Genealogy Wylie » William Lowry Reid [PPt DNA 8 Ob] (1859-1931)

Personal data William Lowry Reid [PPt DNA 8 Ob] 

• He was born on May 27, 1859 in Steele Creek, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
• He died on January 16, 1931 in Avon, Fairfield County, South Carolina, he was 71 years old.
• He is buried in New Hope ARP Church Cemetery, Douglass, Fairfield County, South Carolina.
• A child of Samuel Watson Price Reid and Jane Patterson Pressly
• This information was last updated on December 18, 2023.

Household of William Lowry Reid [PPt DNA 8 Ob]

He is married to Mary Jane Burns.

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They got married on June 30, 1908 at Richburg,Chester, South Carolina, he was 49 years old.

Child(ren):

1. William Lowry Reid  1911-1987 
2. Jean Patterson Reid  1913-1998 
3. Frances Burns Reid  1916-1983

Notes about William Lowry Reid [PPt DNA 8 Ob]

!SOURCE: notes of Barbara Strickland.

W.L. Reid, Sr (1859-1931) Biography
William Lowry Reid, Sr. (1859-1931) and Mary Jane Burns (1893-1974)
William Lowry Reid, SR. was the third son of Samuel Watson Reid and Jane Patterson Pressly. He was born 10 May 1859 in Steele Creek Township. He was a bachelor until the age of 49 and worked for many years in charlotte, NC as a merchant in the hardware business.
About five years before he married my grandmother, Mary Jane “Janie” Burns, he bought a farm and moved to Avon. Fairfield County, SC. Janie Burns was teaching school in Chester at the time. She taught school for six years in Fairfield and Chester Counties. Will and Janie were married on 30 Jun 1908 at Union Associate Reformed Presbyterian in Richburg, SC. My grandmother was age 25 and my grandfather 49 at the time of their marriage.
Janie Burns was born 27 Jan 1883, the daughter and first child of John Calvin Burns and Frances “Fanny” Wilson. In the fall of 1898, Janie Burns was one of the first three coeds every to live on the campus and attend Erskine College. She graduated in 1902 with a degree in teaching. Until Wylie home was completed the girls stayed in the apartment of the President and his wife, Dr. and Mrs. F. Y. Pressly. According to the Erskine magazine article written at her retirement, in her college days she enjoyed Saturday afternoon walks to Chickasaw creek and occasional evening dates taking the longer way home from programs in town. She was an active member of the sister society of Eupher and Phio, the Calliopean Literary association.
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William Reid bought the home place in Avon for T. P. Mitchell which consisted of about 475 acres and the Henry place which is nearby in Chester County with consists of about 125 acres. There he farmed, and ran a store by the home place and one oat Woodward, had a saw mill, grist mill, flour mill, and cotton gin. When his youngest child, Frances, was about 5 or 6 years old, he had his first stroke and grew progressively worse over the next 8-9 years of his life. William Lowry Reid is buried at the New Hope A.R.P. Church in Avon, SC.
According to my Aunt Frances, my grandfather was about 6 feet tall, of medium build, and bald in his later years.
Granny kept the store running awhile, but after my grandfather died (16 Jan 1931), she was forced by the Great Depression to leave the home place in 1932 and move to Oconne County, SC . She worked for two years at the Tamassee DAR School as a dietitian. After that she moved to Due West, SC and worked as a dietitian at Erskine College from 1934 to 1954. She was loved and respected by all who knew her and she is remembered by many for her delicious homemade yeast rolls.
In 1954 she retired from Due West and moved to Columbia and lived with her daughter Frances. They later moved to Spartanburg where Janie lived the last five years of her life in Roger Huntington Nursing Home at Greer, SC.
She was an ardent ARP (Associate Reformed Presbyterian) member and enjoyed many summers at the ARP assembly grounds at Bonclarken in Flat Rock, NC. Her grandchildren also attended Bonclarken as either waitress in the dining room (Carol Watson Reid and Barbara Jean Reid) or as campers (Ann Manley Reid and Jean Patterson Lawrence).
Janie Burns saw to it that her grandchildren memorized the Shorter Catechism. She had a brilliant mind in her day and in later years remembered her Latin.
THE CHILDREN OF WILLIAM LOWRY REID AND MARY JANE BURNS ARE:
1. William Lowry Reid (II), my father, born 30 Mar 1911 in Avon, SC. Lowry graduated from Clemson in 1933. He married my mother, Mary Nell Manley, 24 Dec 1933. William Lowry Reid (II) died 16 Oct 1987 in Oak Ridge, TN.
2. Jean Patterson Reid, born 17 Oct 1913 in Avon, SC. Jean graduated from Winthrop College. She married Millard Luther “Mike” Lawrence and they lived in Sumter, SC on a farm outside of town. Until here retirement Jean was chief dietitian for the Sumter County School System. Jean Patterson Reid died 11 Jun 1998 in Sumter, SC.
3. Frances Burns Reid was born 25 Jun 1916in Avon, SC. Frances graduated for Winthrop College in Library Science. As an Army librarian, Frances worked 18 months in Japan and three years in Alaska. In Columbia, SC she worked for the State Library Board. In Spartanburg, she was the extension librarian at the public library. Before retiring she worked as a library consultant for the Raleigh, NC Archives. Frances was a globe trotter having toured Europe, Japan, China, Alaska, and the Eastern Mediterranean as opportunity allowed her to travel. Frances Burns Reid died 11 Dec 1983in Columbia, SC.
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