John Reed (1783 - 1846)

Born 12 Oct 1783 in Acworth, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Rebecca (Bearce) Reed — married 1805 in Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States

Descendants

Died Oct 1846 at about age 62 in Bonaparte, Van Buren, Iowa, United States

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Biography

John became a member of the LDS Church between 1830 - 1848.

John was born in 1783, the son of Supply Reed and Susannah Byam. He married Rebecca Bearce, daughter of Josiah Bearce, and had at least 4 children: Lee, Clarissa, Laura and Levi. She was born on 30 September 1785 in New Milford, [Litchfield County,] Connecticut.

Around 1820, at age 37, John moved with his family of four (Lee (1810), Caroline (1812), Clarissa (1814) and Willard (1818) from Acworth, New Hampshire to Kirtland, Ohio, where he did the ironwork for the first Mormon temple in the United States. John Reed was baptized into the Mormon faith in 1830, the earliest date on record. He is listed in their records as a "High Priest" on the Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register and was a personal friend of Joseph Smith. The Mormon records list him as one of those "Latter-Day Saints who received a special blessing in Kirtland for working on the construction of the Mormon Temple 7-8 March 1835."

Later he moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, which is on the Mississippi River across from Keokuk, Iowa. The Mormons fragmented after Joseph Smith's assassination in 1844. John Reed apparently left Nauvoo with the main group of Mormons in 1846 but he stayed in Iowa. As the Mormons moved west across Iowa, they established several semi-permanent settlements where they built cabins and planted crops. These stations provided rest and provisions for wagon trains that followed during the next few years. It was at one of these communities that John died at age 65. His wife Rebecca died four months later in Pottawattamie County, across the Missouri River from the main Mormon camp, Winter Quarters, near Omaha, Nebraska. John died in 1846. He is buried in the Bonaparte Cemetery, Bonaparte, Van Buren County, Iowa. ^[1]

Name

Name: John /Reed/^[2]

Birth

Birth:

Date: 12 October 1783

Place: Acworth, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA^[2]

Death

Death:

Date: October 1846

Place: Bonaparte, Van Buren, Iowa, USA^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 08 March 2019), memorial page for John Reed (12 Oct 1783–Oct 1846), Find A Grave Memorial no. 66092427, URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66092427/john-reed ..citing Bonaparte Cemetery, Bonaparte, Van Buren County, Iowa, USA ; Maintained by Arnold Reed (contributor 47445708) .
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} OneWorldTree, Ancestry.com. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc.

• Web Page (Link to the Record)
• https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDNB-6YQ
• Where The Record Is Found (Citation)
• "New Hampshire Births and Christenings, 1714-1904", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDNB-6YQ : 18 January 2020), John Reed, 1783.

Acknowledgement

• Reed-5410 was created by John Young through the import of Young Family Tree.ged on Jan 12, 2014.