Parker REED

                   GEORGE LIVINGSTON, 100 darby ct., WIERTON, WVA 26062, 11/90;
DAR APPLICATION #509382, 1965, gt grddau, Jo Ann Reed Cole
HISTORY OF WASHINGTON CO., PA, Boyd Crumine, 1882, pg 882; "Parker Reed was
born in Hopewell Twsp, Washington Co., PA, March 11, 1811, and died there March
27, 1871.  He was the son of James Reed, a native of Scotland, a carpenter by
trade, who built the first courthouse erected in Washington, PA.  Parker Reed
was tutored at home and in the country schools, and reared upon the farm which
he subsequently inherited.  He was an elder in the Upper Buffalo Presbyterian
Church for 33 years, and superintendnet of the Sunday-schools for 17 years, and
was efficient and zealou.  His record as a man and citizen in unassailable.  He
was married June 13, 1838 to Jane Ann Brice, by whom he had 6 children - JOHN
B, a Presbyterian minister of Sisterville, WV, married to Isabella Shields;
LINA CATHARINE, who died when 8 years of age; JAMES P., a grocer of Larned KS,
married to Georgia Walker; REBECCA J, the wife of Samuel P. Wilson a farmer of
Hopewell twsp, Washington Co., PA; HENRY H, a flour and grain merchant of
Larned KS, married to Anna Dumont; L.C., a concrete maker of Garden City, KS,
married to nancy J. Matthews.