U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Reed, Ida L. (1865-1951) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Page 450 Ida L. Reed, daughter of James and Nancy J. (Lelliardt) Reed, was born 1865 on Rock Camp Run, Barbour County. Her ancestors were Scotch, English and German, but were early settlers in Virginia and were soldiers in the Revolutionary War. Her brothers and sisters were Lucy B., Hampton H, John R., Eugene P., James L., Ira Milton and Isadora. She is a member of the M. E. Church, and resides on a farm near Arden, her father having died in 1892. Her facilities for obtaining an education were limited; but she taught five years in the public schools. She early began a literary life and has contributed largely to the religious literature of her time, chiefly hymns, cantatas and special exercises for Christmas, Easter, Harvest Home and Sunday School exercises for children. More than five hundred of her hymns and thirty cantatas have been published and widely circulated by printing houses in New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis and elsewhere. In addition to these, she has written many poems, which have been published in the newspapers. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Barbour County, WV #8248 FULL-NAME: Ida L. Reed BIRTH-DATE: 1865 BIRTH-PLACE: W.Va. DEATH-DATE: July 8, 1951 DEATH-PLACE: Rural Pleasant, Barbour County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: never married OCCUPATION: writing hymes & poetry FATHER: Harrison Reed MOTHER: Nancy Willard CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Pneumonia - Bronchial BURIAL: Near Ebenezer Church ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------