Been researching more Bedford Indiana relatives of my grandma Mary (Reid) Agnew today.
Following her mother’s line, her mother was CORA OWENS. Cora married Charles Reid. I have a picture of them engaged. Charles worked for a stone company (go figure — southern Indiana).
Cora’s parents were Solomon Jordan Owens and Margaret Lemond. They were still born in southern Indiana.
Solomon’s parents were: Owen Owens born in Tennessee; and Frances “Fanny” Hunter born in KY. They are the ones who migrated north to southern Indiana & the Bedford area. They migrated to Indiana sometime between 1810 and 1840.
Margaret Lemond’s parents were John O. Lemond and Rachel Moore. They came from Rockingham County, North Carolina. They migrated to Indiana in that same time period.
— Going back to Charles Reid and Cora Owens, tracing Mary’s father’s line, Charles Reid’s father Alexander Reid was born in KY. His mother, Nancy SMITH came from southern Indiana. NANCY’S PARENTS, Peter Smith and Margaret Ford are buried in Bedford, but Peter came from North Carolina and Margaret from Tennessee. Peter and Margaret would have come west and north to Indiana in that same time period, sometime after 1810 and before Peter’s death in 1849.
Peter Smith’s roots go back to Germany on both his parents’ sides. So from my Grandma Mary Agnew, some of her father’s roots trace back to Germany also. “Schmidt” would be the name there.
WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN?? It means on my family’s side there are strong roots in southern Indiana, & most all of them migrated there during the 1820s-1840s, from NORTH CAROLINA, TENNESSEE AND KY. And it means one side goes back to Germany. But not the Agnews. They will be Irish, English or Scottish eventually. And then there’s my other side: the Dutch.
— Some of those who migrated to southern Indiana have gravestones showing up in Bedford cemetaries online. But a lot of them are not found so far.
Doctor Grandma 
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