REID, Mary A. (1832-1928)

REID

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 9/5/2020 at 22:53:40

Mary Anne (Lockhart) Reid
(March 12, 1832 - June 15, 1928)

Ida County Pioneer, Ida Grove, Iowa, Wed., Jan 21, 1925, p.1
Here’s First List of Citizens Who Are Over Eighty

Mr. and Mrs. David Reid of Ida Grove are a splendid old couple, whose combined ages are nearly 177 years. The Pioneer man called upon them Saturday and found that they are highly interesting and very pleasant people. Mrs. Reid was Mary Anne Lockhart and was born at Rockville, near North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland on March 12, 1832 and will be 93 years old in a short time. She and her husband were married June 18, 1872 in Scotland and came to America in 1880, visiting for three months with her brother at Cedar Rapids. They then came to Ida County in the summer of 1880 and bought a farm northeast of Ida Grove near the former Epworth church. They sold off 120 acres to E. P. Smith and continued to live on the forty acres, until a fire visited them in 1917 and destroyed their home. They then moved to Ida Grove. They have had two children, Thomas Lockhart Reid, who died in March 1895 at the age of 22 years and Miss Ada Reid, who makes her home with them. Mr. Reid will be 84 years old the eighth of next July, having been born near Cold Stream in Berwickshire, Scotland. Both Mr. and Mrs. Reid have vigorous good health for their years, although the latter’s hearing is now a little impaired. She loves a joke and a friendly visitor and says she has never been sick much. Her father lived to be 35 years old. She says with a chuckle that the reason she has lived so long is because she has always done as she pleased. Just to show The Pioneer man how spry she was, she skipped through several measures of a Highland fling, the accompaniement of the accordion played by his daughter. Mr. Reid says he is some musician himself, his specialty being the violin and his favorite selection those old, old words of Burns, “A Mon’s a Mon for A’ That’. Mr. Reid in his early years was a member of the Established Church of Scotland and his wife, of the Episcopal Church. Both now attend the Presbyterian worship when circumstances permit.