Teachers & Preachers

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Teachers

Lena Moreta (Robinson) Reed
1894–1987

BIRTH 1 AUGUST 1894 • Cassoday, Butler, Kansas, USA
DEATH 15 JUN 1987 • Sebastopol, Sonoma, California, USA

Great-grandmother (paternal)

Elementary School Teacher, Navelencia, California

Photo: 1958

Peter Hon Reed
1849–1933

BIRTH 26 MAR 1849 • Warsaw, Gallatin, Kentucky, USA
DEATH 26 APR 1933 • Soldier, Jackson County, Kansas, USA

2nd great-grandfather (paternal)

Holds the distinction of being one of the youngest American Civil War (Apr 12, 1861 – Apr 9, 1865) soldiers at 15 years of age.

Joined the 55th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment, Company B, Union Army, Covington, Kentucky in 1864. Served as a sharpshooter and scout in skirmishes in the mountains of Kentucky and Virginia. Trained at Camps Nelson and Dick Robinson in Kentucky.

“History shows that the community furnished boys for both armies and that the sentiment in Kentucky was very much divided between the North and the South.” [Laurence Reed Mulliken, Ancestry and Descendants of Peter Hon Reed and Sarah E. Hon]

He and his wife Sarah Elizabeth Hon had twelve children. Thirty-four grandchildren, and fifteen great-grandchildren. They settled in Nemaha County, Kansas.

Though Peter was not a schoolteacher, per se, he ensured that his children and grandchildren pursued education rigorously and pushed hard that they each attend college. At the time of his death, it was noted that thirty-five family members were either college graduates or attending college. Twenty-five were schoolteachers, fifteen were farmers, two were physicians, three were lawyers, and two were engineers from California to Texas, New Mexico, Missouri, Illinois, and five counties of Kansas — Shawnee, Riley, Nemaha, Butler, and Cherokee.

Photo: 1910

George Workman Reed
1824–1898

3rd great-grandfather (paternal)

BIRTH 10 APR 1824 • Sharpsburg, Bath County, Kentucky, USA
DEATH 15 FEB 1898 • Soldier, Jackson County, Kansas, USA
BURIAL Soldier Cemetery, Soldier, Jackson County, Kansas, USA

Was reared on his parent’s farm in Bath County, Kentucky.

George was well-educated and taught school in Kentucky for several years, and also served as sheriff.

He moved to Kansas with his family in 1887 and settled in Jackson County, Kansas.

He was at the oldest Mason in the vicinity at the time of his death. The Mason Elder preached at the funeral which was held at the Soldier Christian Church.

Virginia Juliana (Seghers) Morrison
1837–1885

BIRTH 3 MAR 1837 • Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA
DEATH 21 FEB 1885 • New Roads, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, USA

2nd great-grandmother (maternal)

“Juliana devoted herself to the cause of education. Fortunate were the girls who had the opportunity of going to Mrs. Morrison’s school, because she was a thorough musician and an accomplished lady in all the branches of study, and besides, both by precept and example, she taught the best of manners.

As her health declined, she had to give up teaching.

Juliana (née Seghers) belonged to one of the oldest and most honorable Creole families of the State (Louisiana). Her death causes a void in the society of this parish which will long be felt.”

[Source: excerpts from Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, Obituary.]

Preachers

Church of the Brethren
Rev. Peter Keithley Hon
1791–1876

BIRTH 10 OCT 1791 • Nicholas County, Kentucky, USA
DEATH 21 MARCH 1876 • Mount Sterling, Montgomery, Kentucky, USA

4th great-grandfather (paternal)

East Union Church of the Brethren, Carlisle, Nicolas County, Kentucky, USA
Founded ca. 1800
Congregation of Dunkards (German Baptists from Rowan County, North Carolina)

The East Union Christian Church is the second-oldest active Christian church in the United States.

The cemetery has soldiers from the Civil War from the North and the South.

Notables buried there include Rev. Peter Keithley Hon (1791–1876). Hon was a well-known evangelist among the Christian churches. In his life he baptized approximately 5,000 people.

Swiss Anabaptist
Rev. Abraham Hostetler
1770–1846

BIRTH 19 DEC 1770 • Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH 01 SEP 1846 • Orange County, Indiana, USA5th great-grandfather

5th great-grandfather (paternal)

Rev. Christian Hochstetler

BIRTH: 13 Feb 1746 Upper Bern Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH :2 Apr 1814 Randolph Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA

6th great-grandfather (paternal)

Jacob Hochstetler, 7th great-grandfather, arrived in the New World in 1738 from Switzerland. He established the First Amish Church in Pennsylvania (and America) in 1740.

Swiss Anabaptist (forerunners to the Amish and Mennonite traditions) and Swiss Mennonites derived from the Anabaptist communities of the Radical Reformation of the 1520s.

“The prospect of starting fresh in the New World was attractive to many Amish and Mennonites as they faced relentless persecution into the early eighteenth century. One area of the New World that held a particular attraction for these groups was Pennsylvania, where William Penn, a Quaker, was encouraging other religious groups to immigrate and take part in his “holy experiment.” A few Mennonites had already come to Pennsylvania by the 1680s, mostly settling in Germantown. The first Amish settlement in Pennsylvania was in Oley Township, Berks County, founded in 1714.

The first significant wave of Amish immigration to North America began in 1737 when the ship Charming Nancy set sail for North America with twenty-one Amish families aboard. While a trans-Atlantic journey could be an extreme hardship at that time and living conditions in colonial Pennsylvania were tough, many Amish also found a bountiful landscape and tolerant authorities in their new home. Positive reports about the potential of the local soils and the friendliness of the people encouraged about 500 adults to emigrate to Pennsylvania before 1770.” [Source: by Jon Guss, Persecution, Division, and Opportunity: The Origins of the Old Order Amish]

Oppressed by king and countrymen, the Amish migrated from Switzerland, Alsace, and southern Germany to North America. In 1730, they scouted for land along the frontier in the forests of Berks County, Pennsylvania. They settled there, and for the next twenty years the settlement grew to one hundred Amish families.

Church of England – Anglican

Rev. Benjamin L. Doggett I
1636-1682

BIRTH 28 OCT 1636 • Ipswich, Suffolk, England
DEATH MAY 1682/3 • St. Mary’s White Chapel Parish, Lancaster County, Virginia, USA

9th great-grandfather (maternal)

Cambridge-educated Anglican clergyman. 1636

Church of England
Curate of a church in the small village of Stoke-by-Clare in west Suffolk.
Schoolmaster and curate, Hadleigh, Suffolk, where he continued as minister until

Emigrated to Virginia in 1669.
Minister of both St. Mary’s Whitechapel and Christ Church parishes.