Jefferson, OK -- Reid families

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                                    REID
                                      
   Alexander Reid, a Scot-Irish emigrant from Ulster, Ireland, first
   settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in early 1700. He later
   moved to Iredell County, NC. He and his descendants were participants
   in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812 and Civil War. Most of
   Alexander's sons moved to Georgia where they became politically
   involved in the early development of that state. A great grandson of
   Alexander, Asa Reid, left Georgia, settled first in Alabama, and by
   1840 was in Arkansas where his great grandson, Alonzo Cratin Reid was
   born 25 February 1883.
   
   Alonzo was the son of William C. and Martha Jane (Brock) Reid. After
   the death of his father Lon moved to Texas with his mother and
   step-father. By his early teens he was making his own way in Carter
   County, OK. It was there he met Pearl Freeman, daughter of Alfred H.
   and Nancy Thompson Freeman. Lon and Pearl were married in Berwyn (now
   Gene Autry), OK, on 8 Aug 1909. Their early married years were spent
   in Carter and Atoka counties. In 1926 they moved to Jefferson County
   and settled in the Irving community. In 1927 they moved east of
   Waurika on Highway 70, where Lon and Pearl lived until they retired
   and moved into Waruika.
   
   The Reid children were typical of most farm children. They accepted
   hard work, discipline, respect for their elders and schooling as a way
   of growing up. They have fond memories of their friends and school
   days at Irving. They often repeat stories of riding the school bus,
   both the joys and the not-so-joyous events--like the day in the winter
   of 1929-30. An unexpected snow storm came, the school bus became
   stranded and they were forced to walk across a field. They unanimously
   agree the icy weeds and grass on their bare legs was something they
   will remember forever. They also remember watching as the Red River
   flooded and they saw the railroad bridge float off down the river.
   
   Mr. Reid died on 10 September 1966 and Mrs. Reid on 1 November 1984 in
   Waurika, OK. Both are buried in the Waurika Cemetery. They had nine
   children, five of them now living in Waurika: Ona (Mrs. John Floyd);
   Lucille (Mrs. Dallas Moore); Madeline (Mrs. Woodrow Elkins); Lois
   (Mrs. Lloyd Cochenour); Nettie Ruth (Mrs. Hubert Cowan). One daughter,
   Bonnie (Mrs. Dean Frost), lives in Duncan, Stephens County and a son
   Elmer, lives in California. Jewel died in 1978 in California and
   Quentin died March 1998 in Waurika.