The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-02-09
OBITUARY OF GRANDMA REED
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Mrs Delah Caroline Wertx Reed died Monday morning.
Feb the home of her Frank s. Reed in Cul
berson the of 30 months and days Of heart
failure old ages tired heart strong enough
the send the blood her exremites and gradual
dissolution took place. until finally beat forever
Mrs Reed was born in Troy, Ohio Aug asth 1891, and
her early life spent farm her parents In her
teens she moved to Dayton Ohio, and became mllner
which occupation followed for years. until her
marriage Henry Clay Reed in Chicago June 9TH, 1886
Soon after her marriage Mrs Reed moved with her hus-
band to Oranto Mitchell County Iowa. pioneers
country that then a trackess prairie There young
people made home and there the older children, VIM.
H Reed and Frank Reed In 1862. the
Of the New Ulm Indian Massacre, the home Otrano
abandoned and the family moved in covered wagon, and
with team of four Decorah, Iowa. where
start made
In Decorah the family lived many years and
children born to Mrs. Reed, VIZ, Lydia L.
Mrs George H. Eastwood of Watertown S. D., Luella
Douglass Reed of Point Iona, Calf Henry Clay Reed,
deceased
Mrs Reed left widow Dec 1863 with FIVE children
the Oldest WILL being old and the Youngest being
born about three months after the death husband
Mrs Reed with the strong will and the has
always been her assumed the burden OF the
support OF herself and children. She kept family togeh
and them all good school educacn and
they each helped support Of the family until
each Of the three oldest married The youngest children
never married.
In 1855 Mrs Reed and her youngest children moved
to ST. Paul, MINI where Luela D. Reed secured position
with West Publishing Company editorial department.
hrst reader and advancing rapidly the foreman
ship Of her department Here Grandma Reed spent
ber OF pleasant making home tor her
children Wm H. and Frank s. had homes in the city
and with their homes and seeing her grand
dren her life had OF pleasure and less of toll
and hardship than before In ST. Paul Mrs Reed en-
tered the ST; Josephs Hospital she trained
nurse and has practced that profession less since
that time
Grandma Reed all been a temperance worker
and believer in equal suffrage She took up the work for
temperance and reform Decorah after coming to ST.
Paul, where she had time devote things
became more active in the work. She became
member of the Womens Christian Temperance Union there
and when the Francis Willard Union organized ST.
Anthonys Hill in ST Paul. she elected its president
honor which she held for a number of years.
During this time Mrs. Reed elected a delegate
to the National Convention OF the W. c. T. u
know and her friends many noble
reputation among whom Francis Willard, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton Susan b. Anthony, Ms Others
She also delegate the National Equal Suffrage
venton held in Minneapolis 1885, and D-s Mones
Iowa, in 1894
In IS92, Mrs Reed and other leaders temperance
movement went before the State Legislature Minnesota
and worked for passage Of closing pool rooms
where betting made horse Through
pendture OF money gambling element
OF the state defeated the that session but
later these dauntIes renewed the attack
succeeded IN getting their bill passed. rddng the
of menace and source OF evil
Grandma Reed always proud OF her work before this
legislative body she only among the women
that was invited in the House and asked explain the bill
before the while others
also appeared before the judicial which
was referred The of this reform bill marked
climax of her work in that line
In April Grandma Reed Culber,son, Mon
tana with her Frank Reed who through the
tudes OF fortune had become single man, and these
took claims side by side Mr.. Reed establishing
newspaper. Since that time Grandma Reed has
honored resident of Culbertson. making her
son Frank with the exception OF short intervals up
time OF her death.
Grandma Reed Of noble impulses a strong
WILL dominating personality and peculiarly
permanent Her children all in if at any
time she thought that needed thing by
another she thought her duty and right take from
and The other 1t has times difficult for