Robert Reed and Sarah "Sally" Clifford
Husband Robert Reed 1 2
Born: 1772 3 Christened: Died: 17 Oct 1848 or 1849 4 Buried: - Fairfield Cemetery, Fairfield, Westmoreland Co, PA
Father: Robert Reed (Abt 1730- ) 2 5 Mother: Mary Pomeroy ( - ) 5
Marriage: 1 Jun 1793 6
Wife Sarah "Sally" Clifford 1 2
Born: 1776 3 Christened: Died: 7 Nov 1853 4 Buried: - Fairfield Cemetery, Fairfield, Westmoreland Co, PA
Father: Charles Clifford ( -1815) 1 7 Mother: [Unk] Gordon ( - ) 1 7
Children
1 F Polly Reed 4
Born: 14 Aug 1794 4 Christened: Died: 6 Oct 1879 8 Buried: - Ebenezer Cemetery, Houston Twp, Adams Co, ILSpouse: Hugh Brady (1796-1874) 4 Marr: 9 Dec 1817 4
2 M Charles Reed 9
Born: 29 Sep 1796 - near Ligonier, Westmoreland Co, PA 9 Christened: Died: 2 Dec 1860 - Reed's Station, PA 9 Buried: - Oakland Cemetery, Indiana, Indiana Co, PASpouse: Kezia Boyle (1804-1884) 9 Marr: 8 Apr 1824 9
3 M George Reed 10
Born: 1798 10 Christened: Died: Buried: - Mason City, Mason Co, ILSpouse: Jane Mewherter ( - ) 10Spouse: Mary Jane Taylor ( - ) 10
4 M James Reed 11
Born: 15 Mar 1801 12 Christened: Died: 8 Jan 1870 - Marion Center, Indiana Co, PA 12 Buried: - Mahoning U. P. Cemetery, Mahoning, Indiana Co, PASpouse: Mary "Polly" Piper (1804-1862) 13 Marr: 1 Jan 1828 - near Indiana, Indiana Co, PA 13
5 M Robert Reed 14
Born: 30 Oct 1804 - near Ligonier, Westmoreland Co, PA 14 Christened: Died: 20 Jan 1865 15 Buried: - Beaver Run U. P. Cemetery, Westmoreland Co, PASpouse: Leah Peoples ( - ) 16 Marr: 11 Jul 1833 16Spouse: Nancy Mount (1805-1880) 17 18 Marr: 29 Sep 1847 18
6 F Sarah "Sally" Reed 15 19
Born: 7 Nov 1806 15 Christened: Died: 27 May 1873 15 Buried: - Glade Run Cemetery, Wayne Twp, Armstrong Co, PASpouse: William Lytle (1806-1883) 15 19 Marr: 1835 15
7 F Margaret Reed 20
Born: 4 Nov 1807 - near Ligonier, Westmoreland Co, PA 20 Christened: Died: 22 Feb 1881 - Indiana, Indiana Co, PA 21 Buried: - Oakland Cemetery, Indiana, Indiana Co, PASpouse: Gawan Adams (1806-1875) 20 Marr: 1 Feb 1831 20
8 M Joseph Reed 22
Born: Christened: Died: Buried: - Columbus, OHSpouse: Susan Porch ( - ) 22 Marr: Abt 1836Spouse: Julia Liliston ( - ) 22
9 M John Reed 23
Born: Christened: Died: 1878 23 Buried:
10 M Thomas Clifford Reed 23 24
Born: 16 Aug 1813 - near Ligonier, Westmoreland Co, PA 23 Christened: Died: 17 Oct 1870 or 1878 - Ligonier, Westmoreland Co, PA 24 25 Buried: - Fairfield, Westmoreland Co, PASpouse: Miriam S. Ewing (1822-1855) 23 24 Marr: 28 Apr 1840 23 24Spouse: Jane Clifford McElroy (1817-1905) 25 Marr: 12 Apr 1856 25
11 F Lavina Reed 25 26
AKA: Lovina Reed 19 Born: 26 Jan 1816 - near Ligonier, Westmoreland Co, PA 25 Christened: Died: 24 Feb 1889 - near Chambersville, Indiana Co, PA 27 Buried: - Plum Creek U. P. ChurchSpouse: John Lytle (1808-1890) 19 26 28 Marr: 27 Jun 1837 28
12 M Marshall "Uncle Marshall" Reed 29 30 31 32
Born: 15 May 1819 - near Ligonier, Westmoreland Co, PA 32 Christened: Died: 20 Mar 1892 32 Buried: - Fairfield, Westmoreland Co, PASpouse: Sarah McKelvey (1819-1875) 29 30 31
General Notes: Husband - Robert Reed
He lived on the old family homestead where his father had planted an orchard. One of the trees was called the "Chillian Green." In 1821 this family built the old stone house still on the premises in the early twentieth century.
"He and his wife lived to be quite old, and were industrious and strictly religious. When old and not able to work on the farm, he shaved shingles which were then in great demand. Each morning after breakfast he would go to work, shaving shingles near the house. One morning he went to his work as usual. Grandmother missed him that particular morning and went to the door step to see where he was. To her surprise and consternation she saw him at work shaving shingles. I think I can see her raise her hand and exclaim "Daddy!" That was all. He dropped his drawing-knife and went into the house to his Book. It was Sabbath morning."
General Notes: Wife - Sarah "Sally" Clifford
The Pipers were old settlers in Ligonier Valley. Robert Piper, Sr., had married a daughter of Robert Reed, Sr., and was engaged as a tenant on the farm. In 1810 Robert Piper having lived there more than 21 years could of course get a lawful deed by presenting his claim. Although the Reeds had held undisputed possesion for some fifty years, they had never secured a deed and didn't seem to see any need of it. But it seems that the Pipers and Reeds took a notion that they did need a deed about the same time. In fact both got ready about the same time and the trip to Harrisburg was to be commenced next morning. In some mysterious way, Sally Reed, Robert's wife, discovered their tenant's plan the evening before. She hurried home and started her husband for Harrisburg and when Piper's horse was brought out saddled and bridled, Sally, then the mother of eight children, mounted him and rode five miles to Coal Hill, tied him in the brush and walked home, trusting in God and Robert Reed to do the rest. As no other horse was thought fit for the journey, and this one could not be tracked until morning, the start was delayed. As a consequence Reed arrived at Harrisburg in the evening and had his business attended to the next morning just as Piper dismounted his jaded horse. Well up to this time, the Reeds were Presbyterians and Piper was an Elder in the church. Sally was brought before the session for "spiriting" away Piper's horse. She was asked to acknowledge "that she was sorry for the act." She answered that "instead of being sorry she was thankful that God had made her the instrument in saving her property." But the minister said, "Mrs. Reed, unless you acknowledge that you are sorry for taking the horse and hiding him five miles from home in the night, you cannot commune nor have your children baptized as heretofore." Her answer was: "I am not sorry, nor I don't wish to belong to a church in which one of the Elders is as big a rascal as Bob Piper." Thereafter the Reeds were mostly United Presbyterians.
1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 245.
2 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 6.
3 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 20.
4 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 21.
5 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 248.
6 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 8.
7 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 15.
8 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 24.
9 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 50.
10 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 58.
11 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 11, 59.
12 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 59.
13 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 10, 59.
14 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 63.
15 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 72.
16 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 64.
17 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 295.
18 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 71.
19 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 1056.
20 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 75.
21 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 76.
22 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 80.
23 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 81.
24 M. T. Steele & Edith Work, The Work Family (Marion Center, PA: Privately published, 1894), Pg 24.
25 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 86.
26 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 449.
27 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 88.
28 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 87.
29 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 176.
30 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 316.
31 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1061.
32
J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 92.
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