This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YeB.2ACI/237.1.1 Message Board Post: Sorry, My ancestor was born in SC and moved to Alabama in the 1840s as a boy with his grandmother and an older sister who married a Bracknell. Sounds like your Reeds were in Alabama before mine.