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Below is a family biography from the book, History of Kentucky, Edition 1 by J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin and G. C. Kniffin and published by F. A. Battey Publishing Company in 1885. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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CAPT. WILLIAM P. REED was born June 4, 1838, on the place where he now resides, in Fulton County, Ky. He is a son of Archibald Reed, a native of Jessamine County, Ky., who removed to Fulton County in 1828, where he died in 1873, at the age of sixty-one years. Archibald married Mary Hawkins, also of Jessamine County, and this union was blessed with the following children: Elizabeth A. (Burnett), Rosa E. (Roper), John H., Mary (Bard), Catherine, Thomas J., Sarah (Carpenter), subject, Isabelle (Pewitt) and Martha H. (Noonan). Capt. Reed was married December 17, 1868, to Miss Mary E., daughter of J. B. and Margaret (Brown) Alexander, of Fulton County (born September 25, 1849, and died May 17, 1875), and from this marriage sprang Katie E. On February 7, 1883, he married Miss Mary A., daughter of John M. and Mary E. (Turner) Milner, of Hickman County, and to them has been born William C., May 6, 1884. Subject is a successful farmer owning 210 acres of productive land. He is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and in politics adheres to the tenets of the old line Whigs.
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This family biography is one of 114 biographies included in the Fulton County, Kentucky section of the book, The History of Kentucky, Edition 1 published in 1885 by F. A. Battey Publishing Company. For the complete description, click here: History of Kentucky, Edition 1
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