"APPENDIX XI
ELDAD
REED I: - Born September 16, 1767, Rowan County, NC. Third son of William
Reed III and Jean Reed, his wife. Married Ashea Lanning, daughter of Joseph
Lanning and Maggie Lanning, the 29th day of August 1793. Ashea Lanning
was born May 4th 1766. They lived in Rowan County until 1803, then moved
to what is now Buncombe County, NC, locating on Cane Creek, near the present
site of Fairview, NC. Eldad Reed was a Baptist.
He died in 1837 and is buried beside Ashea Lanning Reed, his wife, in the
old Cane Creek Baptist Church cemetery near Fairview.
APPENDIX XII
JOHN
REED V: - Born November 21, 1802 in Rowan County, NC. Third son of Eldad
Reed and Ashea Lanning Reed. Married, (first) Lavina McBrayer, daughter
of Samuel and Ann Able McBrayer, in 1823. (Samuel McBrayer lived
on Miller Creek, near Cane Creek, until about 1835 when he moved to Hamilton
County, MO, where he and his wife died and are buried. He was the
son of David McBrayer, a Revolutionary Soldier, and came from Franklyn
County, PA to Cleveland County, NC, near Shelby, and is buried two miles
east of Mooresville, in Cleveland County.)
He was one of the founders of the Gashes Creek Baptist Church and helped
to erect the first church at that place, which was built of logs.
John Reed and Lavina McBrayer Reed had six children. John Reed married
(second) Eliza Creasman. No children born of this union. He
died in 1886 at the age of 84 years, and is buried at the old Berea Baptist
Church cemetery, Buncombe County, NC.
APPENDIX XIV
JOSEPH REED III:
- Born May 7, 1827, on Cane Creek, Buncombe County, NC. Second son
of John Reed and Lavina McBrayer Reed. He married Katherene [sic] Miller,
daughter of David and Rachel Harrison (Snelson) Miller, April 19, 1849.
(Katherene Miller was the daughter of David Miller Jr. and Rachel Harrison
(Snelson) Miller, by their second marriage, both having been married before
and both having had children by their first marriage. David Miller
was a descendent of Thomas Miller who came to NC with the expedition sent
out by the Lord Proprietors of England and was Governor of Albemarle 1677
under the reign of Charles II, and Rachel Harrison Miller was a daughter
of Rev. Joseph Harrison, a descendant of one of the first families of Virginia,
Benjamine Harrison, who came to Virginia in 1638, from England and kinsman
of Col. William Henry Harrison.)....
Joseph Reed was born in the home established by his grandparents, Eldad
Reed and Ashea Lanning Reed, 10 miles east of Asheville, on Cane Creek.
When he married Katherene Miller they settled in the home of his parents,
John and Lavina McBrayer Reed, on Gashes Creek, and it was there their
seven children were born.
When the Civil War was declared in 1861, Joseph Reed was commissioned a
Captain in the CSA, and stationed at the "Armory of the Confederacy" at
Asheville, NC. His Commission was given by George W. Randolph, Secretary
of War, Richmond, VA, Nov 10, 1861. He saw active service when Sherman's
Army passed through the Carolinas on its march to the sea, and in quelling
raiders who followed in the wake of the army.
Joseph Reed added many acres to his Gashes Creek homeplace, purchased Bushbee
Mountain, and in 1870 purchased a twelve hundred and sixty acre plantation
two miles south of Asheville, on a small portion of which is now located
the towns of Biltmore and South Biltmore. Upon this land he built
ponds, erected saw mills, carding mills and grist mills, and built a new
home where the old "Tommy Foster" home had been located. He was the
first man in Western North Carolina to house and sell ice, owned the first
brick yard and the first meat market in Asheville. Gave the right-of-way
to both the Western North Carolina Railroad and the Asheville and Spartanburg
Railroad. (Both now owned by Southern Railroad.) He built a
brick station at Biltmore and presented it to the Railroads and also built
a brick store and hotel at the junction of the two railroads. In
1883 he purchased a large tract of land on the north bank of the Swannoa[sic]
River. (Present site of the Asheville Municipal Golf Course.)
He was one of the founders and builders of the Gashes Creek Baptist Church.
Royal Arch Mason. A phil- anthropist, a man of great sterling worth
who lived years ahead of his age. One of "Nature's Noblemen."
He died August 22, 1884 and is buried at Gashes Creek Cemetery.
APPENDIX XXIII
HARRIET KATHERINE
REED: - Seventh child and second daughter of Joseph and Katherine
Miller Reed was born July 8th, 1869. Educated at Newton Academy, Asheville
Female College and Judson College, Hendersonville, N.C. Married Chas.
R. Whitaker of Atlanta, Ga., son of Dr. A.S. and Louiza Dean Whitaker,
April 5, 1887. To this union was born one child:
(a) Louise Reed Whitaker, born August 1, 1894. She married
Ernest V. Perkinson, November 5, 1917.
Harriet Reed Whitaker was a leader in her community in religious, patriotic,
civic and fraternal organizations. Charter member Biltmore Baptist
Church. Organist fifteen years; Sunday School teacher, organizer
of Baraca and Philathea classes in church at Biltmore and First Baptist
Church in Hendersonville, where she lived later. A member Asheville
Chapter U.D.C., Edward Buncombe Chapter D.A.R., Regent Princess Hirrihigua
Chapter D.A.R., St. Petersburg, Florida. Represented this chapter
four years at National Congress D.A.R. at Washington. Member D.A.R.
House Committee in Congress 1924. Was chairman of State D.A.R. Educational
Committee of Florida 1920-1924.............."
Gashes
Creek Cemetery Inscriptions
Harriet Reed
Whitaker
w/o Charles R.
Whitaker
d/o Joseph &
Catherine Miller Reed
b. July 8, 1869
d. Apr. 17, 1967
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Charles R.
Whitaker
s/o Dr. A.S.
& Louisa Dean
b. Oct. 11, 1861
d. Feb. 20, 1948
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--Aslund
& Ledbetter's "Cemetery Inscriptions" vol 2: p. 29,
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