William Reid Sr

Ancestors

Son of William Reid and [private mother (1940s - unknown)]

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Biography

I grew up in Eugene, Lane Oregon, and went to the public Schools there. I got into researching the family when I was about 25 years of age and with me driving truck it gave me more places that I was able to check firsthand, from what I have been told about the family since then I have been able to prove some of the stories that my great grandmother told were just stories. I have been married three times the first and the last has no children from the union, the second union had two boys and the last union none. I have done DNA test for Ancestry, Family Tree (is a Y-DNA) and My mother and both of my sons have done the Ancestry.com test and I have uploaded results on other sites. I like hunting big game, building black power guns, camping and the outdoors, Brewing Beer and Wine. I grew up in Eugene, Oregon and went to school there. My Maternal side has been in the area since Sep., 1888 they came from Washington County, Ohio where my 3rd Great Grandfather was in the Civil War and his father came from Leesburg, Loudon, Virginia, from Ohio they went too Illinois after the War and then onto Nebraska and Kansas and then on too Oregon, the traveled by rail and it too three days I had found a story from a interview of my Great uncle about him not being able to take his shoe's off for they were hurting his feet because they were to small and his mother was afraid that he would lose them he was three years of age.

I have done a lot of different things so far started to work when I was 14 of age I have worked as a dishwasher, prep-cook, cook, in lumber mills, and truck driving for the last 30 years

Sources

• First-hand information. Entered by William Reid at registration.