Brief Life History of Gabriel Henry
When Gabriel Henry Reed was born in November 1850, in Kentucky, United States, his father, Robert Reed, was 45 and his mother, Nancy J Peter, was 36. He married Minnie Risk Sweet on 3 October 1892, in Logan, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Empire City, Galena, Cherokee, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Coffeyville, Montgomery, Kansas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 21 June 1921, in Kansas, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Coffeyville, Montgomery, Kansas, United States.
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- G H Reed, "Kansas State Census, 1915"
- Reed, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
- Gabriel H Reed, "United States Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1800-c. 1955"
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1854
Bleeding Kansas was a time period between the years 1854 and 1861 with a series of violent confrontations over whether slavery would be legal in Kansas Territory.
1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
1877 · Nicodemus is Founded
The town of Nicodemus was founded by African-American migrants from Kansas in 1877.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English and Older Scots red(e) ‘red’, no doubt denoting someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion.
English: from Middle English ride, rede, rude (Old English rīed, rēod, rȳd) ‘clearing’. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived in or near a clearing, or habitational, for someone who lived at one of a number of places so named, including Rede Court in Strood (Kent), Rides in Eastchurch (Kent), Ride Way in Ewhurst (Surrey), and Reed Farm in Wadhurst (Sussex). The word is particularly common in the southeastern counties of England, from Kent to the Isle of Wight. See also Rider and Reader .
English: habitational name from Read (Lancashire), Reed (Hertfordshire), or Rede (Suffolk). The Lancashire placename derives from Old English rǣge ‘roe, female roe deer’ + hēafod ‘head’. The Hertfordshire placename derives from Old English rȳhth ‘rough piece of ground’. The etymology of the Suffolk placename is uncertain.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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