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- Miles Felix Reed 1 2 3 4, son of Edward Reed and Rebecca Ridenhour, was born in 1836 in Missouri 4 died on 11 Nov 1881 in Nocona, TX, at age 45 4, and was buried on an unknown date in Reed Cemetery, Bonita, Montague County, Texas 4.
General Notes: Enumerated in the 1860 Montague County Census. Age listed a s 24, from MO, Farmer. Name is misspelled as Miles T. A son, John M., age one, born in MO, is listed
Also there is a deed where Miles Reed bought a blacksmith shop in St Jo for $ 137.00 on June 20, 1876. He purchased it from R. H Wood. It was located on the N W corner of the public square.
Miles married Sarah Jane Hayes 4 in 1858.
He first came to Texas with his parents, wife and child just prior to the 1860 Montague Co. Census. The Indian trouble caused him and his father to sell their property just above St. Jo and move to Ciike County (next to Montague Co) where there were soldiers and rangers to protect the people from the Indians. After the war started he joined Captain Ragsdale's Company, Texas Confederate Calvary as a private.
He enlisted in 1864 at Gainesville, Cooke Co., Tx and was stationed at Fort Smith Arkansas, where his company helped to quell Indian uprisings in the Indian Territory across the Arkansas River.
They all moved back to Texas, again settling above St. Jo, Montague Co., Tx. sometime after 1876. (see Blacksmith bill of sale above.).
Miles built a home before 1881, where he was living when he suddenly died at age 46 in 1881.
Sarah died in 1918 at her home near St. Jo, Tx. All eleven of her children were with her when she died. According to Sarah, her father was from a good family, but he was a black sheep. Her mother died in childbirth after giving birth to a small boy. Her mother was trying to tell her something just before she died. Sarah couldn't understand her and wondered the rest of her life what it was her mother had been trying to say. A few weeks after her mother's death, her father returned home with a new wife who was only a few years older than Rebecca. Rebecca ran away and made it on her own.
A Sarah Hayes is listed in the Indian Rolls as Chiskasaw by Blood, which means full blooded. Do not know if this is her.
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1841 - 1918 (76 years)
