Spent part of the day today at the Kansas City National Archives. We have a fairly illusive Reed family. We know that my husbands great grandmother was Susan Mildred Reed born in 1860 and died in 1896. We did find a 1900 Missouri census that showed a Charles T. Reed living with her husband. But, that was all we knew. We did not know her mothers name nor any of her siblings. The 1900 1870 Missouri Census Salt springs township, Randolph County, Missouri. Reed, Charles T. age 36 farmer born in Va. E. J. 28 keeping house Ky. John W. 13 C. H. 11 S. M. 9 James T. 7 H. O. 5 The three older children had all been listed as having attended school in the last year. And, all of the children were born in Missouri. The census indicated that neither of the parents could write. And, it indicated that none of the children could either. But, this strikes me as being rather odd. The section indicating they could not read was not checked on anyone. But, could they all read and not write. And, if the children had all been attending school, why could they not write? We did not find out as much information today as we would have liked to. But, I think we have confirmed that the S. M. is probably Susan Mildred Reed my husbands great grandmother and that her fathers name was Charles T. On the 1900 census I was not sure if it was a T. or a J. But, the funny thing is the census taker must have made an error. The name of Charles T. Reed is plain, but something had been written there earlier and then penciled or lined out. Also a blotch on the value of person property column. It looks a 4, but there is a blotch on the paper there too. Looks like it might have read 48. So, now it looks like we know that her mothers initials were E. J. and we have some apparent siblings names. Do any of these names look familiar to anyone. Nadine Snider