Person Sheet


Name Lavinia WASSON61
Birth 29 Sep 1809, Ohio70,71
Death 29 Jul 1883, Cloud Co., Kansas72,73
Misc. Notes
Information from Anne Carroll, Placentia, CA:
Notes for LAVINA WASSON:
Bible Record
Information from family
U.S. Census
Cemetary Records, Cloud County, Kansas, Church of Saron Scandinavian Baptist
Church Cemetary (2 miles NE and 1 mile E of Jamestown, Kansas) Lot #65, lot
owner, L.W. Reid. (Lavina Reid written "Melvina" Reid on cemetery records).
There is no cemetery stone erected there as of 11/96. (See Reid Document
file for document showing location of the lot in the southwest corner of the
cemetery and pictures of the Saron Scandinavian Baptist Church founded 1877.)

Per Jeff (Jefferson) Reid, son of Rufus C. Reid, Grandson of Lafayette W. Reid
and Gr. Grandson of James Reid, "When Lafayette W. Reid went to Kansas, he took his mother, Lavina along". Jeff took his dad, Rufus C. Reid to her grave near
Jamestown, Kansas one time but could not remember exactly where it was.
The church which houses the cemetery listed above where Lavina Reid is buried,
was founded in 1877. Jeanne M. Chubbuck Rt. #3, Box 76, Concordia, KS 66901,
of the Cloud Co. Genealogical Society with whom we have corresponded through the years, says that Saron Scandinavian Baptist Church was a Danish Baptist Church and wonders if the Wasson family could have been "of that group".
Don Reid, who was the grandson of Lavina and James Reid and son of Rufus Corwin Reid told Annette Carroll in August of 1991 that Rufus, his father, said that
Lavina (Wasson) Reid spoke German.
Caroll Don Reid, son of the above Don Ried, lives in Kansas City, Mo. and has
in his possession the rocking chair that belonged to Lavina (Wasson) Reid which
was tied to the covered wagon when Lafayette, his family and mother, Lavina
went to Kansas about 1878. Annette (Strange) Carroll visited with Caroll, his
wife, Una Belle and his father Don in 1989, took a trip to Clyde, Kansas with
Carrol and Don (and Judy Carroll, Annette's sister-in-law) and upon returning
to Kansas City saw this rocking chair along with many other mementos belonging
to the Reid family which Don keeps in his little museum in his home.
Spouses
1 James REID
Birth 17 Oct 1784, Abbeville Dist., South Carolina61,69
Death 16 Mar 1868, Lee Co. Iowa61,69
Father Hugh REID (1746-1829)
Mother Margaret REID (1754-1818)
Marriage 11 Aug 1836, Preble Co., Ohio61,69
Children Lafayette Wasson (1838-1905)
Rufus Corwin (1840-)
Mary Elizabeth (1842->1895)
Last Modified 3 Mar 2001 Created 10 Apr 2004 by Reunion for Macintosh

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