Anna Tedrow-Reeder-Brown (Hoskins)

Anna Hoskins and Thomas Reeder married on 4 May 1842 in Pike Co., MO. She obtained a divorce in March 1857 in Pike Co., IL. On 2 Apr. 1857 in Pike Co., IL, Anna married to Larason Tedrow who died during the Civil War. Later she married to John Brown (burial place unknown).

Mrs. Anna Brown d 29 Feb. 1916 of La Grippe, 7 P.M.; b 1 Jul. 1828; age 87 yr 5 m 25 da; housewife; father: Isaac Hoskins, b NC; mother: Hannah Bradshaw b NC informant: Demer Reeder (son) burial: Shaw Cemetery 3 Mar. 1916; N. L. Eddy Undertaker, Pittsfield Mary Henry Aiton, M.D., Summer Hill, IL attended her 25 Feb. to 29 Feb. 1916 (Pike Co., IL Death Record in the courthouse) Note: May be error in copying because birth calculates as 4 Jul. "Demer" was the nickname of Anna Brown's son, Aaron James Reeder/ James Aaron Reeder.

Mrs. Anna Brown, who was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Hoskins and born near New Hartford, July 4, 1828, died at the home of her son, James Reeder, residing southwest of town at 7 o'clock last evening after a short illness of grippe. Besides the son mentioned, Mrs. Brown leaves a son, John Reeder of Hadley, and another son at Hutchinson, Kan. and a son and daughter at Louisiana, Mo. Interment will be made Friday afternoon at the Shinn cemetery, services at the grave. Mrs. Brown had been married four times and was one of the best-known pioneers of the New Hartford neighborhood. (Pike County Democrat, Wednesday, March 1, 1916, Pittsfield, IL; Vol LVII Number 49 Pg 5) Note: The copy of the obituary in the last half was difficult to read. Question whether Anna married four times.

The obituary indicates where burial of Anna Brown would take place (in Shinn Cemetery). The Pike Co., IL Death Record (informant was her son) records that Anna Brown was buried on 3 Mar. 1916 in Shaw Cemetery. A memorial stone reading: "In Memory of Anna Brown - Charlotte Reeder - James A. Reeder" is located in Prairie Mound Cemetery, New Hartford, Pike Co., IL. A family member clarified that the stone in Prairie Mount Cemetery was only a memorial stone for Anna Brown and stated that Anna was buried in Shinn Cemetery.

The Pike County IL GenWeb Project, Atlas Twp., lists as Anna Brown as buried in Shinn Cemetery. "Anna Brown, Died 29 Feb. 1916 - Notes: Notation in cemetery book: 87 yrs - Suttler's records." This web site also lists as buried in Shinn Cemetery seven Hoskins (Anna was a Hoskins). Also buried there are Larason Tedrow (Anna's second husband); Rebecca (Reeder) Tedrow (Anna's daughter); Burris Westlake Tedrow (Ann's son-in-law); and Ella Reeder d 1865 (Anna's granddaughter). All of them excepting one Hoskins and her daughter died before Anna. Further, Anna had resided in Atlas Co. The odds are that Anna (Hoskins) Reeder is buried in Shinn Cemetery.

Evidently Anna's grave is not marked with a headstone.

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