This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: REED, BISHOP, WEST, LAWRENCE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DAw.2ACIB/247.350.351.354.1 Message Board Post: I am descended from Joseph REED and Jane BISHOP through my great-great-grandmother, Elizabeth REED who m. Christopher Columbus WEST about 1850 in Alabama (Cherokee County's early marriage records were burned). I only learned of this line recently and it surely is nice to encounter a cousin.