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I'm looking for descendants of Richard Reed/Reid and Keziah Collins Reed/Reid who were married on Nov. 24, 1827 in Clay County, KY and who went first to Morgan Co., Indiana (land purchase there in 1836) and then lived in Madison County, IL where they apparently died between 1850 and 1860. Known children were Thomas, Anderson, Mary Jane and Rebecca. There were probably others. I am trying to identify the mother of Keziah Collins-Reed/Reid. Her father was Bradley Collins (b. 1787 NC--d.after 1850 in MO, probably Chariton Co.) She was his oldest child and daughter born in North Carolina in 1807 or 1809 (probably the latter). She had at least one full brother named Andrew and possibly one other full brother and sister. Her mother died about 1815 and her father married 2nd Jane Ray in Feb. 1817 in Orange Co. NC. Bradley Collins bounced back and forth between Kentucky and North Carolina for nearly two decades, and left Kentucky for Missouri in 1834, after his 5th marriage. Keziah was given the task (along with her husband Richard Reed/Reid) of moving her recently freed half-uncles: Hiram and Abraham Collins to Indiana. Bradley Collins, father of Keziah is NOT the Bradley Collins who was son of Meredith Collins. There were three Bradley Collins of varying ages--and race--in Kentucky. Bradley Collins, father of Keziah, deliberately named his oldest son Andrew, for his own father: Andrew Collins of Orange Co., North Carolina. Andrew Collins, the father married Isabella Hastings (sometimes spelled Hastins) in records. It should be noted that the two half brothers of Bradley Collins named sons Hastins/Hastons, and it is likely their mother was actually a slave half-sister of Isabella. Hiram Collins, Keziah Collins and Jesse Collins (a probable full uncle of Keziah) all married sisters and brothers of the Reed/Reid family: children of Thomas Reed/Reid. From the census records, Richard was born in North Carolina, but a sister was born in Tennessee, suggesting this Reed/Reid family was in both North Carolina and Tennessee before Kentucky and Indiana.
On the 1830 census, Hiram and Abraham Collins were listed as slave heads of households and were adjacent to free white Bradley Collins. When Hiram and Abraham moved north, on later censes and in other records Hiram was called "white" but Abraham was always described as "mulatto," and there was a lawsuit that involved a question of his race in 1856 in Indiana. Hiram Collins was in Madison Co., IL on the 1850 census, but returned to Morgan Co., Indiana soon after. Records in that county show he died in early June, 1857, there. Hiram purchased land first in Indiana in 1832 and made three additional purchases, all in Morgan Co. Abraham first bought land in Indiana in 1834 and bought land in Morgan Co. in 1850. Richard Reid bought land in Morgan Co. in 1836 but was buying land in Madison Co., IL in the 1840's.
Any documented information on this family, and any contacts from descendants of Richard and Keziah are greatly appreciated. I've been working on Keziah's Collins family for over 40 years now and still haven't completed its history and would like to do so and not leave my nieces and nephews this mystery, as it was left to me. With all our modern communications and information exchanging, surely we all should be able to finish histories/trees for at least this side of the Atlantic in under a life-time.
Cecilia L. Fabos-Becker (a descendant of Keziah's brother Andrew Collins, son of Bradley Collins)
direct email: celia.lfsbecker@sbcglobal.net (all letters, no numbers)
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