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Alexander Reid

My daughters or I can join D.A.R. through this person, my 4th great-grandfather, Alexander Reid, b.1755 in Greenbriar, VA, died 1851 Bedford, Indiana. AL & I found his gravesite on one visit off I65 in the middle of nowhere. There is documentation he fought and was wounded in the Battle of Germantown & the Battle of Monmouth, was discharged, later re-enlisted & was captured at the seige of Charleston, detained a month & then “made his escape”. He rec’d a pension from the govt., lived in KY & later southern Indiana. He married Rebeccah Mitchell & they had 9 children, the 9th being Thomas Reid, b. in Madison, KY in 1800. Thomas married Sarah Sallie Owen. Their 4th child was Alexander J. Reid b.1829 in KY. He married Nancy Jane Smith, & their 4th child was Charles Reid, my Grandma Mary Reid Agnew’s FATHER.

My Grandma Mary grew up in southern Indiana. That’s how she somehow met my Grandpa John Wesley Agnew down there around New Albany. She grew up in the hills & dales of southern Indiana, farther north from New Albany. It is a very pretty rolling countryside part of Indiana.
Our REID family line leads back to Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND, and then to Ulster, IRELAND. If you notice, the map of Lanarkshire Scotland is just to the east of where the AGNEWS originate from Scotland, in Lochnaw, Stranraer.
IOW, the Agnew family tree definitely leads to SW Scotland, & from there over to Ireland, & then to America.
        Alexander Reid Tanksley cem.    Lanarkshire Scotland

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