 27
Young, James: 20
Young, James E. Wilbert: 20, 26, 27
Young, John: 20
Young, John Moreland: 20
Young, Lloyd Laverne: 27
Young, Mary Jane: 20
Young, Raymond Wilbert: 27
Young, Sarah Ann: 20, 26
Young, Sophia E.: 20

Z
Zeitz, Anna: 24

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