Mrs. Ellen Creswell Reed, wife of the late Joel Reed and one of Concord’s oldest and best known women, died suddenly this morning at 6:50 at her home on North Union street. She suffered a stroke of apoplexy about 4 o’clock and failed to rally.
Mrs. Reed weas as well as usual on Tuesday, going for an automobile ride during the afternoon. She had been in declining health for several months however, and but recently had been confined to her home with influenza, which greatly weakened her condition. Announcement of her death came as a distinct shock to her relatives and friends.
Definite funeral plans have not been made but it is probable that the service will be held at the home tomorrow afternoon, with interment in Oakwood cemetery.
Mrs. Reed was 82 years of age, having been born February 23, 1844. She was a daughter of the late David and Catherine Nance Creswell of Iredell county and was born and reared at Creswell Springs in the Center Church community. Early in life she joined the Prospect Presbyterian Church, where here membership remained until after her marriage when it was transferred to the First Presbyterian Church of this city. She is the last member of her immediate family.
Mrs. Reed was married on December 27, 1865, and moved to Concord immediately afterward. She began keeping house in the Reed home several weeks after her marriage and had lived in the same house for 60 years. Mr. Reed died in March, 1900, and one son, Joel Reed, died in 1918.
Surviving are the following children: Mrs. Kate C. Archey, Richrd Reed, Dr. J.F. Reed, Junkin E. Reed, all of Concord, and Mrs. E.J. Buchanan of Lexington.
From the front page 5 of The Concord Daily Tribune, May 5, 1926.
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