Harrison Genealogy Repository

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Sources: Birth: Tombstone in Hull Road Church Cemetary

Death: Tombstone in Hull Road Church Cemetary

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Furman Porter's family Bible has his death date as: June 8, 1940

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During 1850 Census, there was a Rebecca Sims in the house. From papers in the Yazoo Court House, it appears that the Reids were boarding this orphan for the court. Mathew Reid was in Hinds County in 1830. He is between 20 & 30 years of age. With him is a female between 15 - 20 years of age. This could not have been his later wife Letitia Jane Hooter who was born in 1827.

In Davidson Co., TN in 1830 one Matthew Reid married a Harriet Walding on April 6, 1830. This may have been our Matthew and a first wife. We are not aware of any children.

In MISSISSIPPI NEWSPAPERS Vol. 3 1813-1850 Page 121 we found: "Married on Feb 2, 1843, by W. N. Peers, Esq, Mr. M Reid to Miss L. J. Hooter daughter of M. Hooter, Eaq, the great bear hunter of Yazoo County. " From the Vicksburg Whig.

Matthew Reid first appeared on Yazoo Tax Roll in 1834.

In Hinds County there was a John Reid, as well as our Matt Reid in 1830. John was born in 1796. Brothers? TN research shows that John Reid filed for bounty land. He enlisted in Dickson Co., TN in War of 1812. He was living in Hinds Co., MS at the time of his filing. He lived on past 1855.

In 1850 census he and Jane are shown with Mary Ann, Virginia, John, and Rebecca Sims. In 1860 he is shown as 57, Jane as 30, Mary as 15, Virginia as 13.

Matthew Reid received a Federal Land Grant in Yazoo County on May 3, 1832.

Several Yankee Raiding parties came through Mechanicsburg in the Spring and Summer of 1863. According to my grandmother, Frances Clunan, the town was a good size, had a large tannery and a farm implement factory - hence its name. In the 1860 census, Matthew lists himself as a MECHANIC.

On one of the several raids, the Yankees openingly robbed the civilians. The came into the Reid house and drug all of the trunks outside and scattered what contents they did not steal. In several cases they fired large stacks of household goods. Matthew Reid had forty-nine bee hives and was working on the 59th. While the yard was full of soldiers, some of their companions kicked over a large number of the hives.

The bees were attacking everyone in sight. My grandmother said that you could hear screaming from every direction. Some of the soldiers were rolling in the dust to dislodge the bees. Civilians retreated inside until the bees calmed down. The Federals then ordered the Reids out of their house, telling them that they were about to burn it. My grandmother's grandmother, Mrs. Reid begged a Yankee Captain to climb into the attic and recover a box of valuable. This, the Yankee did and promptly handed the box to Mrs. Reid. The house was then burned.

In downtown Mechanicsburg, fire was leaping from building to building. Some civilian tossed a small barrel into a burning building and cried "gunpowder!" A Yankee soldier risked his life to recover the gunpowder (apparently scarse). When the barrell proved to be empty, this caused the Yankees to even more fury.

Every building in the town was burned with the exception of the home of Sally Hooter Rosenberg. That house was full of wounded soldiers. It stood for many years, finally falling-down about 1865, after the deaths of the Sturdivant sisters, Miss Lilly and Miss Sarah.

My grandmother's mother was Mary Ann Reid (Molly). She would sit on the Reid front porch waiting for a suitor to arrive. She had a young slave boy to attend to her needs. He took delight in singing a little ditty: "Oh Miss Molly, don't you cry, Your beau will be here by and by."

After new arrived that the war was over and the slaves were to be freed, this same negro lad came running into whatever shelter the Reids then had. He was shouting very excitably "I is free! I is free!" Mrs. Reid or Mary Ann asked him: "What do you mean when you say you are free?" He thought a minute and then replied: "I don't nome." The lad remained with the Reids after the war. At some point afterwards, he had an accident and struck his head in some way, which killed him.

Mr. Reid was an old man by the time the war was over. With no young man in his household we do not know how they survived after their home was burned. In 1868 at the age of about 65, he became sick with a fatal illness. He drifted into a 3-day coma. The family could hear him singing a hymn THERE IS A FOUNTAIN FILLED WITH BLOOD. This he continued to do for the three days. On the last day his lips could be seen moving but no audible sound could be heard unless one placed their ear down next to his lips. It was then that he continued to whisper THERE IS A FOUNTAIN FILLED WITH BLOOD DRAWN FROM EMMANUEL'S VEINS.

We have a copy of a possible kinsman's will, GEORGE REID, Abbeville, SC, April 1786. He mentions daughters Rose Bowie, wife of John Bowie, and Ann Baskins, wife of Capt William Basking, dau MARGARET REID wife of HUGH REID. Sons SAMUEL REID, ALEXANDER REID, JOSEPH REID. Someone has penciled in the following by Hugh Reid's name: Of NC, son of MATTHEW REID of Ireland.

The 1790 census of SC, ninety six district, Abbeville Co., there is a MATHEW REED and 4 females. Someone has written on the sheet: Most of the Abbeyville REEDS/REIDS belonged to Rev Soldier lt COL GEORGE REID/REED, b 1719 who connected, as a nephew or cousin, to the extensive line of REIDS in Rowan Co., NC (Alex Reed)

A Mexican War soldier by the name of MATHEW REED was a vet of that war, in Capt Wheat's Co, Tennessee Volunteers. We don't know what, if any connection, to our family. The company was apparently organized in Memphis.

There were several MATHEW REEDS in early GA.

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Nee Unknown; widow of John Sorrell