Huldah (Colyer) Abbott (1815 - 1900)

Born 25 Apr 1815 in Logan, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Reames — married [date unknown] in Cass County, Michigan, USA

Descendants

Died 23 Sep 1900 at age 85 in Cass, Michigan, United States

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Biography

Huldah was born about 1815 and passed away about 1900

Buried at Au Clair, Berrien Co, Michigan

Hulda Colyar was the daughter of Samuel Pike Colyar and Margaret Pearson. The Colyar family migrated from Logan County, Ohio to Cass County, Michigan about 1830. She married Joseph "Joses" Reams on 30 December 1831 in Michigan. Family tradition states that Joses wanted to move the family to the west and went to the Washington Territory to seek a new home to settle in the early 1850's. While in the west he died. Hulda then remarried in 1859 to William Abbott (a widower) of Prairie Ronde, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. Little in known of Hulda's life other than she was the mother of atleast eight children with Mr. Reams. Five of her sons fought for the Union during the Civil War. Three of them are buried in National Cemeteries. She died in Bellevue while caring for her son Uriah who had become an invalid.

Her children were: Samuel C. Reams (1832-1921) Mahala Reams Rush (1834-1873) Uriah Reams (1837-1904) Oscar F. Reams (1839-1864) Erastus E. Reams (1841-1912) Zephaniah Reams (1845-1863) Leander Reams (1848-1932) Elizabeth Reams Bentley (1854-1894)

Sources

• "MyTrees.com," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3RWD-95X : accessed 23 April 2020), entry for Huldah Colyar; file (2:2:2:MMXS-CD6), submitted 16 December 2019.

• “THE REAMS, REAMES FAMILY AND ALLIED FAMILIES,” by H. C. Smith, MD, page 118

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 23 April 2020), memorial page for Huldah Colyar Reams Abbott (25 Apr 1815–23 Sep 1900), Find a Grave Memorial no. 61892302, citing Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Berrien County, Michigan, USA ; Maintained by David R. Grinnell (contributor 47016582) .