Susanna West Reed 1817-1893

REED, WEST, NOBLE, TRACY, WALTERS, HENDRIX, FITCH

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Date: 3/27/2008 at 20:52:43

Afton Enterprise
Afton, Iowa, Dec. 21, 1893

DIED—At her home in Jones township, on Wednesday morning, December 6, 1893, after a lingering illness of eight months, Mrs. Susanna Reed, aged seventy years, eight months and fourteen days.

Susanna West was born March 22nd, 1817, in York county, Pennsylvania, but moved to Ohio while yet a child.

August 11, 1835, she was married in Cadiz, Ohio, to Quinton Reed, who died May 8th, 1889.

In the autumn of 1856, she with her family removed to Union county, Iowa, where she has since resided with the exception of the four years from 1857 to 1861, which were spent by them in Missouri.

She was the mother of ten children, eight of whom still live; John Reed and Mrs. Maria Noble of this county, Mrs. Hannah Tracy of Kans., Fred Reed of Montgomery county, J. N. Reed of Oregon, Mrs. Martha Walters, of Pottawattamie county, Mrs. Jane Hendrix of Afton and Mrs. Sarah Fitch of Union county.

Besides her children she numbered among her descendants sixty-six grandchildren, fifty-five of whom are still living and twenty-five great grandchildren of whom twenty-three are living, thus making her the head of a living family of eighty-six at the time of her death.

At an early age she was converted and became a member of the Christian church and through her whole life has proven a faithful worker in the Master’s vineyard. The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. John Reed of Thayer, assisted by Rev. Baxter of Lorimor, at the West Union church, Thursday afternoon at one o’clock, after which the remains were interred in the West Union cemetery. There were six children and about twenty grand children besides a multitude of other relatives present who wish to extend their thanks to the friends and neighbors who gave them so much aid and sympathy in their time of need.