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| Notes for RUFUS CORWIN REID: Cemetary Records-Pleasant Hill Cem., Concordia, Kansas Information from family, Carrol Reid, grandson of Rufus Carwin Reid, whose address in 1991 is 5165 Palmer Dr., Kansas City, Missouri 64129. (Carrol Reid died Aug, 1998. His daughter, Renee, lives at 5169 Palmer Dr., Kansas City, Missouri 64129..12/99) Information also from Carrol's father, Don Reid of Kansas City, Missouri and from Don Reid's brother, Jeff (Jefferson) Reid through letters sent to Annette (Strange) Carroll still in her possession. U.S. Census Rufus and Ida May Reid had 10 children: Mattie May (married Oliver C. Montgomery) Inez Ruby Marion Lafayette (married Ella Menard) Opal Idle (married Wally G. Begnoche) Jeff (Jefferson) Rufus (married Myrtle Sorrell, Ruth _____, & Viola E. Priebe) Lowell Murl (married Natlie Mary ______) Violet Nellie (married Edward W. Ohlson) Don Carwin (married Edith L. Newton) Kermit Fulmer (married Mildred_____ & Anna Mangus) Reo Dow (married Pearl Chartier) Obituary....Jan. 1941 Rufus Carwin (Corwin) Reid Rufus Carwin (Corwin) Reid was born March 30, 1863 at Charleston, Lee County, Iowa and died at his home in Concordia at the age of 77 years, 9 months and 19 days. He was the fourth son of Lafayette and Amanda Reid. His early childhood was spent at his birthplace near Keokuk. He accompanied his father, who was a huckster, over the old plank road to the Mississippi river which was the principal source of transportation in those early days. His first outside work was driving a spike team to assist in pulling the big wagon loads of merchandise from the flat boats on the river up the banks to the foot of Main Street in Keokuk. For this service, he received 75 cents a day. Sixty-three years ago he came to Kansas with his parents in a covered wagon and settled in the vicinity of Concordia. Here on April 8, 1882 he was married to Ida May Fulmer, daughter of Marion and Susan Fulmer. To this union ten children were born, one preceding him in death. This child, Ruby, died at the age of four. Mr. Reid was a retired stonemason, having constructed many of the buildings in Clyde and Concordia. He was a faithful Odd Fellow and received a 25-year button in this order several years ago. This button has been worn by him with a great deal of pride and admiration for the fellowship it represents. He was of Protestant faith although he did not favor any particular denomination. Besides his wife, he is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Mattie Montgomery of McDonald, Mrs. Opal Begnoche of Aurora, and Mrs. Violet Ohlson of Kansas City, Mo.; six sons, Reo of Chemult, Ore., Lowell of Spokane, Wash., Marion of Clyde, Jeff of Des Moines and Don and Kermit Reid of Concordia. He also is survived by one sister, Mrs. Ola Hakes of Ames, two brothers, William and Edwin Reid of Concordia as well as seventeen grandchildren and seventeen great grandchildren. Funeral Services were held Jan. 2 at the Chaput Funeral Parlor with the Rev. Hill of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in charge. Burial was in Pleasant Hill Cemetary. Rufus is buried along with his wife Ida May at Pleasant Hill Cemetary in Concordia, Kansas. During a trip to Clyde, Kansas with Don Reid, son of Rufus Carwin Reid and his son, Caroll Reid in August, 1991, Don told Annette (Strange) Carroll that not only did his father work helping to pull merchandise up from the river boats in Keokuk, Iowa, he also led the horses that pulled the Canal Boats on the Mississippi River. The horses were led along a path along side the River. The streets in Clyde, Kansas are paved with brick set in sand and are still in good condition. Rufus Carwin Reid, a stonemason not only did this work but also supplied the stone blocks that were used in many buildings in Clyde and other structures in Concordia, Kansas. His son, Don Reid, assisted him and also himself built many structures as well as helping Rufus, his dad, set the bricks in the Clyde streets. (Annette Carroll visited Clyde and Concordia with Don and his son, Caroll Reid in August of 1991) A cartoon drawn by Rufus' son, Jefferson (Jeff) Reid in the the Document file along with Lafayette and Amanda Reid's documents. Rufus' middle name "Carwin" has been shown as "Corwin" in some documents, however, in conversation with Don Reid, the son of Rufus Carwin Reid, in August of 1991, Don verified that the spelling according to his family tradition is CARWIN. Annette Carroll had decided that because the name is clearly spelled "Corwin" in Hugh T. Reid's family Bible, this family history will use the Corwin spelling.391 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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