Doctor Grandma

If I were to “go home” for me, personally, I would live in southern Indiana. The patriarch James Agnew settled there after the Civil War (coming there from Ohio) & lots of Agnew relatives still all live there in New Albany. We are some of the very few who left. My grandma Mary Reid who married John Wesley Agnew (son of James) grew up in Bedford. Her family settled there, coming up from Kentucky. Today I was researching her family some more.

 

Mary’s parents were Charles Reid and Cora Belle Owens.

 

Charles’ parents were Alexander J. Reid (b.1929) and Nancy Jane (Smith) (b.1834). Both Alexander and Nancy came to southern Indiana from Kentucky. They seem to have been married in 1850. Nancy reports this in one census, but I cannot find any official marriage record, so far. Nancy reports she got married in 1850, at age 16.

 

They had 9 children. Charles, my great-grandfather, was # 6. He was born in 1865. His siblings were:

Martha b.1854

Thomas Hugh b.1857

Sarah b.1859

Mary L. b.1862

John Marshall b.1863 and lived as an adult in Indianapolis

Charles b.1865 (my great-grandfather)

Ida B., b.1867, married Frank Turner

Nelly G., also called “Emma” b.1870

and the baby, George W., b.1872.

*There seems to be another son, John, who is listed as a brother surviving Charles in 1917, but I do not find him in any census record so far.

 

In 1900, the mother, Nancy Jane, was living only with son Thomas Hugh, but still listed herself as married. Where was Alexander, her husband?? I do not know. Alexander lived to 1909.

This son, Thomas, was 43 and not married in 1900.

 

Nancy lived to 1912. I still need to find her in 1910 (where she was living & w/ who).

Nancy and Alexander are buried together, in Bedford. I have enclosed their marker. Green Hill cemetary.

 

Charles Reid, their son & my great-grandfather, dies of diabetes at age (52), in 1917. At that time, he was a stone mason in Bloomington. He is buried also in Bedford.