When Lamanda Barnhart was born on 8 August 1860, in Jackson Township, Osage, Missouri, United States, her father, George Washington Barnhart, was 36 and her mother, Shirley Lucy Warren, was 34. She married Pleasant "Pleas" Christopher Reed on 7 October 1876, in Osage, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Osage Township, Lincoln, Oklahoma, United States in 1900 and Arkansas City, Cowley, Kansas, United States for about 5 years. She died on 14 April 1934, in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States.