When Benjamin Reeder was born on 22 May 1850, in Illinois, United States, his father, Abisha Reeder, was 37 and his mother, Charity Ann Jones, was 31. He married Martha Ann Hendricks on 14 November 1872, in Pike, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Township of Derry, Pike, Illinois, United States in 1910 and Township of Pleasant Vale, Pike, Illinois, United States in 1920. He died on 22 September 1926, in New Canton, Pike, Illinois, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Barry, Pike, Illinois, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1869: Pike, Illinois, United States
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English: occupational name for someone who used reeds as a roofing material (a thatcher), a derivative of Middle English rede ‘reed’ + -er. Compare Reed and Redman .
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a clearing, a derivative of Middle English rede, ride, rude ‘clearing’ (see Reed ) + -er, synonymous and interchangeable with atte Rede, atte Rude ‘at the clearing’. This type of name, composed of a topographic term + -er, is common in Kent, Surrey and Sussex, and it is also found in Essex.
Dutch and German: variant of Reder 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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