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Elizabeth C. Joy Larremore Reed

30 Mar 1817 – Jul 1849

Birth30 Mar 1817
DeathJul 1849
Added byGraveseeker73 on 29 Sep 2023
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/260151262

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There is more history on the Joy and Reed families at https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~mytexasroots/genealogy/johnreed.htm Biography "Elizabeth C. Joy is the daughter of George W. Joy and an unidentified mom. She was born in 1817, some say Tennessee, and others say Illinois. She was about eight when her mother died leaving five small children. Her father remarried shortly, and soon there were even more siblings, for a total of about twelve children altogether, including at least one step-sibling. At the time Elizabeth was born, the Louisiana Purchase had been made, and the land obtained by the United States was being split into various territories which would then become other smaller territories and eventually states. Shortly before Elizabeth was born, Illinois Territory ran from the bottom of the present-day state and north to Canada. Across the Mississippi was a huge amount of land that was the Missouri Territory. There was no Texas.[1] My point is that I'm not sure exactly where Elizabeth was born, but her family had at one time, at least, been centered in Tennessee, and spent a great deal of time in Missouri, and then went to Texas. There is a record book[2] that has some very interesting reading, in the beginning of it, regarding church organization, and included the fact the Elizabeth's father had been a ruling elder in a previous congregation, and was elected to be the first one in the church in Neosho, Missouri. Further along in the book, we see several members of the Joy family, as well as Elizabeth's future husband and sibling-in-laws, some of whom her own siblings would marry. John Reed, the patriarch of that family was elected as the other ruling elder at the first or second meeting of the church in May 1837. Later still, we see almost the entire Joy family, along with maybe halfa dozen members of the Reed family listed as Removals. Elizabeth married for her first husband Shelton Larremore. He was a private in Co C 1 in the Arkansas Mounted Gunmen called out for the protection of the Sabine Frontier under the authority of General Gaines.[3] The Sabine Expedition was an expedition approved by the United States Congress in 1806. It was led by Major General Edmund Pendleton Gaines. It consisted of volunteers provided by Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee, including militia from Fayetteville in Lincoln County or Athens, and, apparently Arkansas. This may explain how Elizabeth and Shelton met, and why he ultimately died in Ft. Smith, Arkansas in 1840. They were reportedly married on 30 Aug 1838. When processing the data culled from the 1840 census for her father George W. Joy, it was supposed that she was living in his household as the "female" between 20 and 30. Since there was no unaccounted for small child in the household, it would appear that none had been born to her during the brief marriage. However, it is possible that one was born shortly after the census was completed. In 1844, several members of the Joy family are recorded as having removed from the Presbyterian Church community in Neoshu, Newton, Missouri as recorded in the Presbyterian Church records.[2] This link takes the reader to a left hand page on which is recorded the death of Elizabeth's brother Chesley in 1843, but on the opposite page (Image 101) in this ledger are listed Removals. Among them, we find: Martha Joy, Elizabeth C. Joy and George Joy, as well as Joseph Reed and William D. Reed (Elizabeth's second husband) all removed in 1844 and William Cheser and Mary Ann Cheser, who removed in1846. Elizabeth reportedly married William Daken Reed in 1841. Relationship to Joseph Reed is yet unknown. Brother-in-law? Very likely. William's father John had died in 1840 in Neoshu, Newton, Missouri. According to information presented in the Hagen Family Tree,[4] William did, indeed, have a brother born 1820 who died in Texas in 1846. In addition, the same tree reports that William and Elizabeth had three children: Benjamin Franklin Reed, 1842-1917 Mary Ross (Reed) Conway, 1845-1917 Sarah Scinthia A. Reed, 1847-1882 Elizabeth died of lung fever in Jul 1849, in Williams, Williamson, Texas. She was in a Federal Mortality Schedule in 1850-1885.[5], and William remarried in 1854. In the 1850 census[6] William, who went by "Dake", lived in Williamson, Texas with three small children as well as Mary Trent, aged 17, relationship or role unknown, Nancy J. Miller, relationship or role unknown, and Mary Reed, aged 56, most likely Dake's mother. This, together with a note left on Dake's FindAGrave Memorial that, according to family tradition, Elizabeth died shortly after Sarah's birth, limit Elizabeth's year of death to 1847-1850. Since Sarah was two in the 1850 census, her birthday would be needed to narrow the window even more. Another interesting fact that is reflected on that tree is that William's sister, Mary Ann Reed, married Elizabeth's step-brother, William Lewis Chesser. In studying this family, and especially Elizabeth, birth and death locations are a bit confusing. It should be remembered that the Missouri Territory at one time encompassed nearly the whole of the Louisiana Purchase, and that it became smaller and smaller as different territories and states were carved out. The distance between certain locations in Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas, therefore, are smaller than one might imagine, based on present-day boundaries. It is not within the scope of this article to lay out the entire geopolitical landscape, but it is good reading, even in snippets from Wikipedia, and what was going on in that time and those places defines this family as true pioneers." From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Joy-2668

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