This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Reed, Flake, Ragsdale Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sh.2ADI/2289 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on the family of James Reed. I believe his wife was Mary Flake. Mary Reed is listed as an heir on Adam Flake's estate, in the probate records in 1838 in Dearborn County. James Reed in listed in the Dearborn County census records in 1820, 1830, and 1840. I cannot find James Reed in the 1850 census, but there is a Mary Reed listed in the Dearborn 1850 census at the age of 60. I found the names Reed and Flake on my GGG-grandmothers (Jane Reed 1820-1910)) death certificate, listed as parents. Jane Reed married William Ragsdale in 1844 in Dearborn County, and moved to Daviess County Indiana between 1850 and 1860.