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Cynthia HancockPop-up Pedigree Marriage*: Principal=Jonathon Reeder Note*: A LETTER FROM THOMAS MYERS REEDER’SGRANDMOTHER. CYNTHIA, TO ONE OF HER GRANDCHILDREN. (Notes and names in parenthesis made by Mary Phyllis (Reeder) Fletcher, December 1973.) Elwood, Indiana March 7, 1893. Mr. Johnnie and Julia Reeder, Dear Grandchildren: I received you welcome letter of February 23 in due time and was gladto hear that you were well and had a nice home for I have thought of youso many times with fear that you might be having a hard time. However,happiness doesn't’t consist in having an abundance of this world’s goods. I will try to give the information you request as best I can. First,your Aunt Sophia and Uncle Lige are both dead. John lives in the oldplace, and Jeff lives in Frankton. Adda Bruce lives in Columbus,Indiana. Joseph is somewhere in the West and Uncle James lives on theplace near Frankton. Your cousin, Katie and Etta Warren get their mailat Elwood. Your Aunt Cata’s children all live in Elwood and I don’t knowwhere Cynthia Waymire gets her mail. E. F. Ring and Margaret Mellet havesix boys. Angeline Good and Minna Kidwell have three children. Yourcousin Johnny (John Baltimore Reeder) Reeder, is Recorder of TiptonCounty and lives in Tipton. Cassy lives somewhere in Missouri. Arbell’saddress is Terryhall. Scottie married a young lady by the name of Shaw.They have two boys (one named Albert, married Donna who has paintedlovely miniatures treasured by Phyllis Fletcher) and now reside inNevada. All of them live in or near Nevada but I don’t recall the nameof the youngest girl’s husband. They are all married. (Nevada is a smalltown in Indiana) Your Uncle Scott’s address is Kempton, Tipton County,Indiana. Jim and Tom live at Kamden. Jim has two children, a boy and agirl. Tom married Minna Norton and they don’t have a family. JosieHoffs has a little girl. Albert Hudson and Cora Larue were married onChristmas and lives here in Elwood. Your Uncle Tom’s address isSpringport, Henry County, Indiana. Raymond is married to Emma Waimmer.Your Aunt Sally Champer lives in Harvey, Illinois, twenty-four miles south of Chicago. Herdaughter, Bell Hyatt, lives in Clay City. Nathan Hudson is inCincinnati. Ella and her husband, Joseph Clemmons live in Kokomo. Thisis all the information that I can give concerning your aunts, uncles, andcousins. Now I will try to tell you of my parents and grand parents. Mygrandmother, whose maiden name was Mary Bush, married a man by the nameof Wallis and had a family of four children, two boys and two girls.Later on Wallis was killed by the Indians and my grandmother marriedHancock, my grandfather. They had one son, Joseph Hancock, my father.Then Grandfather also was killed by the Indians and Grandmother was lefta widow the second time. When my father was sixteen years of age, heenlisted and served seven years in the Revolutionary War. He then marriedKatherine Baltimore, my mother, in Pennsylvania. From there they went toKentucky and later on to Montgomery County, Ohio where I was born. Out ofa family of twelve children, nine grew up and were married as follows:Lissa to Levi Bower, Nancy to Ben Warren, Polly to Samuel Taylor, Kata toAbraham Covault, Sophia to Erastus Virgil, Naomi first to Wm. Martindale,second to Rufas Way, third to Amos Vinson, and fourth to John Zeks,Cynthia married Jonathan Reeder and brother John married Betsy Pollard.Her mother and I both came from families in which there were halfbrothers and sisters. Brother Joseph had a son, Ephsum M. Hancock, whomarried and moved out west to somewhere in Kansas. Brother John’s Josephlives in Anderson. I am the youngest of twelve children and only one living. If I liveuntil June 16, I will be eighty-four years of age. Your GrandfatherJonathan Reeder’s grandparents were Irish. Their names were McCarnus andthey lived in Maryland. Dianna married John Reeder in Hampshire County,West Virginia. They had a family of six children the four oldest of whichwere born in Virginia and the remaining two in Ohio. Four of thesechildren lived to marry as follows : Jonathan to Cynthia Hancock (thewriter of this letter), Betsy to Wm. Murphy, Sallie, first to JohnMurphy, second to John Mellet. Jessie’s father, William Murphy’s son Junior, marred a Watson. Salliemarried a son of Watson Rows, an off-spring of Father’s half-sister.Millie Wallis married Mike Watson and moved out west. (The second Salliementioned may have been a mistaken name, either by Cynthia, or in one ofthe many times this letter has been recopied and handed down thru the years.) Jonna, I doubt whether you can get much sense from my scribbling butplease excuse all the errors. Jonna, when Father died his old familyBible and his discharge papers from the Revolutionary War went into thehands of Philip Hancock. Philip died at the home of Seth Adamson, F.Burkett’s uncle. If these things which I have mentioned, have been kept, I which you, throughBurketts, could get the family record the the discharge papers for me andI will be much obliged to you. As ever ‘till death, Grandma Reeder (Note : After studying this letter over and over I was amazed at thememory of this woman at the age of almost 84. There are about 80 peoplenamed and many, many places.) Burial*: Birth*: 16 June 1809, Montgomery County, Ohio, U.S.A. Death*: circa 1892, Elwood, Madison County, Indiana, U.S.A. Parents:
Father: Joseph Hancock , Sr. b. circa 1750 Mother: Katherine Baltimore
Family: Jonathon Reeder b. circa 1788
Children:
Sophia Or Sige Reeder Sally Reeder+ Catherine Reeder John Reeder Adda Reeder James Reeder Cata Reeder Scott 'Scottie' Reeder+ Tom Reeder Jeff Reeder Joseph Handcock Reeder , Sr.+ b. 30 May 1830, d. 29 Jan 1875
Richard John HancockBirth*: 13 July 1965 Death*: 9 August 1971
Abraham HandeyDeath*: Note*: Person Source Marriage*: Principal=Rhobey Corey Birth*: circa 1850 Family: Rhobey Corey b. November 1850
James Archibald 'Archie' HandlenBirth*: 6 September 1907, Liddington, England Marriage*: 13 July 1928, Anyox, British Columbia, Canada, Principal=Minnie Matilda Ennis Family: Minnie Matilda Ennis b. 14 October 1907
Phyllis HandleyDeath*: Deceased
George Davis HandyDeath*: Birth*: Note*: Person Source Marriage*: 19 July 1846, Tiverton, Newport County, Rhode Island, Principal=Mary Cory Family: Mary Cory b. September 1822
Richard Eugene HanfordNote*: Person Source Birth*: 31 July 1935, Spokane, Spokane Co, Washington Death*: March 1981, Tacoma, Pierce Co, Washington
William HaningtonDeath*: Deceased
Michael HanlerDeath*: Deceased Family: Lydia ? d. Deceased
Bridget Agnes HanlonBirth*: 1882, Ireland Marriage*: 19 December 1918, Principal=John McKenna Death*: January 1976, Canada Family: John McKenna b. 1879, d. December 1945
Children:
Rosaleen McKenna+ b. 6 Oct 1925, d. 8 Oct 1991
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