Oscar Montgomery [Parents] was born in 1871/1872. He died . He married Rispah Hudson.
Rispah Hudson died . She married Oscar Montgomery.
They had the following children:
William Ira Montgomery [Parents] was born on Jan 5 1874. He died . He married Hannah Hudson.
Hannah Hudson died . She married William Ira Montgomery.
They had the following children:
F i Edna Montgomery died in Died in Infancy.. F ii Eunice Montgomery died Unknown. F iii Irma Montgomery died Unknown. F iv Velma Montgomery died Unknown. M v Claude Montgomery died Unknown.
William Hudson died . He married Naomi Montgomery.
Naomi Montgomery [Parents] was born on Mar 13 1877. She died . She married William Hudson.
Other marriages:Scoggins, Jim
They had the following children:
F i Willie Josie Hudson died Unknown. F ii Birdie Hudson died Unknown.
Unknown Unknown died Unknown. He married Willie Josie Hudson.
Willie Josie Hudson [Parents] died Unknown. She married Unknown Unknown.
They had the following children:
M i Glenn Unknown died Unknown. F ii Louise Unknown died Unknown. F iii Dora B. Birdie Unknown died Unknown.
George McKinley died Unknown. He married Dora B. Birdie Unknown.
Dora B. Birdie Unknown [Parents] died Unknown. She married George McKinley.
They had the following children:
F i Billie Jane McKinley. F ii Patricia Ann McKinley.
Jim Scoggins died . He married Naomi Montgomery.
Naomi Montgomery [Parents] was born on Mar 13 1877. She died . She married Jim Scoggins.
Other marriages:Hudson, William
Charles Richard Montgomery [Parents] was born on Feb 24 1883. He died . He married Bonnie Capbell on Apr 27 1911.
Bonnie Capbell died . She married Charles Richard Montgomery on Apr 27 1911.
They had the following children:
M i Odell Montgomery died Unknown. F ii Vera May Montgomery died Unknown. F iii Naomi Montgomery died in Died in Infancy..
George Danner died . He married Myrtle Montgomery.
Myrtle Montgomery [Parents] was born on Feb 4 1885. She died . She married George Danner.
They had the following children:
F i Ruby Danner died Unknown. F ii Lucille Danner died Unknown. F iii Janice Louise Danner died Unknown.
James Reed [Parents] was born on Apr 2 1850 in Rusk County, Texas. He died . He married Nancy Evaline Richards on Mar 15 1876.
HISTORY OF THE REED FAMILY FROM 1776 - 1938 -- By James Reed of the fifth generation, the Oldest known member of the family now living. Written at Dublin, Texas From 1933-1938 A large part of this history is written from memory. Used by permission of Esther Gene (Choate) Johnson and Submitted by Winnie Ward Conway.
"Father was a blacksmith. He made all his plows, plowstocks, hoes, grubbing hoes and handles, and ax handles. He also made cow bells, calf bells, five different sizes. He did most of Grandfathers work of that kind. He also made horseshoes and nails. If one family ran out of anything and the other had it, it was passed on and no account kept of it. Father never kept any sheep. Grandfather kept sheep as far back as I can remember. When they sheared the sheep the amount Mother needed was always put aside until it was convenient to send it.
Mother made all our clothes. For Father and us boys she made winter pants out of jeans and they would last until the boys out grew them. They were then passed on down to the next one, but I must say they did not always fit the second owner. Father also made all our shoes. For Mother and the girls he got lighter leather. I do not remember ever seeing him wear a suit of bought clothes. He would buy an overcoat.
The house we lived in when I can first remember was two large rooms with a partition wall between, no door in the partition wall. The house was built of pine logs, hewed smooth. They would face about twelve inches. The house faced south. The ground sloped off gradually for some distance. There was a porch on each side. The one on the North was not floored. There were two doors in the West room and one in the East room. There was not a window in either room. The West room was used for a kitchen. The smokehouse was in the back yard. There was a brick chimney to each room. I will say there were few houses in the community as good.
There was a well in the southwest part of the front yard. Father had the best peach orchard in the community: in fact, the only one. It had five acres. The trees were all seedlings. They knew nothing of budded trees at that time. We dried all the peaches we wanted for home use. There was no market for dried fruit. There were lots of wild grapes, black and dew berries but they knew nothing about canning fruit. The farm and orchard were north and east of the house. A settlement road passed in front of the house, leading east and west. One-half a mile west there was a public road, leading a little north of east, known as the Shreveport road. Shreveport, Louisiana, sixty-five miles from us, was our nearest general market. There was a good deal of travel on that road. Frequently, men who knew Father, passing that way, would come by and spend the night and they would set up and talk until a late hour and I was delighted to listen.
At that time Uncle Ike Reed lived a half mile from us. One night he was coming to our house horseback. He was singing my favorite song and I tried to keep the other children quiet so I could hear. After he came Father told him about my trying to keep the children quiet. He took me in his lap and sang it through and there were several verses. I am sorry to say I can not recall the words.
Father went to Shreveport two and sometimes three times each year. He generally bought a barrel of flour (196 lbs.), (we had biscuits for Sunday morning and when we had company), a half-barrel of molasses, (ribbon cane-the only kind they had then), one hundred pounds of coffee, (it was in its natural state and had to be parched and ground), fifty and one hundred pounds of sugar (that was brown sugar, as we had no granulated sugar.) Father hauled supplies for Grandfather as well as for himself. I do not remember Grandfather ever making the trip to Shreveport.
One time Father was going to Shreveport and a neighbor was going with him but at the last minute the neighbor backed out. Mother insisted he take Bill with him. She said she was sure I would cut wood and keep fires. You can imagine how proud I was that she had that much confidence in me. I was about eight years old and small for my age, and that was always a sore spot for me. Lem was four years older than I but he was sick a good deal of the time and not able to work. I kept the wood cut all right. Usually when Father would make these trips Grandfather would send a negro woman to help with the work. As I said before, I do not remember Grandfather’s ever going to Shreveport and I do not think he worked in the field, although he looked after the work and was always busy.
Grandfather made the water pails. We did not have water buckets like we have now or like we had later. Grandfather made
Several sizes of these vessels. Those used for water buckets would hold about two and one-half gallons. He also made wash tubs; all made of cedar.
Grandfather was a Botanic doctor in a small way. He did not do a general practice. All the medicine he used, and he used quite a variety, was produced from the vegetable kingdom. He did not use as much purgative medicine as doctors do now. His main standby for biliousness was lobelia and surely got results. It is surprising the amount of bile one vomits; and many are the doses of the stuff I have taken.
In the Fall of 1859 Father, Grandfather, Uncle Ike Reed, Uncle John Reed and Uncle Joe Ferguson began to get ready to move West. Father sold 316 acres of land, including all improvements, to George Rhodes and was to give possession the first of January.
Grandfather sold his place to old man Billingsley. He had two sons: John and Jim. Grandfather did not give possession until the first of March, 1860. Father gave possession January 1, 1960 and moved to a house on Grandfathers land. In December of ’59 they moved Uncle Ike Reed and his family and what cattle they had to Freestone County as the winter range was much better there. Uncle Ike was to see after all the cattle. There was a vacant house on Grandfathers land that he occupied until we got there the next March.
The first day of March 1860 they started. There were four families: twenty-one white persons, including children and four negro women, negros were slaves then. I will say here that Father was the leader. He was consulted about any change to be made. When they started he always went before. He had a large wagon and four yoke of oxen. It seemed unreasonable to tell what was in the wagons and tied on. Besides the family clothing and bedding there were a blacksmith’s anvil, bellows, a spinning wheel, chairs and a tent.
Bill came next driving Grandfather’s team of two yoke. Uncle John usually came next. He had two yoke. Uncle Joe came next driving Grandfather’s team of two yoke. Grandfather, Grandmother, and one of their daughters in a carry-all, something like a surrey, working one mule. Then came the negro women driving a little bunch of sheep. There was one mule. They took it time about riding him; they used side saddles. We passed through Rusk, the county seat of Cherokee County, and Palestine in Anderson County. Near there we saw the first Prairie. It was two miles wide. That was a sight to some of us. A day or two later we got to Uncle Ike’s. Uncle Jim Reed and Uncle Harmon Ward lived nearby. We stayed there about three weeks, catching up the cattle.
About the first of April we started West again. In Limestone County we struck the big prairie-thirty miles across. There I saw the first live oak and mesquite trees and the first mule-eared rabbits that I had ever seen. At Clifton we stopped a few days. After resting up two or three days we started on again. About two miles west of Clifton we came to the mountains and the Norwegian settlement. The road ran up a cove and wound around until it got to the top of the mountain, there the land was level and very rich. There was quite a settlement there; all Norwegians. Their principal crop was wheat. The mountain was eight or ten miles long and two or thee miles wide. The west end went up. This was in Bosque County. When we got off the mountain we were in what was known as Meredian Creek Valley. There was no timber. When we went on West to within about six miles of Hamilton, a big rain came that night, the 22nd of April, and I thought it was the most desolate looking place I had ever seen. They stayed there two or three days and sheared the sheep. They decided to turn back to the Meredian Creek Valley. They stopped at a vacant house and looked around. There Uncle Joe Ferguson left us. He moved around, stopped for a short time at different places but finally went back to Rusk County.
They decided to settle there in Meredian Creek Valley. They built Grandfather, Father, and Uncle Ike log houses, no floors, and built some pens for each family and began fencing land for a farm. They had to be done with rails or poles. They had to be hauled four miles. Just at that time some cow hunters from Hamilton County came along: John Barbee, Sol Boykin, Ike Malone, John Anderson, and others. I do not recall their names. They told our folks that Hamilton County was a much better county and had plenty of timber. They dropped all work and Father went to investigate. He decided to move. The 4th day of September, 1860 they landed on Honey Creek where they decided to settle.
They commenced all over again; building somewhat better houses, as they could get better logs nearby, but they had to go ten miles to get board timber. The rafters were little post oak poles with the bark taken off. The lathing was split from wild china or spotted oak. The floors were of puncheons: that was logs split open and one side hewed smooth, which made a solid floor. The door shutters were made of burr oak boards, one could get them as long as was needed. I have seen a big beef hide stretched and dried and used for a door shutter."
... "James Reed, son of Pleasant and Amanda Reed, was born April 2, 1850, in Rusk County, Texas. At the age of ten years he went with his father’s family to Hamilton County. The fourth day of September, 1860 they landed on Honey Creek, three miles East of where the town of Carlton now stands. On February 14, 1863 his father died. At the age of fourteen he and a negro woman were the dependence to make a living for the family: his mother, one sister older than himself, two sisters and two brothers younger. The first crop of wheat was sowed by his mother while he plowed it in with a yoke of oxen. [Bill, his oldest brother was in the Confederate Army. Lem, another brother, as in the Frontier Ranging Service.] At the age of seventeen he became a cowboy. After the cattle business played out he hauled freight with ox teams (four yoke) for two years. He then went to farming. On March 15, 1876 he married Nancy Richards. To them nine children were born; seven of them still living. There are twenty-two grandchildren and seventeen great, grandchildren. He followed farming until he got to old to work. He is in his eighty-ninth year: the oldest of the connection living. James Reed was born April 2, 1850. Nancy Evaline Richards was born July 25, 1853. They were married March 15, 1876."
Nancy Evaline Richards was born on Jul 25 1853. She died . She married James Reed on Mar 15 1876.
They had the following children:
M i Wheeler Allen Reed was born on Jan 31 1877. He died . F ii Amanda Pearl Reed was born on Nov 15 1878. She died on Jun 24 1931. F iii Lena Rebecca Reed was born on Oct 8 1880. She died . F iv Della Virginia Reed was born on Jan 23 1883. She died on Jun 30 1886. F v Mary Estella Reed was born on Jan 26 1885. She died . M vi Jesse Earnest Reed was born on Feb 26 1887. He died . F vii Margie Lorene Reed was born on Nov 8 1889. She died . M viii James Neal Reed was born on Sep 19 1893. He died . F ix Barbara Joyce Reed was born on Oct 12 1897. She died .
Wheeler Allen Reed [Parents] was born on Jan 31 1877. He died . He married Laura Frances Hall on Apr 1 1906.
Laura Frances Hall was born on Feb 29 1884. She died . She married Wheeler Allen Reed on Apr 1 1906.
They had the following children:
F i Velma Jewell Reed was born on Jan 15 1907. She died Unknown.