Anna Reeder (F)
b. 1 October 1797, d. 14 July 1806, #82130
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     Anna Reeder was born on 1 October 1797. She was the daughter of George Huff Reeder and Margaret Benham Van Cleve. Anna Reeder died on 14 July 1806 at age 8.

John Van Cleve Reeder (M)
b. 9 March 1802, d. 28 August 1809, #82131
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     John Van Cleve Reeder was born on 9 March 1802. He was the son of George Huff Reeder and Margaret Benham Van Cleve. John Van Cleve Reeder died on 28 August 1809 at age 7; killed by a falling tree.

Joseph Huff Reeder (M)
b. 25 July 1804, d. 18 July 1806, #82132
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     Joseph Huff Reeder was born on 25 July 1804. He was the son of George Huff Reeder and Margaret Benham Van Cleve. Joseph Huff Reeder died on 18 July 1806 at age 1.

Jonathan Franklin Reeder (M)
b. 18 June 1806, d. 9 November 1856, #82133
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     Jonathan Franklin Reeder was born on 18 June 1806. He was the son of George Huff Reeder and Margaret Benham Van Cleve. Jonathan Franklin Reeder married Nancy Furnish on 19 July 1827. Jonathan Franklin Reeder died on 9 November 1856 at near, Fairmount, Grant County, Indiana, at age 50.

Nancy Furnish (F)
#82134

     Nancy Furnish married Jonathan Franklin Reeder, son of George Huff Reeder and Margaret Benham Van Cleve, on 19 July 1827.

Sarah Reeder (F)
b. 29 September 1811, d. 18 August 1842, #82135
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     Sarah Reeder married Archibald Crotty Feb 12 1830 or Jun 02 1. Sarah Reeder was born on 29 September 1811. She was the daughter of George Huff Reeder and Margaret Benham Van Cleve. Sarah Reeder died on 18 August 1842 at age 30.

Archibald Crotty (M)
#82136

     Archibald Crotty married Sarah Reeder, daughter of George Huff Reeder and Margaret Benham Van Cleve, Feb 12 1830 or Jun 02 1.

Mary Van Cleve Reeder (F)
b. 30 April 1811, d. 19 October 1865, #82137
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     Mary Van Cleve Reeder was born on 30 April 1811 at Sycamore Creek, Ohio. She was the daughter of George Huff Reeder and Margaret Benham Van Cleve. Mary Van Cleve Reeder married Dr. Ryland Thomas Brown on 25 November 1829. Mary Van Cleve Reeder died on 19 October 1865 at Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, at age 54.

Dr. Ryland Thomas Brown (M)
#82138

     Dr. Ryland Thomas Brown married Mary Van Cleve Reeder, daughter of George Huff Reeder and Margaret Benham Van Cleve, on 25 November 1829.

William Henry Harrison Reeder (M)
b. 15 November 1813, d. 24 June 1885, #82139
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     William Henry Harrison Reeder was born on 15 November 1813 at Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio. He was the son of George Huff Reeder and Margaret Benham Van Cleve.



William Henry Harrison Reeder married Elizabeth Dealy on 17 August 1847. William Henry Harrison Reeder left a will on 17 February 1885 at Grant County, Indiana.

In the name of God, Amen, I William H. H. Reeder, of Grant County and State of Indiana, considering the uncertainty of mortal life, and being of sound and disposing mind, and being desirous of directing how my estate, real and personal, shall be disposed after my decease, do make and publish this my last will and testament; and first, I command my soul to God, and my body to the earth, to be buried in a decent Christian way, without ostentation or extravagant expense.

And as to my earthly estate, real, personal, or mixed, of which I shall die seized and possessed, or to which I may be entitled at the time of my decease, I do devise and bequeath to Elizabeth Reeder, my lawful, faithful and beloved wife, all my estate, real and personal and otherwise to have, hold, and use during her natural lifetime; instructing and empowering her, however, to sell, as soon as advisable in her judgment, as much of said estate as may be necessary to pay all just and lawful debts against said estate, and to defray my funeral, burial and monumental expenses, and instructing her to pay, as soon as practicable thereafter, said debts and expenses, and to the end that the provisions of this, my last will and testament, may be carried out, and my estate put into the best possible position and shape, I hereby give to Elizabeth Reeder, my own lawful wife, full power (and endow her with the same) to execute and carry out the provisions of this Will and Testament, during her natural lifetime, fully authorizing and empowering her to sell any or all of said estate, by public or private sale, at her discretion as to mode and as to prices, and to make and execute such in accordance with the laws of the State of Indiana may admit or require for any oral of said real estate thus sold to pay for purchasing the same, this my last will and testament, also providing that said Elizabeth Reeder, my beloved wife, shall have full power to invest, as she shall see fit, any and all funds accrued from the sale, or sales, of any or all my said estate, (over and above the amount necessary to pay the debts and expenses mentioned in the foregoing); but funds so invested shall through all her natural lifetime, and at her death remain subject to the inheritance of my children as herein after named and provided for, except so much of the same as shall be needed for her personal, comfortable and decent maintenance which shall be for her use, and at her disposal, in both income and capital.

I also further desire and bequeath all my estate, real and personal or mixed, and the proceeds of the same, which shall remain after expenses in the maintenance of my beloved wife in her natural lifetime and in providing for her funeral, burial and monumental expenses, to my own lawful and dutiful children, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Broyles, Mrs. Eliza Catherine Broyles, William Henry Harrison Reeder, Flora M. Reeder, and Robert Braden Reeder, to be shared equally by them, and to belong to them and their heirs and their assigns forever.

I hereby declare the foregoing to be my last will and testament, contained on one sheet of paper, and solemnly enjoin on all interested in the same to harmonize with its provisions:

In witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 17th day of February in the year of our Lord, 1885.     
                                   William H. H. Reeder (Seal)

The above instrument of one sheet, was at the date thereof, declared to us by the testator Wm. H. H. Reeder, son, to be his last Will and Testament; and he acknowledged

to each of us, that he subscribed the same, and we, at his request sign our names hereto as attesting witnesses.

Alexander M. Deesen, residing in Fairmount Township, Grant County, Indiana. Samuel Couch, residing in Jefferson Township, Grant County, Indiana.

State of Indiana, Grant County: Before me, Glyn W. Neal, Clerk of the Grant County Circuit Court, personally came Alexander M. Deesen, one of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing Last Will and Testament of William H. H. Reeder, Sr., late of said county, deceased June 24th and being duly sworn on oath says that he was present at the execution of said last will; that the same was duly executed; that of the time of the execution thereof, said testator was of full age to devise his property, of sound mind and memory and not under any coercion or restraint; that said testator requested him to sign said will as witness thereto, which he accordingly did in the presence of testator and in the presence of Samuel Couch, the other subscribing witness thereto.
                                        Alexander Deesen
                                        
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30th day of June 1885.
                                        Glyn W. Neal, Clerk.

He died on 24 June 1885 at Fairmount Twp., Grant County, Indiana, at age 71. The obituary was written by Bishop Milton Wright, a nephew of the deceased, and was read at the funeral held at the home. The Sermon was preached by Rev. Garretson of the M. E. Church.

Wm. Henry Harrison Reeder, Sr., son of George and Margaret Reeder, was born in Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, on November 15, 1813. Nine years later his parents removed to Rush Co., Indiana, where he lived with little absence, till his marriage on 8-27-1847 to Miss Elizabeth Dealy of Decatur Co., Indiana, with whom he has lived happily and without undiminished affection for thirty-eight years.

A few months after his marriage he settled in Grant Co., Indiana, on land which he had entered about ten years before and where he continued to live with a one year absence till his decease.

He leaves a widow, five children, a number of grandchildren, an only surviving sister and other relatives and friends stricken with the grief over their sad bereavement. Warm were his affections and he did not fail to have them warmly reciprocated by his own faithful wife and dutiful children.

A beloved son died at the age of fourteen years, and a lovely daughter years ago passed on.

Much candor and great sincerity distinguished Mr. Reeder from his childhood years, but these were accompanied with pure and innocent mirth, that, joined fine conversational powers, and a very sympathetic heart, they made him the light of any social circle into which he entered.

A quick and penetrating mind, a sound careful judgment; a quick and firm conscience, an honesty unimpeachable, a deep love for truth and the right, and a like hatred for the wrong, a generosity even to self-sacrificing, sacred reverence for God and religion, love of home and country, and a lively affection for relatives and friends were characteristics of Mr. Reeder, and of his whole life.

His death occurred a few minutes before midnight June 24th A. D., 1885 in the 72nd year of his age.

About two years since, he was afflicted with cancer on his lip, of several years existence, but which at last began to grow. This yielded to treatment, but the disease after lying one year dormant, took hold of his throat and made its inexplorable demand for his life. He has just now yielded up his life to that dreaded monster and his soul to God, in hope of the resurrection and of life everlasting.

Many years before his death, he experienced the power of saving grace. But he made the mistake of not connecting himself with the visible church and, as a consequence, did not enjoy, in these and subsequent years, that degree of grace or maintain that abiding steadfastness which otherwise might have been his.

In his last months, he often said, "I know I have not lived as I ought to have lived." Sometimes this may sound dark: but his faith in God failed not, and he often expressed the fullest resignation to a Divine will.

But he expressed strong desire to live that he might live a better life and that he might obey the commandments of God. He seemed to refer to connection with the church and the observance of the ordinances of God's house.

He expressed strong desire that his children should none of them put off duty as he had done, but live better lives than he has lived. But a number of times he expressed full resignation to the will of God and confidence that all would be well with him eternally. He trusted not in his own merits, but in the merits of the Savior's atonement. His was that righteousness which is by faith.He knew the power of living, loving faith. "He that believeth in the Son is not condemned", says the Savior. "He that believeth in the Son hath everlasting life" says John the Baptist. "Therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace, to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed", says Paul. "God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him" says the Apostle John. And the same apostle says, "Everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God."

Seeing then as James says that "God purifies the heart by faith", that " faith which worketh by love" let us like the Apostle Paul fight "the good fight" and keep "the faith" that we may have "an entrance abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." - Amen.

Elizabeth Dealy (F)
b. 29 December 1824, d. 6 April 1892, #82140

     Elizabeth Dealy was born on 29 December 1824. She married William Henry Harrison Reeder, son of George Huff Reeder and Margaret Benham Van Cleve, on 17 August 1847. Elizabeth Dealy died on 6 April 1892 at age 67. In Memoriam
Mrs. Elizabeth Reeder's maiden name was Dealy. Her father, Wm. N. Dealy (it is thought a native of New York) migrated from Tennessee to North Carolina and married there Mary Lizzie Daner, and afterwards removed to Madison County, Kentucky, where Mrs. Reeder was born on December 29, 1824. When she was about six years of age, her parents moved to Decatur County, Indiana, where she came to the years of womanhood under the parental roof, and received a fair education. While engaged as a schoolteacher, she was first seen by William H. H. Reeder and at once gained his admiration and affection; and they were married at her father's residence on August 27, 1847. They lived happily in each other's confidence and affection till the husband's death, June 24, 1885, nearly 38 years.

For a few years past, Mrs. Reeder has had some threatening attacks of sickness and has been especially bad the past year. Finally after nearly three weeks of severe sickness, she breathed her last, at her home, the evening of May 6, 1892, aged sixty-seven years, 4 months, and 7 days.

A few months after their marriage Mr. And Mrs. Reeder came to this home where except one year away, they remained until death, and where they well deserved the confidence and esteem of all who were acquainted with them.

To Mr. And Mrs. Reeder were born four daughters and three sons. One son and one daughter preceded them to the spirit land. The surviving three daughters and two sons are all married and live in this and Delaware Counties. Her children were almost constantly with her in her last sickness and possible for her relief and comfort, and are here today as mourners over the loss of a most faithful and affectionate mother whom they appreciated and dearly loved, and with them in like grief are gathered a number of her grandchildren.

In her youth, Mrs. Reeder became a member of the Church of United Brethren in Christ; but for some reason she soon after united with the Disciples Church (Christian) of which she continued a member till after her removal to this county, when she received a letter of good standing which she retained until her death, never further uniting with any church organization, though all these years a devout believer.

She talked in her last sickness of her trust in God and confident hope of heaven. We have no reason to doubt here acceptance with God.

In her last sickness she often expressed her desire to die. Her sufferings were very severe, but at the close, she went almost without a struggle. She died in the bosom of her family and rests from life's tolls and sufferings.

It is not to be asserted that Mrs. Reeder had none of the weaknesses and infirmities of soul which are common inheritance of all the human family. But such was the strength of her character, that these certainly almost or entirely escaped common observation - if they were ever manifested at all.

Among Mr. Reeder's striking characteristics were integrity, good sense, and womanly dignity. In all these qualities she excelled. She was modest, unassuming and very humble in spirit, but a native dignity dwelt within her soul, clothed her form, sat upon her countenance and spoke in her words and actions. With her it was perfectly natural. It could not have been otherwise. She was discreet and thoughtful in speech and action. She had a loving confiding heart. Unfailing kindness was one of her characteristics. No one was a truer friend.

Her confidence, if fairly won, could not be shaken, and her friendship was as uniform as it was unfailing. In uprightness of purpose, and life, she never failed, nor did she seem to have any temptation to deviate from the path of rectitude.

All of her conversation and life evinced her undeviating confidence in the truth of the Christian religion. She never uttered a word or did an act that admitted of any other view. One could not be with her at any time without feeling that she was experimentally acquainted with Christianity. Her spirit, her manner, her conversation, and her life seem imbued with it. She was far from being loud in her profession; but her conversation, and deportment, were the loudest kind of profession. One could not have taken her for anything else than a devout believer in Christ.

In conversation with her, in her last sickness she expressed her confident trust in God; but also her sense of the fact that she had done so little good. All might say the same, and with so much good reason. But a good wife, a good mother, an irreproachable Christian woman cannot live a long life in any family and in any community, without doing much good.

A star shines none the less brightly because it does not see its own silvery beams. I have been acquainted with Aunt Reeder for forty-four years and much of that time intimately, and I am sure there was never a blot on her character. Her character was unusually consistent. Thus I have seen her. She was an amiable woman, a womanly woman, and a grand woman.

Mrs. Reeder was human. Her human nature was well developed and we love her the more that it was so. Our sympathies do not go out toward angels. I am talking of her as a human being - a pure and noble woman. At best we are saved only by grace; and

rightly she felt that she had no merit to boast. Her views of herself in the sight of God were very humble.

Aunt was a woman of patient toil; she suffered not a little of the infirmities of this life; she gradually neared the grave; she rests from life's toils and pains and sorrows. God giveth her blessed sleep. Aunt was domestic. Her sphere was in the home and family. Her husband and her children lived in her heart. And so she lives yet in the hearts of those who survive her, and ever will live. May they all initiate her virtues and share her home above.

It may be thought that I speak of her strongly; If so, I may say that in over two score years of acquaintance, I have no recollection of anything in her life that would permit me to speak otherwise. Her undeviating kindness to me would furnish ample apology, if any were needed, but none is needed.

We lay away Aunt's weary body where she will rest beside the companion of her youth, so dearly loved. Never hearts loved more promptly nor more abidingly. In life they were one; in death they are not divided, and we confidently hope that their souls together are now enjoying the heavenly inheritance. They were much unlike each other and yet they were much alike in many noble characteristics. Their characters are a rich inheritance to their children.
                         ---Milton Wright, Grant Co., Indiana

May 8, 1892, Grant Co., Indiana.

Benjamin Van Cleve Reeder (M)
b. 20 February 1816, d. 22 October 1816, #82141
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     Benjamin Van Cleve Reeder was born on 20 February 1816. He was the son of George Huff Reeder and Margaret Benham Van Cleve. Benjamin Van Cleve Reeder died on 22 October 1816 at age 0.

George Conover Reeder (M)
b. 15 May 1818, d. 29 August 1900, #82142
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     George Conover Reeder was born on 15 May 1818 at Centerville, Ohio. He was the son of George Huff Reeder and Margaret Benham Van Cleve. George Conover Reeder married Celia Catherine Donnell on 12 January 1847 at Decatur County, Indiana. George Conover Reeder was shown in the census in 1850 as a farmer.
George Conover Reeder and Celia Catherine Donnell appeared on the census of 1850 at with his mother, Rush County, Indiana.
George Conover Reeder appeared on the census of 4 June 1900 at with his daughter Sina, Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas; a widower. He died on 29 August 1900 at Kansas at age 82.

Celia Catherine Donnell (F)
b. 28 January 1821, d. 19 March 1889, #82143

     Celia Catherine Donnell was born on 28 January 1821 at Orange County, Indiana. She married George Conover Reeder, son of George Huff Reeder and Margaret Benham Van Cleve, on 12 January 1847 at Decatur County, Indiana.
Celia Catherine Donnell and George Conover Reeder appeared on the census of 1850 at with his mother, Rush County, Indiana. Celia Catherine Donnell died on 19 March 1889 at Knoxville, Marion County, Iowa, at age 68.

Eliza Reeder (F)
b. 15 April 1821, #82144
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     Eliza Reeder was born on 15 April 1821 at Centerville, Ohio. She was the daughter of George Huff Reeder and Margaret Benham Van Cleve. Eliza Reeder married John Braden on 3 September 1840.

John Braden (M)
#82145

     John Braden died at Watseka, Iroquois County, Illinois. John Braden was born at Kentucky. He married Eliza Reeder, daughter of George Huff Reeder and Margaret Benham Van Cleve, on 3 September 1840.

Samuel Smith Wright (M)
b. 21 November 1818, d. 18 July 1842, #82146
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     Samuel Smith Wright was born on 21 November 1818 at Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio. He was the son of Daniel Wright Jr. and Catherine Reeder. Samuel Smith Wright died on 18 July 1842 at age 23.

Harvey Wright (M)
b. 9 September 1820, d. 22 June 1906, #82147
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     Harvey Wright was born on 9 September 1820 at Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio. He was the son of Daniel Wright Jr. and Catherine Reeder. Harvey Wright married Delilah Stephan. Harvey Wright died on 22 June 1906 at age 85.

Delilah Stephan (F)
#82148

     Delilah Stephan married Harvey Wright, son of Daniel Wright Jr. and Catherine Reeder.

George Wright (M)
b. 1822, d. 1822, #82149
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     George Wright died young in 1822. George Wright was born in 1822 at Rush County, Indiana. He was the son of Daniel Wright Jr. and Catherine Reeder.

Sarah Wright (F)
b. 21 November 1824, d. 23 December 1868, #82150
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     Sarah Wright was born on 21 November 1824 at Rush County, Indiana. She was the daughter of Daniel Wright Jr. and Catherine Reeder. Sarah Wright married Charles Harris. Sarah Wright died on 23 December 1868 at age 44.