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Obituary of James Reid
Contributed by Annette Carroll 03/2008
The Gate City newspaper, Keokuk,
Iowa, Mar 19, 1868:
REID - Died at his residence near Charleston, in this county, on the 16Th
instant, at 15 minutes past 10:00PM, after a short illness, James Reid, in the
85Th year of his age.
The subject of this notice, the father of General Hugh T. Reid and Col. J.M.
Reid, of this city was a native of Abbeville District, South Carolina and was of
Scotch Irish Descent.
His father, Hugh Reid was one of "Marion's Men" in the American Revolution and
fought at the Battle of King's Mountain and other engagements, and was made a
Colonel before the close of the war. His son (James) married Miss Anna Thompson,
also of the same District, emigrated to Indiana, then a territory and opened a
farm in the wilderness, amid many privations, the lives of the early settlers
being in constant peril from Indians. In the War of 1812, he participated in the
defense of the frontier. He has been married for the third time, his first wife
dying thirty-six years ago today, his second wife died without issue, and his
third still survives him.
In 1845 he sold out his farm and removed to this country, in which he had
resided on the day of his death, just twenty-three years.
He was of an active temperament with an iron constitution and never seriously
ill till within the last two years and retained his mental faculties to the
last.
A pious member of the Presbyterian Church, he died as he had always lived, true
to the faith of his fathers.
With a genial temperament, he was a man of decided character and to the
strictest integrity he added generosity and tolerance towards all men.
Ever ready to succor the poor and unfortunate, he gave without ostentation to
the extent of his ability. He never sought and always persistently refused
public offices.
An old man verging on three score years and ten, longer than few men ever live,
the sun of his life is now set forever in peace and the last rays of it's
lingering twilight closed in the night of death, and the tears of those who
loved him, with the fond endearments of kindred affection cannot revoke the
decree which mingles his inanimate clay with its mother dust.
(Annette Carroll's Note: Hugh T. Reid and James M. Reid are James' sons from his
first marriage. No other children from James' first marriage and none including
my Lafayette Wasson Reid, from his last marriage, are listed. Neither is the
name of his wife, Lavina, who was still living at the time of his death. To date
we have been unable to prove the items regarding James father, Hugh fighting as
one of Marion's Men in the Rev. War and James having fought in the War of 1812.)
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