I had a gr gr grandfather Tom Reid whose daughter was Willie Alice Reid, b. 5/1864 in Ga., m. Thomas Ancel Ferguson in 1878 at age of 14, d. 4/16/1939 in Columbia, SC (Richland Co.) (age 74). She told my mother (her granddaughter) She, her brother, and parents took a wagon train out west. They were attached by Indians. Her parents were killed. Some of the train turned back and, also, brought her and her brother back to Greenville, SC. One family took her and another family took her brother, whom she never heard from again. Not sure of his age nor name. She is on the 1870 census with a Satterfield family (no male). When she was 14 she married Thomas Ferguson although she was told by the Satterfield lady she would be disowned. Do not know if the Satterfield lady was a relative. I wonder if this could be some of her relatives! I will check on the the 1840 census for Reed or Reid. Only thing is if there was a living husband, Mary's name won't be listed. Does anyone have knowledge of how to locate information on the wagon trains which went west? Since they had a leader most of the tine I would think it would be on record somewhere JoyMac ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 11:44 PM Subject: [SCLAUREN] Reed/Reid | Can anyone tell me if there is a household in the 1840 census with a Mary Reid, age 60? She is in Bibb County Alabama by 1850 apparently with her grandchildren, Elizabeth, 22, Mary, 17 and John A., 15. John A. is my gg-grandfather. I am trying to determine if the parents of these children died sometime in the 1840s forcing them to move with their grandparents/grandmother to Alabama. Elizabeth was married to John Bracknell, a blacksmith from SC as early as 1847, so the grandmother and children may have moved with them to Alabama. The spelling of the name was changed to REED or possibly was misspelled as REID on the census. I think that John A. Reed's father's name could have been William since he named his first-born son that name. I'd appreciate any help from census/estate/land sale records.