{"id":51,"date":"2011-05-19T11:10:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T18:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terisblog.norsky.net\/2011\/05\/19\/the-reeds-of-ashmore\/"},"modified":"2011-05-19T11:10:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T18:10:02","slug":"the-reeds-of-ashmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Reeds of Ashmore\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/officeimg.vo.msecnd.net\/en-us\/images\/MH900231545.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My distant cousin, Dr. Michael Hayden, wrote <em>The Reeds of Ashmore <\/em>in the 1980&#8217;s. Numerous Reed descendants grace its pages, and this week I have been using a book I acquired via inter-library loan to update the family stories that Michael gathered. <em>Ashmore Illinois 1800-2000 <\/em>follows the pattern of the 19th-century &#8220;mug&#8221; books used by genealogists, and it is chock full of Reeds and their relatives who still live around Ashmore. This week I have added dozens of people to my database and learned about their lives. Many are professional people who got their start by attending nearby Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois. A few still farm the Reed family land. Some have married neighbors; others have wed people from as far away as Africa and Japan. We may not know one another, but we are all connected by our descent from Ann Kirkham and Thomas Reed, Ashmore pioneers of 1830.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My distant cousin, Dr. Michael Hayden, wrote The Reeds of Ashmore in the 1980&#8217;s. Numerous Reed descendants grace its pages, and this week I have been using a book I acquired via inter-library loan to update the family stories that Michael gathered. Ashmore Illinois 1800-2000 follows the pattern of the 19th-century &#8220;mug&#8221; books used by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}