REED GENEALOGY
Compiled by Glenn Gohr


My knowledge of this REED connection is through studying the SWAIN and WILLIAMSON family of McNairy County, TN. I am thrilled to have recently learned that Rebecca Williamson's father was Elijah WILLIAMSON who married Sarah REED. Elijah was a Revolutionary War soldier from South Carolina and was pensioned.

Many thanks to Sonya Tilley and David L. Ray who both descend from the Swains of McNairy County, Tennessee, just as I do, for their assistance in finding out about the early Swains prior to William SWAIN and Rebecca WILLIAMSON, which I did not have, and now this connection to Sarah REED. Both Sonya and David have Swain information on the Rootsweb Worldconnect Pages at http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com. I suspect they got a lot of their information from Jeffrey D. Kemp who also descends from the Swains of McNairy County, Tennessee, and has worked on tracing the Swains back to the Carolinas and back to New England and to England.

Here is my REED lineage:

  1. Sarah REED, b. Abt. 1760; md. Elijah WILLIAMSON, b. Abt. 1754 Bertie Co., NC, d. 29 September 1837 Buncombe Co., NC
  2. Rebecca WILLIAMSON, b. ca. 1788 GA, d. ca. 1861 McNairy Co., TN; md. ca. 1800 GA to William SWAIN, b. ca. 1783 SC, d. ca. 1871 McNairy Co., TN
  3. William W. SWAIN, b. ca. 1800 NC, d. ca. 1857 McNairy Co., TN; md. to Rachel ANDERSON, b. ca. 1802, d. ca. 1876 in McNairy Co., TN
  4. Allen Perry SWAIN, b. 22 Feb. 1822 TN, d. aft. 1860 McNairy Co., TN; md. ca. 1845 McNairy Co., TN to Harriett Ann SEWELL, b. 22 Jan. 1829 McNairy Co., TN, d. ca. 1860 McNairy Co., TN
  5. Sarah Elizabeth SWAIN, b. 12 Oct. 1846 McNairy Co., TN, d. 12 May 1934 McNairy Co., TN; md. 17 Sept. 1867 McNairy Co., TN to William Henry PYRON, b. 8 Jan. 1846 McNairy Co., TN, d. 20 Sept. 1909 McNairy Co., TN (both buried at Mars Hill Cemetery, McNairy Co., TN)
  6. Docia Bell PYRON, b. 5 Oct. 1872 McNairy Co., TN, d. 1 Sept. 1944 Lyford, Willacy Co., TX (buried at Combes, TX); md. 28 Oct. 1894 McNairy Co., TN to James David HARRIS, b. 9 Jan. 1871 McNairy Co., TN, d. 22 Sept. 1938 Marlow, Stephens Co., OK (buried at Marlow Cemetery, Marlow, OK)
  7. William Earl HARRIS, b. 8 Aug. 1895 McNairy Co., TN, d. 5 Jan. 1967 Cortez, Montezuma Co., CO; md. 12 Dec. 1915 Parker Co., TX to Orpha Antonia Hazel GARVIN, b. 11 Nov. 1895 Jack Co., TX, d. 21 Dec. 1979 Cortez, Montezuma Co., CO (both buried in the Dove Creek Cemetery, Dove Creek, CO) *These are my grandparents.



REED E-MAIL LIST


If you have queries concerning the REED surname, you may post these at the Reed Family Genealogy List which is a part of the Rootsweb e-mail discussion lists. It offers free queries and discussion on the Reed surname and variant spellings.

To subscribe, send an e-mail to: [email protected]
Leave subject line blank (This will be ignored).
In the body of the message type: subscribe

Then a welcome message will be sent telling how to post messages. Once you are subscribed, you may send a query to everyone on the list by sending e-mail to: [email protected]

Archived postings to the Reed e-mail list can be found on the WEB at:

    https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/

When prompted, type in REED for the name of the list. A second screen will appear where you can choose a year and type in a search word(s). If you type in REED you would probably get all the previous postings to the list. You can also type in a person's name instead or a locality to narrow your search. If you wish to do a search by date, try entering it in quotation marks with the day and then the month as "01 Mar" using single digit dates preceded by a zero and only the first three letters of the month.




ROOTSWEB REED MESSAGE BOARDS

There are several Message Boards on Rootsweb which are set up for the REED surname. These boards are for posting information in the following categories: BIBLE, BIOGRAPHY, BIRTH, CEMETERY, CENSUS, DEATH, DEED, IMMIGRATION, LOOKUP, MARRIAGE, MILITARY, OBITUARY, PENSION, QUERIES, and WILLS. The search perameters and drop down screen on the main page allow you to do a key word search or to view all postings according to one of the above categories. Click on the icon below to access the Reed Message Boards.

Query Post a query (or information from any one of the above categories) on any REED name or related family. Please give dates, and locations they lived. Try to give as much information as possible.





An online genealogy forum for posting queries has also been set up specifically for the REED family on GenForum. It can be found at the following address:

    http://genforum.familytreemaker.com/reed

***Note***During the Fall of 1998, GenForum combined with Family Tree Maker, which means that all queries and information posted to that site becomes the property of Family Tree Maker. This is still a good site to look up information and get contact names for the REED lines you are searching, but be advised that if you now post a new query or a response to something on that site, chances are that sometime in the future Family Tree Maker will include that information on a CD-ROM which they will sell for profit to anyone who is interested. I do not like the idea of someone else using my hard researched information and ideas and selling them for a profit without my knowledge. This same practice is evident on all of the Family Tree Maker pages which are found on the internet, if you will read the disclaimer notices on those pages. I recommend the Family Tree Maker pages as good look up pages, but I don't recommend posting information there. Similar things can be said for Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com which are connected to each other and seek to make a profit from genealogical materials on the internet.




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Last updated June 1, 2003.


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