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Date: 1/19/2013 at 21:43:28

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Birth: Oct. 12, 1783
Acworth
Sullivan County
New Hampshire, USA
Death: Oct., 1846
Bonaparte
Van Buren County
Iowa, USA

John Reed, son of Supply and Susanna (Byam) Reed, was born on 12 October 1783 at Acworth, New Hampshire. He married Rebecca Bearce, daughter of Josiah Bearce. She was born on 30 September 1785 in New Milford, [Litchfield County,] Connecticut. He moved from Acworth, New Hampshire to Kirtland, Ohio around 1820 with his family of four at age 37, where he did the ironwork for the first Mormon temple in the U.S. there. John Reed was baptized into the Mormon faith in 1830, the earliest date on record. He is listed in their records as a "High Priest" on the Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register and was a personal friend of Joseph Smith. The Mormon records list him as one of those "Latter-Day Saints who received a special blessing in Kirtland for working on the construction of the Mormon Temple 7-8 March 1835." Later he moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, which is on the Mississippi River across from Keokuk, Iowa. The Mormons fragmented after Smith's assassination in 1844. John Reed apparently left Nauvoo with the main group of Mormons in 1846 but he stayed in Iowa. As the Mormons moved west across Iowa, they established several semi-permanent settlements where they built cabins and planted crops. These stations provided rest and provisions for wagon trains that followed during the next few years. It was at one of these communities that John died at age 65. His wife Rebecca died four months later in Pottawattamie County, across the Missouri River from the main Mormon camp, Winter Quarters, near Omaha, Nebraska.

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Bonaparte Cemetery
Bonaparte
Van Buren County
Iowa, USA

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Record added: Feb 24, 2011
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