When Nellie G Reid was born in 1863, in Wyandotte Township, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States, her father, Hugh Frances Reid, was 39 and her mother, Jane Butler, was 32. She married Orrin W. Shepherd on 1 January 1884, in Wyandotte, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Manhattan, Manhattan, Riley, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Wyandotte, Kansas, United States for about 15 years. She died in 1928, in Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Highland Park Cemetery, Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1872: Wyandotte, Kansas, United States
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Scottish: variant of Reed , of which Reid is the common modern Scots spelling.
History: Samuel Chester Reid (1783–1861), the sea captain who designed the stars and stripes form of the present the American flag, was born at Norwich, CT. His father, Lt. John Reid, a former British naval officer of a distinguished Glasgow family, had resigned his commission and joined the cause of the American Revolution.
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