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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
John Reid Cemetery (1999) is described as "Untended, near a lone tree in the open field. It is located on a knoll about 100 yards north of the old Madison Fairgrounds arena, which is situated at the northeast intersection of the EKU bypass and US52/Irvine Road. Access by taking the paved lane past the old stables behind the arena."
Mar 2018—The fairgrounds were relocated several years ago because of highway construction. Part of the former fairgrounds area is now Mann Chrysler Dodge Jeep RAM of Richmond. Some of the remaining area has been bulldozed. Unfortunately, the site of the John Reid Cemetery is now overgrown and covered with demolition debris and trash. No gravestones could be found.
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Author: Peter Edwin Broadbent Jr
John Reid was born on 25 August 1750 in Albemarle County, Virginia, and is believed to be the son of John Reid, who was sheriff of Albemarle County from 1755-1756.
In the early 1770s, the Patriot John Reid married Mary “Polly” Woods, the daughter of Colonel John [Patriot P-324250] and Susannah (Anderson) Woods. They had the following known children:
James was born about 1768 and married 1) Mary “Polly” Reid and 2) Sarah Hooten Robertson.
Thomas was born on 17 April 1770 and married 1) Susan Shelton and 2) Nancy Harris.
John was born on 24 November 1774 and married 1) Anna Miller and 2) Adaline Philips.
William was born about 1779 and married Sarah “Sally” Woods.
Anderson was born on 27 April 1783 and married 1) Charlotte Embry and 2) Barbara Ann Shrite.
Elizabeth was born about 1786 and married William Williams.
In the 1777-1779 period, John signed what is known as the Albemarle County Declaration of Independence. In June of 1777, the Virginia General Assembly required free males over the age of 16 to take an oath before a county justice of the peace, renouncing allegiance to the King and swearing allegiance to the Commonwealth of Virginia as a free and independent state. While these oaths of allegiance for all of Albemarle County have been lost, one Albemarle justice of the peace, George Gilmer, kept a diary in which he recorded the names of those Albemarle County residents who had taken the oath before him.
In the period between 1790 and 1795, John moved his family to Madison County, Kentucky, joining many former Albemarle County, Virginia, residents there. They settled on an Otter Creek farm two miles east of Richmond, Kentucky.
The Patriot died on 29 June 1816 at Otter Creek, and his widow, Polly, died on 19 October 1828. Both were buried on the family farm at Otter Creek.
Sources:
Miller, W.H., History and Genealogy of the Families of Miller, Woods, Harris, etc., Kentucky. Richmond: self-published, 1906, pages 221-223, 229
Woods, Edgar, History of Albemarle County in Virginia, Charlottesville: The Michie Company, 1901, pages 365, 379
Vockery, Kathy, Cemetery Records of Madison County [Kentucky], Volume II, pages 5, 60
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