{"id":679,"date":"2015-03-01T16:56:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T23:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=679"},"modified":"2015-03-26T08:47:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T15:47:38","slug":"carter-cousins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=679","title":{"rendered":"Carter Cousins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"My great-grandfather, Samuel Harvey Reed (1845-1928) came from the small town of Ashmore, Illinois. I always knew he had a big family there.<\/p>\n

Mostly, I knew of all the Reed cousins. One Reed descendant wrote a book called The Reeds of Ashmore<\/em> back in the 1980’s. He traced our Reed line from Samuel’s grandfather Thomas, an original settler in Ashmore. I have used this book a lot, and consequently I am familiar with the names of Samuel’s cousins on his father Caleb Reed’s side:<\/p>\n

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  1. Daniel Reed<\/li>\n
  2. Nancy Jane Reed<\/li>\n
  3. Caleb Robertson Reed<\/li>\n
  4. William Fred Reed<\/li>\n
  5. Mary E. Reed<\/li>\n
  6. James Reed<\/li>\n
  7. Kate Reed<\/li>\n
  8. Susan Ann McAlister<\/li>\n
  9. Thomas Alison Walton<\/li>\n
  10. Nancy Jane Walton<\/li>\n
  11. Jerome G. “Aris” Walton<\/li>\n
  12. Martha Ellen Walton<\/li>\n
  13. Nevada Dorcas Walton<\/li>\n
  14. James Thomas Galbreath<\/li>\n
  15. William Riley Galbreath<\/li>\n
  16. Anna Eliza Galbreath<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    All these cousins lived near Ashmore, and Samuel obviously knew them well. In 1872 he even served as a witness for Mary Reed’s will shortly before she died at age nineteen.<\/p>\n

    These Reed cousins comprise only half of Samuel’s extended family. His mother Jane Carter, also from Ashmore, had many siblings, too. Thus Samuel had Carter cousins as well. This year I am finally working to identify the grandchildren of John Carter (Jane’s father), and so far I have this incomplete list:<\/p>\n

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    1. Edith Austin<\/li>\n
    2. Susan C. Boyd<\/li>\n
    3. Caleb Boyd<\/li>\n
    4. G. R. Boyd<\/li>\n
    5. Gus Boyd<\/li>\n
    6. Tabitha J. Boyd<\/li>\n
    7. Mary Ann Boyd<\/li>\n
    8. John Boyd<\/li>\n
    9. John M. Carter<\/li>\n
    10. John J. Collins<\/li>\n
    11. William J. Carter<\/li>\n
    12. Thomas B. Carter<\/li>\n
    13. David W. Carter<\/li>\n
    14. Mary J. Carter<\/li>\n
    15. Alice M. Carter<\/li>\n
    16. John A. Carter<\/li>\n
    17. Delilah B. Carter<\/li>\n
    18. Jacob S. Carter<\/li>\n
    19. Margaret Ellen Carter<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      I am confident I will find the names of even more Carter cousins. I am in the process of working through the census records for all of Jane’s siblings to see how many I can locate. Samuel Reed must have been related to nearly everyone in Ashmore!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      My great-grandfather, Samuel Harvey Reed (1845-1928) came from the small town of Ashmore, Illinois. I always knew he had a big family there. Mostly, I knew of all the Reed cousins. One Reed descendant wrote a book called The Reeds of Ashmore back in the 1980’s. He traced our Reed line from Samuel’s grandfather Thomas, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy","category-reed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}