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Margret Wilson Backenstoe Reed (Keyes)

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Birthplace: Union, Monroe County, WV, United States
Death: August 25, 1861 (47)
San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Humphrey Keyes; Humphrey Keyes and Sarah Keyes
Wife of Lloyd Carter Backenstoe and James Frazier Reed
Mother of Virginia Elizabeth Murphy; Martha Jane "Patty" Lewis (Reed); James Frazier Reed, Jr.; Thomas Keyes Reed; Gershon Francis Reed and 1 other
Sister of Gershom Keyes; Alexander Keyes; Robert Keyes; Elizabeth Keyes and James Keyes
Half sister of Isaac Keyes; Lucretia Fawcett; Joseph Keyes; Thomas Keyes and Phoebe Clarke

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About Margret Wilson Backenstoe Reed

Survived, the Reeds were one of only two families to survive without loss.

Of the 83 members of the Donner Party who were trapped in the mountains, only 45 survived to reach California.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_F._Reed

He married Margret Keyes Backenstoe, a widow with a baby daughter, in 1835. The couple had four more children in Springfield: Martha Jane (called Patty), James F. Reed, Jr., Thomas Keyes, and Gershom Francis, who died as an infant. Reed never formally adopted Margret Reed's eldest daughter, Virginia Elizabeth Backenstoe, but she went by the name Virginia Reed.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party


Margret Wilson Keyes Reed
BIRTH
31 Mar 1814
Union, Monroe County, West Virginia, USA
DEATH
25 Nov 1861 (aged 47)
San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, USA
BURIAL
Oak Hill Memorial Park
San Jose, Santa Clara County, California

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10951090/margret-wilson-reed

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Margret Wilson Backenstoe Reed's Timeline

1814
March 31, 1814
Union, Monroe County, WV, United States
1833
June 28, 1833
Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, United States
1838
1838
Sangamon Co., IL
1841
March 26, 1841
Sangamon Co., IL
1843
April 2, 1843
Sangamon County, Illinois, United States
1844
December 29, 1844
1848
1848
1861
August 25, 1861
Age 47
San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, United States