Coos County OR Archives News.....PIONEER COOS CITIZEN CELEBRATES 1952
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Coquille Valley Sentinel 1952
Coquille Valley Sentinel
April 10, 1952

PIONEER COOS CITIZEN CELEBRATES
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EIGHTY-THIRD BIRTHDAY RECALLS EARLY DAYS
   OF COLORFUL COOS COUNTY ACTIVITIES

  Colorful days of a growing Coos county were recalled Saturday, April 5, when 
the eighty-third birthday of Steven S. Reed of Myrtle Point was celebrated by 
his friends and relatives.
  The pioneer Coos county citizen was born at Roland Prairie (now Broadbent) 
on April 5, 1869. During his childhood and early youth the area was a 
wilderness of virgin trees of luxuriant foliage.
  During the afternoon party, Mr. Reed who is hale and hearty and quick 
recounted tales of his experience in his mail carrying days under Dan Giles. 
His run was from Myrtle Point to Denmark and Eckley where gold mining was 
going full blast by the Salmon Mountain Mining company.
  He carried his mail on horseback over the mountains and on trails during 
wet, cold and snowy weather.
  Related during the party by the hale octogenarian was the horse racing of 
the early pioneer Coos county fair at Arago.
  The Reed family farm has been in the family for eighty-one of S.S. Reed's 
eighty-three years, having been purchased by his father and now owned by a 
nephew, Eugene Reed.
  In 1891 Mr. Reed was married to Miss Anna McCracken and four children were 
born to them.
  One, Anna, died in 1951; a son, Alvin, lives in Myrtle Point, and a 
daughter, Mrs. Ella Hogan, lives in Eugene.
  During his birthday Mr. Reed spent the day with his daughter and a cousin, 
Mrs. O.C. Brown of Roseburg. Mrs. Brown is a daughter of William G. Hill who 
had one of the first contracts for carrying mail from Roseburg to Empire over 
the Coos Bay Wagon road.
  Relatives and friends visiting Mr. Reed during the day were Mr. and Mrs. 
Alvin Reed, Mr. and Mrs. A.A. Schreifer, Mr. and Mrs.Phil From, Mrs. Robert 
King, Mrs. Minnie Hermann, and Mrs. O.C. Brown and Mrs. Ella Hogan.






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