1817 Mary Weaver, daughter of Samuel Weaver and Anna Marie Bowman, was born on May 2. [1] [2]
1818 Abraham I. Reed, son of William Reed and Christina Wenger, was born on July 1, 1818. [3]
1830 Abraham Reed's parents moved from Virginia to Ohio.
1845 Abraham Reed [Read] and Mary Weaver were married on 20 March by Henry Stauffer in Columbiana County, Ohio [4]. [Photocopy, Marriage records for Abraham Reed and Mary Weaver.]
1848 Anna Reed, daughter of Abraham Reed and Mary Weaver, was born on December 15, in Ohio. [5] [6]
1850 Abraham Reed (age 32, born in Virginia), farmer, and wife Mary (age 33, born PA) lived in Beaver Twp, Mahoning County, Ohio with estate valued at $1000 and children Henry (age 5), Noah (age 3), Aaron (age 1), Anna (age 1), and male Solomon (age 14) listed after the other children. [7]
1860 Abraham I Reed (age 41, born in Virginia) lived in Beaver Twp, Mahoning County, Ohio, in a household with Mary Reed (age 43), Henry Reed (age 14), Noah Reed (age 12), Aaron Reed (age 10), Anna Reed (age 10), Abraham Reed (age 8), Lydia Reed (age 7), Mary Reed (age 7), and Elias Reed (age 4). [8]
1860 Land of A J Reed [sic, A I Reed] is shown on a map [9] of Beaver Twp, Mahoning County, Ohio, section 18. [Photocopy] Map of land of A J Reed, section 18, in Beaver Township, Mahoning County, Ohio 1860. The tract is part of the land that father Sanders Reed owned, according to an 1841 map of Beaver Twp, Columbiana County. [10]
1861 Abraham Reed moved with his family from Mahoning County, Ohio, to Union Township, Elkhart County, Indiana on February 25. He was a farmer. The family were Mennonites and resided in Elkhart County, Indiana. Their children were Henry W. Reed, Noah W. Reed, Aaron Reed, Anna Reed, Abraham W. Reed, Lydia Reed, Mary Reed, and Elias W. Reed.
1866 Abraham I Reed, in New Paris, subscribed to the Herald of Truth. [11]
1870 Abraham Reed (age 52) was listed as a farmer with estate valued at $4300+$1000 in Union City, Elkhart County, Indiana, born in Virginia with wife Mary (cannot write)(age 53 born PA), and Noah (age 23), Aaron (age 21), Anna (age 21)(cannot write), Abraham (age 19), Mary (age 17), Lydia (age 17), and Elias (age 15). Nearby was Abraham's sister Harriet Christophel. [12] [13]
1875 Daughter Anna married Elias Stoner, son of Joseph Stoner.
1880 Abraham Reed was listed as a disabled retired farmer in Union City, Elkhart County, Indiana (age 61) with wife Mary (age 62, cannot write) and males Noah, (farmer, age 30), and Elias, (carpenter, age 24). Son Abraham (age 26) lived with father-in-law Solomon Sheets nearby. Mary Weaver (age 20) was a servant. [14]
1897 The will of Abraham I Reed was in probate court on Wednesday. [15]
1897 Abraham I Reed died on March 2, at age 78y 8m 1d, and was buried at Yellow Creek Frame (wisler) Cemetery. [16]
1897 Abraham I Reed died on March 2 and was buried at Yellow Creek Frame Cemetery, Elkhart County, Indiana. Abraham I Reed was born in 1818. [17] [18]
1900 Mary Reed (born in Pennsylvania in Mar 1817, widowed), mother in law, lived in Union Twp, Elkhart County, Indiana, in a household with Samuel Ramer (age 43), Lydia Ramer (age 47), Aarenno Ramer (age 20), Mary Ramer (age 17), Noah Ramer (age 14), and Daniel Ramer (age 12). Mary Reed's parents were both born in Pennsylvania. Mary Reed had had 1 child, 1 still living. [19]
1901 Mary Reed died on October 2, at age 84y 7m, and was buried at Yellow Creek Frame (Wisler) Cemetery. [20] [21]
1901 Mary Weaver Reed died on October 2 and was buried at Yellow Creek Frame Cemetery, Elkhart County, Indiana. Mary Weaver Reed was born in 1817. [22] [23]
1901 An obituary for Mary Weaver Reed reported [24]:
Reed - On the 2d of October, 1901, in Union township, Elkhart County, Indiana, of the infirmities of old age, Sister Mary Reed, widow of Bro. Abraham I. Reed, (deceased), aged 84 years, 7 months. She was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania., and in her teens moved with her parents, Samuel and Anna Weaver, to Mahoning County, Ohio, where she was married on the 20th of March, 1845. They both united with the Mennonite church in their youth. To them were born five sons and four daughters. In March, 1861, they moved to Elkhart County, Indiana, where they lived the remainder of their days. Father preceded her four years and seven months. Her remains were laid to rest on the 4th, in the Yellow Creek cemetery. Funeral services by Martin Ramer in German, and by David Burkholder in English. Texts, Rev. 14:13 and Luke 23:28.
Research Notes:
"Abraham I. Reed b- 7- 1-1818 d- 3- 2-1897, son of William S. & Christina (Wenger) Reed, married Mary (Mericha) Weaver, 3-20-1845, b- 3- 2-1817 died 10- 2-1901, dau of Samuel & Anna (Bowman) Weaver. Abraham was born in Rockingham County, Va. Mary was born in Berks County, Pa. Abraham was a little over twelve years when his family moved to Ohio, where he grew to manhood. He was married and their children were all born in Ohio.". [25]
"Abraham the oldest child being a little over 12 years of age when they (his parents) moved to Ohio where he grew to manhood. Was married and their children were also all born in Ohio. On February 25, 1861, he moved with his family from Mahoning County, Ohio to Union Twp, Elkhart County, Indiana. On Jan. 21, 1851, he had the misfortune of breaking his left leg and on Feb. 4 had the same amputated. Abraham I. Reed died March 2, 1897, aged 78 yrs., 7 mo.". [26]
A biosketch reports [27]:
Abraham Reed was twelve years of age when the family moved from Virginia to Ohio, and he was reared in the latter State. On March 20, 1845, he was wedded to Miss Mary Weaver, a native of Pennsylvania, born March 2, 1817, and the daughter of Samuel and Anna (Bowman) Weaver. Mr. and Mrs. Weaver were pioneers of Ohio, and both died in Columbiana county, Mrs. Weaver September 11, 1843, aged forty-nine years, and her husband nine years later at the age of sixty-eight years. Abraham Reed and wife lived in Ohio until 1861, when they sold out and moved to Indiana, purchasing their present farm in Elkhart county. In 1851, while in the timber business in the Buckeye State, Mr. Reed met with an accident by which he lost his left leg. For forty years he has been engaged in agricultural pursuits without the use of that leg, and that, of course, has made his work much harder. He and his worthy companion have a good farm of eighty acres in Union township, and are highly respected members of the community. They are conscientious Christians and active members of the Mennonite Church. In politics Mr. Reed has ever been a Republican. He is a man interested in the public good, and in his younger days was a teacher, following that profession for twelve years and teaching both English and German. Mr. Reed and wife have reared five sons and three daughters, as follows: Henry, born June 20, 1846, now resides on a dairy farm at Mishawaka; Noah, born October 7, 1847, is a farmer and is also engaged in the saw-mill business in Union township; Aaron, born December 15, 1848, is a farmer and carpenter of Harrison township; Abraham, born February 4, 1851, is a farmer of Union township; Elias, born July 27, 1855, resides in Mahoning county, Ohio, near where he was born; Anna, born December 15, 1848, married Samuel Ramer and resides in Morgan county, Mo.; Lydia, born December 12, 1852, is also married to a Samuel Ramer. and resides on a farm in Union township, and Mary, married Joel Snyder and resides on the old home place. Mr. and Mrs. Reed have about thirty-five grandchildren.
"177.--Abraham I. Reed 46, born Rockingham Co, Va., July 1, 1818; died (???); m. Mary Weaver: born May 2, 1817; died (???); daut. of Samuel Weaver. Mennonite; farmer; res., Elkhart County, Indiana. Issue: Henry W., Noah W., Aaron, Anna, Abraham W., Lydia, Mary, and Elias W." [28]
See also [29] and Mennonite records [30]
[1] Harry M. Hoover, The Huber-Hoover Family History (1928), 67, person 177, [FamilySearch FSCatalog].
[2] Jonas G. Wenger, Martin D. Wenger, and Joseph H. Wenger, History of the Descendants of Christian Wenger (1903), 26, reports date 2 March, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[3] Jonas G. Wenger, Martin D. Wenger, and Joseph H. Wenger, History of the Descendants of Christian Wenger (1903), 25, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[4] Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[5] Texas Deaths, 1890-1976, Death certificates, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[6] Goodspeed Brothers, publishers, Pictorial and biographical memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph counties (1893), 637, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[7] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[8] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[9] J. W. Canfield and William Schuchman, Map of Mahoning County, Ohio (1860), [LibraryOfCongress Map], [LibraryOfCongress Catalog].
[10] Lewis Vail Esq., Map of Columbiana County, Ohio, compiled by J.P. Willard (1841), [LibraryOfCongress Map], [LibraryOfCongress].
[11] John Christian Wenger, The Yellow Creek Mennonites: The Original Mennonite Congregations of Western Elkhart County (1985), 24, [GoogleBooks].
[12] United States Federal Census, 1870, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[13] United States Federal Census, 1870, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[14] United States Federal Census, 1880, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[15] Newspaper, Elkhart Weekly Review (Indiana), March 20, 1897.
[16] Elkhart County Genealogical Society, Cemeteries of Elkhart County, Indiana, Vol. 2 (1990), 92, [GoogleBooks].
[17] Find A Grave Memorial 77550239, [FindAGrave].
[18] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[19] United States Federal Census, 1900, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[20] Indiana, U.S., WPA Death Index, 1882-1920, [AncestryRecord].
[21] Elkhart County Genealogical Society, Cemeteries of Elkhart County, Indiana, Vol. 2 (1990), 92, [GoogleBooks].
[22] Find A Grave Memorial 75657799, [FindAGrave].
[23] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[24] Mennonite Obituary Archives, Herald of Truth, November, 1901, [MennObits].
[25] Samuel S. Wenger, The Wenger Book, A Foundation Book of American Wengers (1997 reprint), 224.
[26] Ezra Nelson Stauffer, Weber or Weaver Family History (1953), 54, [GoogleBooks].
[27] Goodspeed Brothers, publishers, Pictorial and biographical memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph counties (1893), 637, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[28] Harry M. Hoover, The Huber-Hoover Family History (1928), 67, person 177, [FamilySearch FSCatalog].
[29] John Christian Wenger, The Yellow Creek Mennonites: The Original Mennonite Congregations of Western Elkhart County (1985), 24, [GoogleBooks].
[30] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].