REID, SAMUEL H., was born in 1781 near Richmond, Virginia. His parents moved, when he was a young man, to Davidson county, Tenn., near President Jackson's country seat, the Hermitage; and from there to Warren county, Ky. While visiting his brother, Judge Alexander Reid, at Shelbyville, Samuel H. became acquainted with Elizabeth Roberts. They were there married, and lived near Bowling Green, Warren county, until six children were born. Mrs. Reid and three of the children died there. Mr. Reid was married in Warren county to Jane Gott, and moved at once to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in Sept., 1827, and settled on a farm he had previously purchased, three miles west of Springfield, where they had four children. Of his seven children

SAMUEL H. and SARAH twins, born May 20, 1818, in Warren county, Kentucky.

SAMUEL H. married Oct. 20, 1840 in Sangamon county, to Elizabeth Davis. They had three children-SARAH J., born Oct. 27, 1841 married, April 19, 1858 to Thomas L. Conner, who was born Sept. 1, 1832 in Allegheny county, Penn. They had four children, SAMUEL died young. WILLIAM L., MARGARET E. and SARAH J. live with their parents in Springfield, Illinois. DAVID A. died in infancy. ROBERT S., born Oct. 12, 1848 married, Oct. 20, 1869, to Olive M. Cross, who was born Nov. 22, 1850 in Christian county, Illinois. They have one child, SARAH E., and live one and one-half miles west of Springfield. Samuel H. Reid, Jun., and wife now - 1876 - reside three miles west of Springfield, Illinois, on the farm settled by his father in 1827.

SARAH F. married David A. Reid, a distant relative, had one child, and mother and child died, in Lincoln county, Missouri.

DAVID A., born April, 1822, in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county, and died March, 1840, in Lincoln County, Missouri.

By the second marriage

ADALINE born in Sangamon county, married Thomas Reid, had two children, and she died Jan., 1855, in Lincoln county, Missouri.

WILLIAM M., born in Sangamon county died, aged eighteen years, in Lincoln county, Missouri.

LUCINDA died, aged fourteen years, in Lincoln county, Missouri.

JAMES S, born and died in San-anion county, aged four years.

Samuel H. Rend, Sen., was a ruling Elder in the church organized by Rev. John G. Bergen, the first ever organized in Springfield, now the First Presbyterian church. He afterwards became a ruling Elder in the Second Presbyterian church, and continued to the end of his life. He died Sept., 1836, and his widow died sixteen days later, both in Sangamon county.