Rosa H. Reed

b. 1880 · Vermont

Born 1880, Vermont

Children include Gladys

Rosa H. Reed was born about 1880 in Vermont. In 1901 she was Miss Rose Reed of Williamstown, the town just north of Brookfield. On Wednesday, 7 August 1901, she married Bert Williams, a Brookfield farmer, at the parsonage of the Rev. R. H. Abercrombie, the Congregational minister at Brookfield.

A baby was born in their house on 8 May 1902. Their daughter Gladys Loella, born about 1902, married Herbert William Knowles in 1920.

She was a year and a half into her marriage when, in December 1903, twelve of the sixteen cows on the farm were found diseased with tuberculosis and were killed. The Williamses kept on. Rose helped run the church's chicken-pie supper for Washington's birthday in 1907, and that summer her aunt and two sons came up from Worcester, Massachusetts. In December 1920 she went to Berlin to take care of Mrs. L. L. Stone, who was ill with double pneumonia.

In April 1950 Rosa, seventy, was keeping house on the Williams farm on the Northfield Road at Brookfield, with Bert, their son-in-law Herbert and two of their grandchildren in the house.

Children

Gladys Loella Williams b. 1902

Sources

1950 United States census, Brookfield, Orange County, Vermont, enumeration district 9-4, lines 1-7, National Archives 1950 census website.

1910 United States census, Brookfield, Orange County (FamilySearch); Vermont marriage record of her daughter Gladys Loella Williams, Brookfield, 9 June 1920; 1950 United States census, Brookfield, Orange County, enumeration district 9-4 (National Archives); Herald and News, West Randolph, Vermont, 8 August 1901, 15 May 1902, 7 February 1907, 25 July 1907; Vermont Watchman, Montpelier, 14 August 1901, 17 December 1903; Barre Daily Times, Barre, Vermont, 7 December 1920 (Chronicling America)

Herald and News, West Randolph, Vermont, 8 August 1901, p. 1, Brookfield column; Vermont Watchman, Montpelier, 14 August 1901, p. 5, Brookfield column (Chronicling America, Library of Congress).

Herald and News, West Randolph, Vermont, 15 May 1902, p. 1, Brookfield column; Vermont Watchman, Montpelier, 14 May 1902, p. 8, Brookfield column (Chronicling America, Library of Congress).

Vermont Watchman, Montpelier, 17 December 1903, p. 4, Brookfield column (Chronicling America, Library of Congress).

Herald and News, West Randolph, Vermont, 3 September 1903, p. 7; 29 September 1904, p. 6; 11 October 1906, p. 1; 7 February 1907, p. 1; 25 July 1907, p. 6; 28 November 1907, p. 7; Barre Daily Times, Barre, Vermont, 9 April 1912, p. 7; 7 December 1920, p. 6; 5 December 1922, p. 6 (Chronicling America, Library of Congress).

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