William Henry “Billy” ReedAge: 61 years1863–1924
- Name
- William Henry “Billy” Reed
- Given names
- William Henry
- Surname
- Reed
- Nickname
- Billy
- Nickname
- Buck
 Birth | April 14, 1863 24 24 |
 Marriage | Never married |
 Historical Event | American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War |
| Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 3 years)Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867 (Age 3 years)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 5 years)Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 14 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Death of a paternal grandmother | Nancy Shemwell February 22, 1879 (Age 15 years) Note: Newspaper Abstracts of Graves County, Kentucky |
| Death of a father | Henry S Reed July 31, 1887 (Age 24 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 34 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
| Death of a mother | Sarah L Wood January 10, 1913 (Age 49 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 52 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 53 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 54 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
 Death | September 20, 1924 (Age 61 years) |
| Family with parents |
| father |
Henry S Reed Birth: 1839 34 35 — Kentucky, United States Death: July 31, 1887 — Kentucky, United States |
| mother |
Sarah L Wood Birth: November 26, 1838 — Randolph, North Carolina, United States Death: January 10, 1913 — Marshall, Kentucky, United States |
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Marriage: December 2, 1858 — Marshall, Kentucky, United States |
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William Henry “Billy” Reed Birth: April 14, 1863 24 24 — Kentucky, United States Death: September 20, 1924 — Marshall, Kentucky, United States |