I was helping a family member look for a W.R.Reed and wife Mayme Gunn Reed who were found in OK census records of 1930 (William Reed and wife Mayme, daughter Artie and daughter and another child (female). In 1932 Mr. & Mrs. Reed lost their children to the Colorado Home For Dependent Children where after a time Maxine and Thelma were adopted out and Artie Reed grew up in foster care being forced to use the first name of Nancy and foster parents last name. She is now living in Oregon still wanting to find at least her parents graves or other living ancestor cousins who can help her fill in the blanks. I have lost touch with them as they moved and I went back to school but when I saw your post about W.R. Reed with a sister in Tulsa, Ok it peeked my curiosity. In the court papers Nancy (Artie) got from the court house it listed her father as W.R. Reed I had thought. Her daughter Christine is now doing this research. Her former e-mail addy was [email protected] something. Since she moved this has all changed. If anyone recognizes any of this and knows her current e-mail address I hope they contact her. I believe in the census records it gave Mr. Reed's age as 35 and stated he was born in Arkansas but that his father was born in Tenn. This may or may not be correct info as Mr. and Mrs. Reed took the children and ran knowing social services were coming back to get them and when they found them the police according to Nancy (Artie) were shooting in the woods at her father and her mother was taken into custody. Nancy (Artie) is now in her seventies and has been told that her sister's passed away I think. It would be nice since the state of Colorado denied her her rights to use her own name and have her own birth certificate after becoming of age since she was never adopted could have some closure. It seems very unconstitutional that the state of Colorado could do such a horrible thing and stick to denying her her rights all these years. ----- Original Message ----- From: "barb brown" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 3:22 PM Subject: [REED] Re: Reed's starting in Indiana > Here is the information from William Riley Reed's obit > and funeral notices from Vernon County, Nevada Mo. > > Nevada Daily Mail- Tue. Aug. 9, 1932 > > W.R. Reed, father of W.W. Reed and Willard Reed of > this city, passed away Tuesday morning at his home > southwest of Nevada. Mr. Reeds death occured after a > long illness. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Mary Ellen > Reed and several children. One daughter, Mrs. Charles > Bowen of Tulsa Ok. has been here for the past three > weeks. The arrangements have not been completed. > > Nevada Daily Mail- Wed. Aug. 10,1932 > > Funeral services for W.R. Reed whose death occured > Tuesday morning will be held at 2:30 thursday > afternoon at Ferry Funeral Home on South Washington > Street. Internment will be made in Moore's Cemetary. > William Riley Reed was born Dec. 17, 1856 in Randolph > County, In. Mr. Reed was married for forty-eight years > to Miss Mary Ellen Hayward, who with seven children > survive him. The surviving children are: W.W. Reed and > Willard Reed of Nevada Mo., Mrs. Charles Bowen of > Tulsa Ok., Mrs. Andrew Varner of Abington, Il., Mrs. > Harry Blachley of Sentinel, Ok., Mrs. Earl Comstock of > Mulberry, Kansas and Mrs. John Strain of Willow > Springs. Mr. Reed had been a resident of Vernon County > for the past sixteen years. > > >From the 1930 Census for Moundville, Vernon County, > Mo. it states that William Riley was first married at > the age of 24, abt.1880, but didn't marry Mary Ellen > till 1886 in Bates County, Butler Mo. According to > 1890 Census a daughter Geneva Drucilla was born in Mo. > in 1883, so she was from his first marriage > presumabley. > > Hope fully this information will help me to obtain > more information on William Riley Reed. > > Barbara > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

My research is for Reeds that are in the 1800's. As far as I know the only male Reeds from my ggrandfather were Winnie and Willard, and Winnie only had a daughter and my Willard's sons are all in Butte Montana. Sorry Barbara __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com