Biographical Sketch of Mrs. Moranda Reid, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Mrs. Moranda Reid, Section 27, Postoffice St. Joseph, is a daughter of
Major William C. Connett, of whom mention is made elsewhere, and was 
born in Fayette County, Kentucky, January 20, 1828.  She was there 
partly reared, and in Scott County, Kentucky, and was educated in the
common schools, and also attended the convent at Lexington, Kentucky.
In the spring of 1839, she came with her parents to Buchanan County,
Missouri.  On April 5, 1855, she was married to Walker G. Reid, who
was born August 15, 1814, in Loudoun County, Virginia.  When five years
of age his parents moved to Mason County, Kentucky.  In 1835 he was
married to Miss Lustey, who died fourteen months afterwards, and he 
then spent several months steamboating on the Ohio and Mississippi
Rivers.  In the spring of 1843 he married Miss Sarah Burgess, and in 
the spring of 1844 came to Missouri and located in Buchanan County. In
1850 he went to California and returned in 1852, and in 1854 his second
wife died.  By his third wife he had eight children, six now living:
John, born June 11, 1857; Benjamin F., born November 5, 1859; Charles
W., born March 25, 1862; Alverda W., known as Birtie Reid, born Novem-
ber 5, 1864; Gertrude G., born August 2, 1868, and Stella S., born in
1871.  The farm which Mrs. Reid now ocupies contains three hundred 
acres, being mostly improved.  Since the death of her husband she has
carried on the farm.  She takes considerable interest in the education
of her children in both science and music.

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