This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: REED/REID Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YeB.2ACI/237 Message Board Post: I am searching for the parents of John A. Reid/ Reed. I have always used the REED spelling, but recently found that his young son's tombstone has the name spelled "REID." He was born 8-1-1834 in Laurens Co. and died 6-16-1904 in Lawrence County, Alabama. He married Nancy Ann Brown in 1856 in Alabama. Family oral history is that he came to Alabama at age nine "kicking and screaming." He fought in the Civil War and was captured in 1863 and imprisoned at Camp Morton, Indiana. Anyone with a John Reid or Reed please let me know.