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I.  Bill Reed was found in the 1900, 1910, 1920, & 1930 Tate County, Mississippi Census

     According to oral history, Grandpa Bill Reed and several members of his family migrated from South Carolina to Como, Mississippi (Panola County) shortly after the Civil War.  As the family folklore goes, someone came on the Reid farm in South Carolina and told everyone that Mississippi was the "land of milk and honey with fat pigs running around with apples in their mouths".  So some of them followed this person to Como, Mississippi.  Grandpa Bill later moved a couple of miles north into Tate County sometime before 1880.  He purchased several hundred acres of land located approximately 8 miles southeast of Senatobia in a community known as Looxahoma.

     The 1900 Census:

Name Relation Birth Date Age Place of Birth Place of Birth of Father Place of Birth of Mother
 Read, William Head Sept. 1846 53 S. Carolina S. Carolina S. Carolina
 ------  Sarah wife June 1849 50 Mississippi Tennessee Tennessee
 ------  Dock son May 1879 21 Mississippi S. Carolina Mississippi
 ------  Simpson son May 1881 19 Mississippi S. Carolina Mississippi
 ------  John E. daughter Sept. 1882 17 Mississippi S. Carolina Mississippi
 ------  Mary E. daughter Oct. 1884 15 Mississippi S. Carolina Mississippi
 ------  Robert son Dec. 1887 12 Mississippi S. Carolina Mississippi
 ------  Pleasant son Dec. 1889 10 Mississippi S. Carolina Mississippi
 ------  Martha daughter May 1892 8 Mississippi S. Carolina Mississippi

Bill and Sarah Reed's two oldest children, Jimmy Reed and Willie Reed, had married and started a family by 1900.  They were living nearby.  Two more children, Lou Anna Reed and Sarah Reed, had passed away before 1900.  Also, several birth dates recorded for some of the children do not match family records.  Example, my family has that my grandfather, Simpson Reed, was born on February 14, 1881.

The 1910 Census:

Name Relation Sex Color Age Marital Status Birthplace
 Reed, William Head M B 64 M1 South Carolina
 ------  Sarah Wife F B 56 M1 Mississippi
 ------  Marietta Daughter F B 24 S Mississippi
 ------  Pleas Son M B 22 S Mississippi
 ------  Martha Daughter F B 18 S Mississippi
 Partee, Claimus Ward M B 20 S Mississippi

      Note: Claimus Partee was Grandma Sarah's nephew, the son of her brother, Square Partee.

The 1920 Census:

Name Relation Sex Color Age Marital Status Birthplace
 Reed, Bill Head M Mu 71 M South Carolina
 ------  Sarah Wife F Mu 68 M Mississippi
 ------  Simpson Son M Mu 39 S Mississippi

Note: The census-taker wrote down some erroneous information.  Grandpa Bill Reed was around 73 years old.  His color is listed as Mulatto, but I was told that he was a dark brown-skinned man born to a long line of men of African descent (DNA confirmed).  My grandfather, Simpson Reed, was in the house, helping his father on the farm.  He had recently moved back to Tate County after spending several years in Crenshaw, MS and several years working in Memphis, TN.

The 1930 Census:

Name Relation Sex Race Age Marital Status Birthplace
 Reed, Bill Head M Neg 80 M South Carolina
 ------  Dora Wife F Neg 63 M Mississippi

Note: Grandpa Bill Reed married Dora Webber in 1928.  His first wife, Grandma Sarah, died unexpectedly in 1923 while visiting her daughter, John Ella, in Memphis, Tennessee.

 
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