individual record
id | first | middle | last | dob | dod | cod |
| 160 | Hellen | C. Hunt | Reed | 9/18/1845 | 12/31/1867 | Child birth |
veteran | exhumed | purchaser | cemetery |
| FALSE | Adams Street |
lot | plot | ||||||
| R5 G8 on Hunt family stone, HCR footstone at G10 |
relations |
| L.G. Reed (husband) Jemima A. Butterfield Hunt (mother, 16 Oct 1823-5 Jan 1868) Abner Hunt Jr. (father, 8 Deb 1819-26 Feb 1901) Sarah J. Hunt Hulet (step-sister, b. c1843 or 1844 to Abner and Sarah J. Green Hunt, Abner's first wife, who died 2 July 1842) Hellen C. Hunt Reed (sister, 18 Sep 1845-31 Dec 1867) James Hunt (brother?, b. c1846) Mary A. Hunt (sister, 19 Jan 1847-13 Jan 1873) Caroline C. Hunt Hulet (sister, 2 Oct 1848-8 Oct 1868) Orin G. Hunt (brother, 1852-22 Feb 1904) Abner Hunt, Sr (grandfather, b. c1792) Betsey Hunt (grandmother, b. c1794) William Hunt (uncle) Russell Hunt (uncle) Calvin Hunt (uncle, b. c1834) Norman Hunt (uncle) Victoria Hunt (aunt by marriage to Calvin, b. c1838) Edward Hunt (cousin, b. c1862) Edwin Hunt (cousin, b. c1869) |
comments |
| Hellen was born in 1845 to the family of Abner Hunt, Jr., in Northfield Twp, Summit County. Abner Hunt Sr. emigrated there from MA, was enumerated in the 1820 census, and was still living there in 1860 and 1870, although in 1870 he was living with his son Calvin's family. Hellen was enumerated with her father's family in 1850. Abner Hunt, a farmer born in VA, was 30, with $750 in real estate. Her mother, Jemima, was 25, born in Maine. Sister Sarah J. was 7, Hellen C. was 4, Mary A. was 3, and Caroline was 2. All children born in OH; Sarah and Hellen were attending school. Her family was enumerated again in Northfield in 1860. Abner Hunt Jr was 40 yrs old, a farmer with $7,000 real estate and $1500 personal property, born in OH. Jemima was 36, born in ME. Children were Sarah J (18), Helen (15, born in MI), James (14), Mary (13), Caroline (11), and Orrin (8). All children except Helen were born in OH; all were attending school. Hellen married L. G. Reed in Cuyahoga County (vol. 13, p. 64). The marriage license has L.G. Reed as S.G. Reed. The couple married on 12 July 1866. There are lots of L. Reed deeds, but without knowing his first name, it is difficult to tell which are his. There are none in the name of Hellen or Helen Reed. Berea records Hellen's burial in 1868: "Jan. 2 Hellen Reed -- child birth [age] 22 [yrs] 3m. 128d." Her tombstone was transcribed in 1904: "Reed, Helen G., wife of L. G. Reed, d. Dec. 31, 1867, ae. 22 yrs. 3 mo. 12 da." In 1934 it was transcribed again, as a Hulet stone " Hellen C., wife of L. G Beed, died Dec 31, 1867, age 22 yrs, 3 m, 12 days". Her inscription was located in 2007 on her family monument, legible but worn. The stone is a marble pedestal with urn, covered with dirt and some moss. Hellen's family was enumerated after her death in Berea in 1870; father Abner gave his age as 49, occupation as farmer, worth in real estate as $30,000 and personal property $500, born in OH. His second wife, Philena Holmes, was 34, keeping house, with real estate worth $350, born in NY. Mary, daughter of his first wife, was 24, born in OH. They had one domestic, Minna or Minerva Holmes, possibly related to his wife and/or their neighbor, Henry Holmes. |
sources |
| 1820 US Federal Census, Abner Hunt [Sr] household, Series: M33 Roll: 95 Page: 61 1850 US Federal Census, Abner Hunt household, Series: M432 Roll: 732 Page: 336 1860 US Federal Census, Jemima Hunt household, Series: M653 Roll: 1039 Page: 119; Abner Hunt [Sr] household, Series: M653 Roll: 1039 Page: 121 1870 US Federal Census, Calvin Hunt household, Series: M593 Roll: 1270 Page: 317; Abner Hunt [Jr] household, Series: M593 Roll: 1193 Page: 432 Abner Hunt obituary, The Berea Advertiser, 1 Mar 1901. E. S. Loomis and D. T. Gould, "Inscriptions from the Old Berea Cemetery," 1904, Berea Historical Society "List of Burials and Names 1856-1871," City of Berea Records "Number of burial lots and price," Adams Street Cemetery folder, Berea Historical Society "Cuyahoga Cemetery Inscriptions," Vol. I, compiled by the Western Reserve Historical Society, 1934 Hellen C. Reed tombstone photograph, Jeremy Feador, 2006 |