William Reed
and his wife Avis Chepman
and Some of Their Descendants
Seventh Generation

ANDREW ROBESON7 REED (Lemuel6, Anna5, Thomas4, William3, James2, William1 ) was born at Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, about 1832-3[1] a son of Lemuel Reed and his wife Fally Woodmansee, and died at Dartmouth on 13 April 1898.[2] He married first at Fall River, Bristol County, on 28 May 1854 BARBARA E. WORDELL.[3] She was born at Dartmouth on 13 March 1834, a daughter of Stephen and Rebecca Wordell. She died at Dartmouth on 24 March 1860.[4] Andrew married second at Dartmouth on 10 September 1860 HARRIET F. MORSE.[5] She was born at Fairhaven, Bristol County, about April 1840, a daughter of Albert and Adeline Morse. She died at Dartmouth on 23 August 1874.[6] Andrew married third at Dartmouth on 30 July 1876 SYLVIA B. (HEAD) JAY.[7] She was born at Dartmouth on 3 September 1847,[8] and died at New Bedford on 6 January 1919, a daughter of Frederick and Abby Head.[9] Sylvia had previously married at New Bedford, Bristol County, on 8 May 1868 JAMES A. JAY.[10] He was born at Rochester, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, on 29 April 1849, a son of Charles M. and Mary A. Jay.[11]

The thirteenth and last child of Lemuel and Fally Reed, Andrew Reed was born after his two oldest siblings had already married. He grew up on the family farm in northwestern Dartmouth. Andrew was sixteen years old when his father died. As the 1850 Census indicated, Andrew remained on the farm with his mother. Andrew and his brother George were farming. Two older sisters who had married sailors were also in the household.[12]

Andrew Reed married Barbara Wordell in 1854. They had a daughter later that year. In 1856 they had a son who lived thirteen months and died of dropsey on the brain.[13] In 1860, Barbara gave birth to another on March 16; eight days later she died; eight days after her death, the son died. The 1860 Census (1 June) reported Andrew Reed, 26, farming in North Dartmouth, his daughter Josephine, 5, attending school, and Ann Gifford, 20, probably helping around the house.[13]

In September of 1860 Andrew Reed married Harriet Morse. The 1870 Census reported Andrew and Harriet at North Dartmouth with their two children, and his child by his first wife:[14]

Line Name Age Sex Race Occupation R.E. P.E. Birth
28. Reed, Andrew R. 37 M W common laborer $1200 $500 MA
29. Reed, Harriet F. 29 F W keeping house MA
30. Reed, Josephine L. 15 F W at school MA
31. Reed, Harriet L. 7 F W at school MA
32. Reed, Lemuel B. 1 M W at home MA

Harriet (Morse) Reed died at the age of thirty-four from inflamation of the bowels.[15] Andrew Reed, widowed for the second time, had in his care his nineteen year old daughter by his first wife, and his and Harriet's eleven year old daughter and five year old son. Two years later he married his third wife. The following month, Josephine, his daughter by his first wife, married.

The 1880 Census reported Andrew Reed, 47, doing mason work and farming, living at Dartmouth, with his wife, Sylvia, 33, and his son by his second wife, Lemuel, 12.[16] Daughter Josephine (Reed) Rogers lived at New Bedford with her husband, Wilson Rogers, a sailor.[17] Daughter Harriet does not appear in this census, and married two years later.

Andrew Reed died in 1898. The 1900 Census reported Sylvia Reed, 52, farmer, at Dartmouth, with her step son, Lemuel Reed, 28, farm laborer.[18] Lemuel married in 1904.

The 1910 Census reported Sylvia Reed working as a housekeeper for John Nickerson, of Dartmouth.[19] Lemuel and his wife lived in Dartmouth, where he farmed.[20] Josephine (Reed) Rogers, now widowed, lived with her daughter and son-in-law, Josephine and William Allen, at New Bedford. William worked in an eyelet factory.[21] Sylvia (Head) (Jay) Reed died in 1919 from a cerebral hemorrhage.[22]

Andrew Reed and his first wife Barbara Wordell had the following children:

  1. JOSEPHINE LOVINA8 REED b. at Westport, Bristol County, on 1 December 1854, d. at New Bedford, Bristol County, on 1928; m. at New Bedford on 17 August 1876 WILSON A. ROGERS, b. at Dartmouth about 1849-50.[23] Child of Josephine and Wilson:
    1. Josephine W. Rogers b. at New Bedford on 20 September 1880; m. there on 21 February 1901 William H. Allen b. at Freetown, Bristol County, about 1879.[24]
  2. HERBERT FRANKLIN8 REED b. at Dartmouth on 8 October 1856; d. there on 11 November 1857.[25]
  3. WILLIE HERBERT8 REED b. at Dartmouth on 16 March 1860; d. there on 1 April 1860.[26]

Andrew Reed and his second wife Harriet Morse had the following children:

  1. HARRIET LOUISE8 REED b. at Dartmouth on 30 September 1863; m. there on 4 October 1882 WILLIAM J. KIMBALL, b. at New Bedford on 16 January 1865, child of Joseph and Emily Kimball.[27]
  2. LEMUEL B.8 REED b. at Dartmouth on 22 January 1869; d. there on 1941; m. there on 10 January 1904 MARY A. BREHAUT, b. at Dartmouth on 16 October 1877, child of Thomas Brehaut and Mary Grot.[28]

NOTES

1Massachusetts Archives, "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 27 September 2017), vol. 135, p. 80, e. 15, Dartmouth Marriages, 1860, Reed-Morse.
2"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 481, p. 151, e. 18, Dartmouth Deaths, 1898, Andrew R. Reed.
3"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 78, p. 78, e. 45, Fall River Marriages, 1854, Reed-Wordell.
4"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 138, p. 71, e. 6, Dartmouth Deaths, 1860, Barbara E. Reed.
5"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 135, p. 80, e. 15, Dartmouth Marriages, 1860, Reed-Morse.
6"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 265, p. 77, e. 38, Dartmouth Deaths, 1874, Harriet T. Reed.
7"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 280, p. 79, e. 22, Dartmouth Marriages, 1876, Reed-Jay.
8"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 28, p. 50, e. 54, Dartmouth Births, 1847-8, Sylvia Head.
9Massachusetts Archives, "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1916-1920," digital images, American Ancestors (american ancestors.org : accessed 10 April 2020), Deaths 1919; v. 74, certificate 511; New Bedford; Sylvia Reed.
10"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 208, p. 113, e. 85, New Bedford Marriages, 1863, Jay-Head.
11"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 36, p. 151, Rochester Births, 1848-9, (male) Jay.
12Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 309, p. 451B/452A, household 797, Fally Reed family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 15 January 2016); NARA Microfilm Publication M432; Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
13"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 111, p. 97, e. 20, Dartmouth Deaths, 1857, Herbert Franklin Reed.
14Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 492, p. 850, household 2255, Andrew Reed family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 16 January 2016); NARA microfilm publication M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
15Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Dartmouth, Bristol County, Mas sachusetts, roll 603, p. 126A, household 254, Andrew Reed family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 16 December 2016); NARA microfilm publication M593, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
16"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 265, p. 77, e. 38, Dartmouth Deaths, 1874, Harriet T. Reed.
17Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 80, roll 523, p. 403C, household 131, Andrew R. Reed family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 16 January 2016); NARA microfilm publication T9; Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
181880 Census, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, ED 117, roll 525, p. 276B, household 160, Wilson Rogers family.
19Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 99, p. 18, household 460, Sylvia Reed family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 10 April 2020); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
20Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 104, roll 574, p. 1B, household 19, John Nickerson household; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 10 April 2020); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
211910 Census, Dartmouth, Bristol County., Massachusetts, ED 104, roll 574, p. 16B, household 316, Lemuel B. Reed family.
221910 Census, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, ED 201, roll 579, p. 15B, household 403, William Allen family.
23"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1916-1920," Deaths 1919; v. 74, certificate 511; New Bedford; Sylvia Reed.
24"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 81, p. 78, e. 28, Dartmouth Births, 1854, Josephine Lovina Reed; vol. 280, p. 123, e. 159, New Bedford Marriages, 1876, Rogers-Reed. Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Registry of Vital Records and Statistics "Massachusetts Vital Records Index to Deaths [1916–1970]," digital images of index, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 11 April 2020), Josephine Rogers, 1928.
25"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," v. 313, p. 142, e. 395; Births New Bedford 1880; Josephine Rogers; v. 512, p. 237, e. 113; Marriages New Bedford 1901; Allen-Rogers. Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 135, roll 686, p. 3A, household 60, William Allen family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 11 April 2020); NARA microfilm record group T625, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
26"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 111, p. 97, e. 20, Dartmouth Deaths, 1857, Herbert Franklin Reed.
27"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 138, p. 71, e. 7, Dartmouth Deaths, 1860, Willie Herbert Reed.
28"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," v. 159, p. 81, e. 25; Births Dartmouth 1863; Hattie Reed; v. 334, p.94, e. 37; Marriages Dartmouth 1882; Kimball-Reed; v. 177, p.107, e. 104; Births New Bedford, 1865; William Kimball.
29"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 214, p. 89, e. 2, Dartmouth Births, 1869, Lemuel Reed; vol. 546, p. 153, e. 1, Dartmouth Marriages, 1904, Reed-Brehaut; vol. 286, p. 90, e. 53, Dartmouth Births, 1877, Mary Alice Brehaut. "Massachusetts Vital Records Index to Deaths [1916–1970]," Lemuel Reed, 1941.

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