DUTOIT: A Family from Moudon, Switzerland
Mary Katherine REEDY (ID #I36254)
(female)
- BIRTH: 27 JUN 1846, Sullivan Co., Indiana
- DEATH: 04 SEP 1924, Topeka, Shawnee Co., Kansas
Father: Gideon REEDY (b. 03 JUN 1814, d. 02 DEC 1908)
Mother: Eliza (Luiza) Jane ALSMAN (b. 1819)
Family 1
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John W. NICHOLS (b. abt 1839)
- MARRIAGE: 17 APR 1861, Macon Co., Illinois
Family 2
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Jacob Andrew REEDY (b. 1826, d. 07 OCT 1887)
- MARRIAGE: 10 APR 1865, Macon Co., Illinois
- DIVORCE: 26 JUL 1875, Shawnee Co., Kansas
Family 3
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Thomas F. STAPLETON (dates unknown)
Family 4
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John L. STONE (dates unknown)
After her divorce from Jacob Reedy, she apparently married a Stapleton. In the 1880 census, as Katie Stapleton, age 36, she is identified as a married daughter of Gideon and Luisa Ready in Topeka, Kansas. However, she is also listed as divorced in a separate household with her Reedy children.
It seems likely she married one of the sons of John and Melissa Stapleton who died in Macon Co., Illinois about 1855. Another daughter of Gideon Reedy, Emily Ann, born about 1859, married James William, a son of the Stapletons, born in 1851 in Decatur. The Stapletons were married in Springfield, but by 1850, they were in Cedar Co., Iowa. By 1875 (Kansas State Census), James W. Stapleton age 23 (or perhaps 20, the last digit is not clear) and his wife ? Emily A. age 16 were in Mission, Brown Co., Kansas, and living next door was Thomas Stapleton age 32, with no wife, but with 4 children, the oldest age 12, and the last 3, ages 3, 5, and 7, born in Kansas. If Thomas had recently lost his wife (he had married Asenith Beach in Macon Co., Illinois in 1862), he might have been the one who next married Mary Catherine Reedy, who divorced Jacob A. Reedy in 1875 in Shawnee Co., Kansas.
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_Gideon REEDY ______________|
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Oliver Kerr REEDY (ID #I21309)
(male)
- BIRTH: 16 OCT 1851, Curwensville, Clearfield Co., Pennsylvania
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- DEATH: 11 FEB 1945, San Bernardino Co., California
Father: William Mickle REEDY (b. 06 JUL 1821, d. 27 JUL 1857)
Mother: Mary Kerr RANKIN (b. 14 AUG 1824, d. 14 SEP 1902)
Family 1
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Kate B. SHERRILL (b. 1850, d. 1932)
- MARRIAGE: 14 MAY 1872, Lancaster, Nebraska
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- +Oliver Thomas REEDY (b. 10 MAR 1873)
- Mary B. REEDY (b. 1874)
- William Henry REEDY (b. 11 JUL 1876, d. 12 MAR 1912)
- Edward (Edwin?) Hager REEDY (b. 19 AUG 1878)
- James Albert REEDY (b. 8 FEB 1881)
- Charles Augustus REEDY (b. 19 NOV 1882)
- Effie REEDY (b. 17 DEC 1884)
- Ray Rankin REEDY (b. 22 OCT 1888)
In the 1860 census, he is in Cazenovia, Woodford Co., IL, in the household of Joseph B. McCullough, a farmer (however, his birthplace is listed as Illinois instead of Pennsylvania). He is not with his mother in 1870 (Greene Co., IA). In 1880, he is in Orleans, Harlan Co., NE, with his wife and four children. His brother David, with his family, are enumerated on the same page. His family was in Beatrice, Gage Co., NE in 1900 and 1910, then in Pomona, Los Angeles Co., CA for the 1920 and 1930 censuses.
Some of his movements are explained in this sketch from Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska (1882, section on Gage County):
"O. K. REEDY, carpenter and builder, was born in Clearfield County, Penn., in 1851. His parents soon after moved to Dixon, Ill., while there his father died, and, in 1861, went with his mother to Woodford County, remaining there until 1868, when he went to Jefferson County, Iowa [probably Jefferson, Greene Co., IA, where his mother, two brothers, and step-father were enumerated in the 1870 census], remaining a short time and learned the cabinet-making [his step-father James A. Carpenter was a cabinet maker]. In 1870, came to Nebraska and located at Plattsmouth [Cass Co., NE], remaining there about one year; thence to Crete [Saline Co.], and then to Nebraska City [Otoe Co.], remaining there until 1873, when he went into Harlan County, Neb., and opened a furniture store, which business he was in about eighteen months, when he took a homestead on Section 20, Township 3, Range 19 west, living on the farm five years. On getting his deed, he took a pre-emption on Section 29, Township 3, Range 19, and has planted several thousand trees, and various other improvements. Was married in 1872, at Lincoln, Neb., to Miss Catherine Sherritt of that place [Thomas and Mary Sherrill and their children, from Missouri, were in Beatrice, NE from at least 1860]. They have five children, viz: Oliver T., Mary B., William H., Elwin H. and James A. Is a member of the Temple of Honor."
The obituary of his brother David M. Reedy (1935) says that Oliver was then living in Pomona, California. Oliver's obituary notes that he had come to California in 1910. His wife died in Pomona in 1932.
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Oliver Reedy family found in Harlan Co. NE 1880 census ED 31 p. 12 line 26, thus nearby to John and John R. McDougall families. Exact birthdate was found in IGI, as were his children and wife. Birth date is also found in death record.
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IGI
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_Henry Edward REEDY ___|
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_William Mickle REEDY _|
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| |_Margaret MICKLE ______|
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|--Oliver Kerr REEDY
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| _William RANKIN _____+
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| _John McGinley RANKIN _|
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| | |_Abigail MCGINLEY ___
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|_Mary Kerr RANKIN _____|
(1824 - 1902) |
| _William KERR _______
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|_Catherine KERR _______|
(1802 - 1872) |
|_Mary JOHNSTON ______
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Oliver Thomas REEDY (ID #I21311)
(male)
- BIRTH: 10 MAR 1873, Nebraska City, Otoe Co., NE
Father: Oliver Kerr REEDY (b. 16 OCT 1851, d. 11 FEB 1945)
Mother: Kate B. SHERRILL (b. 1850, d. 1932)
Family 1
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Eva Mary MCCUNE (dates unknown)
- Oliver Calmar REEDY (b. 13 NOV 1909, d. 21 MAR 2005)
- Margaret Maribel REEDY (dates unknown)
- William W. REEDY (dates unknown)
This seems to be the Oliver T. Reedy listed in the 1900 Omaha, NE directory as a draftsman for the Union Pacific Railway, residence 2427 Dodge St. 1900 census has not been checked. By 12 sep 1918, when he registered for the draft in World War I, he was a civil engineer in Denver, CO, married to Eva Mary. He was President of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Colorado Section, in 1920.
_Henry Edward REEDY ___
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_William Mickle REEDY _|
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| |_Margaret MICKLE ______
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_Oliver Kerr REEDY __|
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| | _John McGinley RANKIN _+
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| |_Mary Kerr RANKIN _____|
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| |_Catherine KERR _______+
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|--Oliver Thomas REEDY
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|_Kate B. SHERRILL ___|
(1850 - 1932) m 1872|
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William Henry REEDY (ID #I21313)
(male)
- TITLES/'DIT' NAMES/OCCUPATIONS: 1st Sergeant (Spanish-American War), minister
- BIRTH: 11 JUL 1876, Melrose, Arthur Co., Nebraska
- DEATH: 12 MAR 1912, Kern Co., California
Father: Oliver Kerr REEDY (b. 16 OCT 1851, d. 11 FEB 1945)
Mother: Kate B. SHERRILL (b. 1850, d. 1932)
Family 1
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Elsie Viola REMBAUGH (dates unknown)
- MARRIAGE: 26 SEP 1906, Alameda Co., California
After serving in the Spanish-American War in the Philippines, he attended college in Nebraska and California. He was a Presbyterian minister, first at Oakland, and then at Bakersfield, California.
_Henry Edward REEDY ___
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_William Mickle REEDY _|
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| |_Margaret MICKLE ______
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_Oliver Kerr REEDY __|
| (1851 - 1945) m 1872|
| | _John McGinley RANKIN _+
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| |_Mary Kerr RANKIN _____|
| (1824 - 1902) |
| |_Catherine KERR _______+
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|--William Henry REEDY
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|_Kate B. SHERRILL ___|
(1850 - 1932) m 1872|
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William Mickle REEDY (ID #I21308)
(male)
- TITLES/'DIT' NAMES/OCCUPATIONS: Presbyterian Minister
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- BIRTH: 06 JUL 1821, Pennsylvania
- DEATH: 27 JUL 1857, Marengo, McHenry Co., Illinois?
Father: Henry Edward REEDY (b. 1792, d. 30 MAY 1856)
Mother: Margaret MICKLE (b. abt 1796, d. AUG 1861)
Family 1
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Mary Kerr RANKIN (b. 14 AUG 1824, d. 14 SEP 1902)
- +Oliver Kerr REEDY (b. 16 OCT 1851, d. 11 FEB 1945)
- +James Jackson Hamilton REEDY (b. 3 MAY 1853, d. 6 FEB 1941)
- +David M. REEDY (b. 01 JAN 1855, d. 18 FEB 1935)
- +Edward Hagar REEDY (b. 6 NOV 1856, d. 20 NOV 1931?)
- William Henry REEDY (b. 15 FEB 1848, d. 21 AUG 1917)
One entry in LDS files gives parents as Henry Reedy and Mary Mickle, and also gives Michel in place of Michael as the middle name. We have no idea where this information came from. Exactly where he died has not been established with certainty. His son Oliver Kerr Reedy gives Dixon, IL, while the descendants of James J. H. Reedy placed the death at Freeport, IL. A compiled genealogy, apparently informed by the Edward Hagar Reedy family (Alethea Mary Wallack McClain, The Way we were, 1977) gives William's birth date as 06 jul 1826 instead of 06 jul 1821, and makes him the son of Henry Cline Reedy and Margaret, with a sister Elizabeth Reedy born in 1819. Articles published Rockford, Illinois newspapers in 1927, on the occasion of his son Rev. James J. H. Reedy passing through the area, mention that the family lived at Marengo from about 1855 until his father's death in 1857, and that a house built by William M. Reedy was still standing there. For this reason, it seems most likely that he died in McHenry Co.
He has not yet been located in the 1850 census. His birthplace is from 1880 census listings for his children James, Oliver, and David. He is not in the 1850 census of Pike Township, Clearfield Co., PA, so he must have arrived either late in 1850 or early in 1851, just about the time the new minister Rev. James Jackson Hamilton arrived at the Curwensville Presbyterian Church. Rev. Hamilton was a celebrated preacher, and it is just possible that it was he who inspired William Reedy to become a minister. The Reedy family is not found in the 1850 census of Coal Township, Northumberland Co., PA, where Rev. Hamilton served prior to his position at Curwensville. The first wife of Rev. Hamilton was Sarah Coates, who died 20 jun 1852; she had a brother Judge John Coates who came to Illinois in the 1840's and lived in Freeport from about 1853 until his death in 1898 . Did the Coates family have something to do with the Reedy family settling in the Freeport area about 1857?
The information from the Edward Hagar Reedy family in the LDS International Genealogical Index indicates an intermediate stop in McHenry Co., IL in 1856. This information has not been confirmed. It is possible that Edward's brother David was also born in Illinois; the census records are contradictory. One sketch of James J. H. Reedy says the family came first to Freeport about 1854, then to Marengo, McHenry Co., IL early in 1855.
In spite of what his son James said about him, no evidence has been found that William was actually ordained.
The discovery that the Reedy family lived at Marengo, McHenry Co., Illinois from about 1855 until 1857 led to the discovery his brother Jacob Andrew Reedy, subject of a congressional inquiry into the "irregular practices of certain attorneys" in securing military pensions. Various depositions in this matter were reported at length in Executive Document No. 172 of the 48th Congress, First Session, House of Representatives, May 8, 1884. The section concerning the attorney Isaac S.Lee, representing Jacob A. Reedy (pension certificate no. 175281), begins on p. 758. Reedy, his attorney, and A. W. Blakesly, an notary public, recommended to be charged with forgery, conspiracy, and filing false testimony. Jacob Reedy lived in Quincy about 1880 when certain affidavits were made, but then moved to Chicago, where he still resided as of 1882. He had served in Company D, 64th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, enlisting at Decatur, Illinois on 18 feb 1862. He reports that his father died about 28 or 29 years ago (the deposition is dated July, 1882, so the death would have been about 1854, thus about the same time William M. Reedy came to Illinois) in Huntington Co., Pennsylvania, "near what was then known as McCleary's Fort". His mother had died in August 1861 in Stark Co., Ohio, near Winchester. Before his enlistment, he was living at Marengo, Illinois, and had traveled to Decatur in hopes of finding one of his brothers-in-law, whom he was unable to locate, then he enlisted. He had been married about 1847 (35 years ago), but his first wife died in the spring of 1861. He has now married a second time, about 5 years ago. He had been in Marengo about 4 years, working as a butcher. After various adventures in the war, he returned to Decatur, then moved to Wilson Co., Kansas, and later to Topeka, back to Decatur, etc. His children and relatives lived in Plymouth, Indiana, and a son in Stark Co., Ohio. The depositions include one by Calvin Spencer, who had lived at Marengo since the fall of 1835. He remembered Jacob, and his brother: "I also remember his brother. The brother was a colporteur in the Presbyterian church; was a sickly kind of a man, who died about or before the time of the breaking out of the war; a short time before, perhaps, as I understand, of consumption." There is also a deposition from Jacob's sister Isabella M. Richmond of Marengo, age 53 (thus born about 1829), mentioning that her brother William had in fact died in Marengo. She had remained in Pennslvania and had moved to Decatur in 1870.
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according to writeup on James J. H. Reedy
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Evan REES (ID #I14982)
(male)
- TITLES/'DIT' NAMES/OCCUPATIONS: Grocer, RR Agent
- BIRTH: 1825, OH
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- DEATH: AFT 1883, Grant Co., IN
Father: Thomas REES (d. ABT 1849)
Family 1
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Sarah C. SMITH (b. 1824, d. AFT 1880)
- MARRIAGE: 10 FEB 1848, Adams Co., Ohio
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- Joseph A. REES (b. 1849)
- Joel A. REES (b. 1853)
- John M. REES (b. 1859)
Family of Thomas Rees, from his will of 1849: wife Eleanor, children Evan, Thomas, Alfred, Joel, executor Samuel Simmons. This suggests there may be other relations between the Smith, Simmons, Rees families. 1870: Richland Tp., Grant Co., IN. 1880: Green Tp., Grant Co., IN. 1860: Sims Tp., Grant Co., IN. He appears on the 1883 list of pensioners with certificate number 184,540. He served in Co. H, 101st Indiana Volunteer Infantry as Captain, 03 oct 1862 - 27 jan 1863.
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Rees family seems to be from Highland Co., OH, and Evan would be either the son of Thomas Rees mentioned in will of latter in 1849, or the brother of Josiah mentioned in will of latter in 1851. (Josiah not son of Thomas?)
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by John Oliver, J.P. - also marriage permission dated 07feb1848 established parentage.
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