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, Milton D., Major (1836-1915) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Pages 448-449 Major Milton D. Reed, born 1836, near Philippi, son of Peter and Ruth (Lewellyn) Reed, was married May 30, 1861, to Margaret J., daughter of John and Elsie Stuart. Children, Stuart P., Ocea Lewellyn, Rosa Belle. He is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, a Republican, and a farmer and stockraiser, living on Elk Creek. Mr. Reed was a major in the Virginia militia, and for twenty years was secretary of the Board of Education. His farm of 245 acres is in a fine state of improvement, and is underlaid with coal. His daughter Ocea, in 1895, was married to Edward Minter Jackson, of Buckhannon, a well known farmer and stockman of Upshur County; and his daughter Belle, in 1898, married Charles C. Wentz, of Parkersburg. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Register, Upshur County, WV (year 1915, page 7) FULL-NAME: Milton D. Reed DEATH-DATE: June 27, 1915 at age 79-years DEATH-PLACE: Upshur County MARITAL-STATUS: Widower OCCUPATION: Farmer CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Cardiac Hypertrophy ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------