John Ewing Reed and Maggie Thompson

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Husband John Ewing Reed ^{1 2}

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           Born: 8 Feb 1841 - Ewing's Mills, Allegheny Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: Aft 1904
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         Father: Thomas Clifford Reed (1813-1870/1878) 1 2
         Mother: Miriam S. Ewing (1822-1855) 1 2

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       Marriage: 23 Mar 1889 1 3

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   Other Spouse: Maggie A. Hamil (1843-1888/1888) 1 4 - 15 Sep 1867 1 4

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Wife Maggie Thompson ^{1 3}

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           Born: 10 Dec 1847 3
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   Other Spouse: [Unk] Brewer (      -      ) 3

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - John Ewing Reed

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He was a soldier in the Civil War, enlisting in April, 1861, in Co. E, 11th Pa. Infantry. To him belongs the distinction of being the first soldier from Pennsylvania who fell in defence of his country, being wounded in July, 1861, in the battle of Falling Water, near Williamsport, Tennessee. He lay in the hospital at Hagerstown with both eyes swollen shut, and he heard one man remark as he passed by: "I would not give much for that fellow." He rallied, however, and came home with the loss of one eye. On application for re-enlistment, he was rejected on this account, but hired with the company as cook.

He was a farmer and later resided near Spokane, Washington.

He was born at Ewing's Mill and learned harness making with John Caldwell at the tannery near Dayton, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. In the war of the rebellion, first call for seventy-five thousand men, he enlisted as a soldier in Co. K, Eleventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was the first Pennsylvania soldier to receive a wound. At the battle of Falling Water, Maryland, July 2, 1861, a ball struck his gun when he was in the act of aiming to shoot. His gun barrel assumed the form of the letter "S" and a splinter from the stock hit him in the eye. As a result, he was blind in one eye. He was discharged and sent home in November, 1861. In a speech to the neighbors and his chums who gathered at his father's house when he retured, to see the "soldier boy in blue," he said "he was sorry he did not get one whack at the Rebs."
After marriage they lived a while at Reed's Station, near Indiana, Pennsylvania, but moved to Kansas. That year the grasshoppers or chintz bug, destroyed the harvest and nearly everything. Great fields of corn, so tall that in it great droves of cattle might feed and not be seen, were eaten by these clouds of insects in four days until scarcely a stock stump remained. He then went to California, sending back soon for his wife. She and an adopted daughter, named Maggie Ewing, daughter of Thomas and Louisa Gourley Ewing, started but the little girl got sick on the way and died, and was buried at Denver, Colorado. She was a very bright, promising and affectionate child, a beautiful singer and the idol of the home.

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General Notes: Wife - Maggie Thompson

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from Punxsutawney, Jefferson Co, PA

1 M. T. Steele & Edith Work, The Work Family (Marion Center, PA: Privately published, 1894), Pg 24.

2 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 81.

3 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 83.

4 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 82.