MELCHIOR YODER LINE - Part FIVE M3 thru M7 - Yoder Family ...

Virtha died 24 July 1990, aged 92 years.M33a-321 John Lewis Gilmore, Jr. born 9 December 1917 in Chanute,Neosho County, KS; died 15 April 1943, aged 25 years, in Kansas City, Jackson County,MO.M33c John Patrick Reed born 26 October 1842 in Hamden, Vinton County, Ohio.John served in the 44 th Ohio Infantry during the Civil War. He was in many battles andwas captured and sent to Libby Prison, but was paroled at Little Rock , AR.Farmer and stock dealer. By 1872, he owned 3,700 well stocked acres in Lyon County,KY along the Cumberland River above its confluence with Livingston Creek. Manysharecroppers worked this fertile bottomland of two or three miles along the south sideof the creek. It required a large labor force to carry on Mr. Reed’s extensive farmoperation. Some who worked there spoke of mile-long corn rows. There were sufficientblack sharecroppers to support a church which also served as a school on Mr. Reed’sland overlooking Livingston Creek.Residence: Reed’s Mill near Hamden, Clinton Township, Vinton County, OH,1842-1860; Marion, Crittenden County, KY, 1870-1900; Kuttawa, Lyon County, KY, to1916. m.(1) circa 1865 in Sandy Grove, Whitley County, KY, to Susan Bell Morse (born27 January 1852 in OH – died February 1887, aged 35 years, in Fredonia County, KY).m.(2) October 1887 in KY to Eliza Hardin Durham (born circa 1850 – died before 1895in KY). m.(3) October 1895 in KY to Martha Eleanor Martin “Mattie” Williams (born 22July 1855 – died 9 June 1937, aged 41 years, in Kuttawa, Lyon County, KY). John died20 December 1916, aged 74 years, in Kuttawa.M33c-1 Annaborn circa 1867 at Sandy Grove, Whitley County, KY.M33c-2 Homer Enos born 10 May 1869 at Sandy Grove, Whitley County,KY; died 27 July 1890, aged 31 years.+M33c-3 Presley Logan born 17 December 1870 in Marion, Crittenden County,KY. Presley died February 1966, aged 95 years, in Suwanee, Kutaway Township, LyonCounty, KY.M33c-4 Ivy ElizabethKY. Ivy died after 1953.born 20 December 1874 in Marion, Crittenden County,M33c-5 John Henry born 18 December 1875 in Marion, Crittenden County,KY. John died 13 March 1950, aged 74 years, in KY; interred Hebron Church Cemetery,Fredonia, KY.M33c-6 Lucy E.born circa 1876 in Marion, Crittenden County, KY.+M33c-7 Dora Anna born 06 April 1878.