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|------John REED (1812, Ireland - 1896, Iowa)
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John Charles REED (1851, Ireland - 1938, Iowa)
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|------Mary MEAGHER (1816, Ireland - 1900, Iowa)
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John and Margaret's daughter Bernadine wrote the following in a brief history
of their family:
Dad married my mother, Margaret Bulger on June 3, 1879. So I was
told, there was no courtship. Dad knew there were many girls in the
Bulger family and went one day to ask for one of them. (Margaret
wanted to become a nun.) She ran to the back of the house crying as
her Mother told her she had to go with him. There was no choice and
she went. I know she had a hard life. There were no conveniences.
At first, water had to be carried to the house in cans strapped to a
mule from a spring east of the barn.
When the twins were four years old, they contacted scarlet fever and
Carrie died. This was March 25,1892. There wasn't much doctoring in
those days and Genevieve took something out of the scarlet fever and
on July 2, 1896, she died. The deaths were particularly hard on my
Mother because she loved her children dearly.
John's granddaughter Margaret Guinan Orona told the following story:
Fr. Dugan, who was the parish priest in Grand Mound at the time, went to Castlecomber, Ireland and thought he found John's name in the parish books there. He returned with this news in 1938 --- that John C. Reed was a year older than he thought. At the time John had the shingles. When he heard the news that he could have been a year older, he went to bed and died. (The combination of the shingles and the shock was too much for him. )
John lived at the same farm five miles northeast of De Witt from 1876 until his death.
In the 1900 census for Washington Township, page 4B, is John Reed, born Feb 1858 in Ireland, age 46 [sic], married 21 years, immigrated 1861, farms. His wife Margaret was born March of 1860 in Illinois, had 10 kids, 8 of them living. The children and birth dates are: William, July 1880; Minnie, May 1882; Lillie, Dec. 1883; John, Jan. 1886; Clara, Feb. 1888; Cristina, Feb. 1892.; Florence, Oct 1895; and Francis (a daughter), Jan 1900. Several members of this John Reed family (apparently) are buried at Villa Nova, including:
Geraldine Fitzgerald's records name the following children in this family: William, Minnie, ``Lil'', Clara, John, Carrie, Flo.
Here are the passages from his obituary listing his survivors:
Surviving are 2 sons, William and John; five daughters Mrs. Charles
Hunter of DeWitt, Sister Mary Gonzaga of Davenport, Mrs. Albert Marcil
of Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Thomas Guinan of DeWitt and Miss Carolyn Reed of
Omaha, Neb.
Attending the services from away were Tom, Will, Elizabeth and Lillian
Reed of Lexington, Neb., Sister Mary Gonzaga and companion Mercy Order
of Davenport; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Marcil and children, Jeanne and Al
Jr., Harry Pfieffer and Miss Carolyn Reed of Omaha, Neb.; Mrs and Mrs.
Francis Clementz of Sterling, Ill., Mary Hunter of Iowa City, John
Logan, Davenport; Peggy Logan, Clinton; Mr. and Mrs. Tom Maher and
Vincent Lawler all of Clinton.
Sources for this individual: @S1443@ @S637@ @S565@ @S669@
