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Helen,
This is a continuation of the writings of Grace Kelso Garner from her book " Earliest Settlers of Western Fredrick - Eastern Hampshire Counties, Virginia, their decendants" in the section about Rebecca Caudy, daughter
of James Caudy and Elizabeth Lyons, who married Tilberry Reid:
" On January 10, 1831, Rebecca Caudy married Tilberry Reid..........they departed to Pike County, Ohio and started a store in Piketon and remained there for some time.....Tilberry Reid was also Sherrif of that early day Ohio town. He owned land in Pike County, Ohio as well as the store. After or during the War with Mexico the following recommendation was made" To the President of the United States; We the undersigned Democratic members of the Ohio Ligislature respectfully request the appointment of Col. Tilbury Reid as Colonel in the United States
Army. Col. Reid in all respects is well qualified for the station to which we recommend him. He is a man of high standing and his appointment would do honor to his country and advance the public service. We trust the President will find it consistent with his duty to make this appointment we request". This letter bore thirty three signatures. About 1848, Tilberry and Rebecca Caudy Reid moved from Piketown to Greenville, Ohio and by 1849 in which year a February deed states that Tilberry Reed is of the State of Indiana. He settled there in Center Valley, then Morgan County, Indiana but now in Hendricks County and there he soon acquired land, and again operated a store and in 1850 he advocated a post office. He became a Lieutenant in the local Militia and by 1862 he was a Captain in the 96th Indiana Regiment. He was a large man, six feet tall and weighing 212 pounds, he was an authoritive officer. Five children were born to Tilberry and Rebecca Caudy Reid. At the age of about 50 years, his youngest child being twenty years of age, Tilberry Reid enlisted in the 99th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers in the year 1862. He was a Captain, and it is disclosed in the Adjutant Generals office dated November 4, 1863 which denied a pension to Rebecca Caudy Reid, that Captain Reid has resigned December 29, 1862. It is shown by official records and the History of the 99th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers that Tilberry Reid was desperately ill at the time of his resignation. "Company E came from Hendricks County. It was under command of Captain Tilberry Reid. He was fifty six years old, the oldest officer in the Regiment. The service was too hard for him. He died this day and made many sad". Dated Jan 1, 1863. "
John Francis C. Reid was born in Hampshire County, Virginia March 9, 1834, the oldest child of Tilberry Reid and Rebecca Caudy Reid. Moved with his family to Pike County, Ohio and in 1849 to Indiana. He married in Hendricks County, Indiana to Adeline Cravens and after the birth her a son, John Craven Reid, the young father John Francis C. Reid died at the age of 35. He lies buried in the Baptist Church Cemetery where his stone bears a Masonic Emblem.
Minerva J. Reid, born March 12, 1836 in Pike County, Ohio, daughter of Tilberry Reid and Rebecca Caudy Reid, married Jesse Cravens, son of William M. and Jane Barker Cravens and they became parents of seven children.
They moved to Kansas and lived at Hilldale near Kansas City before 1912 and there were then eight children. One known daughter Bertha Cravens married a Mr. Anderson.
Richard Reid, son of Tilberry and Rebecca Caudy Reid, was born at Piketon, Ohio on April 14, 1839. He married to Eliza J. Hunt on December 28, 1865 (she was born January 5, 1845, daughter of Alfred and Jane Brown Hunt).
He was a strong industrious and ambitious man and by 1885 he had acquired two good farms, upon which stood a good large nine room house and a large barn which had been built by his father Tilberry Reid. Misfortune overtook him in that year 1885 for he was severely injured by a bull and from this he never completely recovered though he lived until 1891, he never walked again. Six children had been born to them and at the time of their father's injury in the Spring of 1885 the oldest son was 18 and the youngest, a daughter, was 14 months of age. Eliza Hunt Reid, aged 40 at this time lived through some very difficult years for quite a time thereafter. Richard E. Reid died Oct 10, 1891 and from the Hendricks County Republican issue of Oct 15, 1891 which reads " Well known and popular, he had the confidence of the whole people. An upright and honest man." Eliza Hunt Reid, his wife, died in San Francisco, California on June 3, 1915. Tilberry Benton Reid, son of Richard and Eliza Hunt Reid was born Aug 3, 1867. A genealogy written by his brother, now deceased, states that Benton (nicknamed Bent) was an outstanding amateur rifle shot and like both of his grandfathers, a staunch Democrat. At his death the Republican newspaper in a front page article said "Scrupulously honest in all his dealings, endowed with a judgment that readily discriminated the right from the wrong. During his funeral service every business establishment was closed." (Issue of Hendricks County Republican newspaper, March 3, 1904). "Benton" Reid married to Nannie Mitchell on August 23, 1893, the daughter of William C. and Elizabeth Willis Mitchell. Tilberry Benton Reid died Feb 24, 1904 and his wife Nannie Mitchell Reid died May 12, 1947.........
Lee C. Reid, son of Richard E. and Eliza Hunt Reid was born September 21, 1869 and at the turn of the century served his country in the Spanish American War and later in World War I. He married to Rose Rustameier
on Dec 23, 1900, the daughter of Francis and Sarah Blunt Restameier. She died in San Francisco, California.....
Mabel Reid, daughter of Richard E. and Eliza Hunt Reid was born July 18, 1875. Mabel Reid was a teacher of many years and a graduate of the University of California with many post graduates courses from Universities in both America and Europe. She spent much time traveling and pursuing her family genealogy and intended to publish her work but she died at the age of about 51 years in San Francisco, California on Nov 11, 1926. Her brother used her notes and this research is in his book "Jeremiah Reid of Hampshire County, Virginia and Many of His Descendants".
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