Stephen Reed

Also Stephen Reed Jr. · Stephen Reid

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Life

  1. 1784
    Born
    Wilkes County, North Carolina

    In Clay County, Kentucky, aged 67 in the 1850 census, per WikiTree citing FamilySearch.

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  2. c. 1802
    Married Winnifred (Winny) Hollingsworth
    c. 1802-05, Ashe County, North Carolina, or Clay County, Kentucky

    WikiTree's "married 1802 in Clay County" cannot be right as written; Clay was formed in 1807, and Winnifred would have been about 12.

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Family

Spouse
Winnifred (Winny) Hollingsworth · married c. 1802

A daughter of Vincent Hollingsworth; "Mrs. Stephen (Winny) Reed" is in the published list of his daughters drawn from The Holly Tree.

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Pedigree

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Notes

Not the younger Stephen who married Nancy Powell in 1827 (stephen-reed-1800). He is probably the older of the two Stephen Reids in Clay County in 1830 (aged 40-50, an all-white household) [?], and was in Clay County with his wife and children in 1850.

His children, per WikiTree: James, Larkin, Wiley, Martha Patsy (married a Hollingsworth), Elizabeth (married a Drew), Sarah (married a Hollingsworth), Claiborn and John William. Some online trees give him a second wife named Nancy Powell; the two separate Stephens of 1830 argue against that.

Open questions

  • His 1850 Clay County entry (FamilySearch M6P1-2RP): Winnifred’s age and birthplace and the children’s ages.
  • Vincent Hollingsworth’s 1816 estate record: which Reeds are among the heirs.
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