Lebanon Express Feb. 27, 1936 LEBANON'S OLD PIONEER TAKES LAST LONG TRAIL John Gerald Reed, 97 Oregon pioneer of 1852, whose death closed the final chapter of the 76 years of married life he had shared with his wife, Anna Bon Reed, 93, pioneer of '83, who survives, received the final tribute of the Lebanon community in which he had lived since he came here as a youth of 14, a member of a covered wagon emigrant train that crossed the plains to Oregon, when simple funeral services were held in the Hose chapel Monday, February 24, 1935(type o in the paper) at 2 p.m. He died Saturday afternoon, February 22nd. He was born in Burlington Iowa August 31, 1838, he attended school and spent his boyhood in that community. Then with his family in 1852 he made the long trek across the continent to the Oregon frontier. There were 24 wagons in the train, which was in charge of hi grandfather, father of his mother, Nettie Morgan Reed, a native of Kentucky. His father James N. Reed, a native of Illinois was another leader of the party that suffered deaths of a portion of its members by drowning and the dreaded cholera, but ultimately arrived at its destination, Linn county, where his family first settled, remained his home for the remainder of his life. He was married on September 21, 1859, the same year that Oregon became a state to Miss Anna Bond at the home of the bride's father, Nathan W. Bond, on the Santiam river near Albany, southeast of Knox Butte. Her parents, Nathan and Elizabeth Traylor Bond, had moved to Linn county form near Jefferson, where they had spent their first winter in Oregon at the home of her uncle, Jesse Looney, who came to Jefferson as a member of the first emigrant party of 1843 that lad the way to Oregon. Mr. Reed joined the Idaho gold rush of 1866, then returned to the Willamette valley for a more settled life as a farmer. For years the Reeds lived on their large farm, bordering the banks of the Santiam river. The later ears of their life have been spent in Lebanon, where they resided in the home they built here in 1890, one of the residential landmarks of the city. Mr. Reed was physically and mentally active up until the time of his death. Besides his widow he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Denny of 1710 S. W. Third avenue, Portland; a son, Austin Reed, living on the original Bond donation land claim, near Albany; and two adopted children, their own grandchildren, John Reed, Lebanon, and Mrs. Beatrice Wetzel, Lewiston, Idaho, whose mother, a daughter of the Reeds, Mrs. Effa Reed Bodwell, died in 1927. On son, Clifton Reed, died in his youth. Six great-grandchildren and two great-grandchildren survived also. Officiating at the funeral service was Rev. George W. Simon. Pallbearers, all pioneer men of the community were James M. Burtenshaw, Jon M. Donaca, William H. Todd, Charles Devine, Sheridan Bollinger and John Burrell. Interment was in the Riverview cemetery, Albany.