Yolo County Biographies


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W. F. REID
 
W. F. Reid, a retired farmer residing seven miles southeast of Davisville, Yolo 
County, was born in Garrard County, Kentucky, June 20, 1812, his parents being 
Joseph and Elizabeth (Slavin) Reid, the former a native of Virginia, born in 
1779, a farmer by occupation, and the latter a native of North Carolina.  They 
moved to Adair County, Kentucky, when the subject of this notice was a year and 
a half old, and six and a half years afterward they moved into Tennessee; two 
years subsequently to Franklin County, that State; in 1829 into Alabama; in 1844 
back to Tennessee; in 1853 to Arkansas; and in 1857 to California, landing at 
Sacramento.  He bought a place in Yolo County, which he still owns, containing 
320 acres, seven miles southeast of Davisville.
 
October 6, 1834, Mr. Reid was united in marriage with Elizabeth Shores, a native 
of Tennessee, and a daughter of Levi and Mary Shores, natives of North Carolina. 
 She was born in 1818, and died October 11, 1889, the period of their married 
life being fifty-five years, lacking only twenty-five days.  In their family 
have been sixteen children, three of whom are deceased.  The living are:  Joseph 
B., Alexander H., Eliza A., Mary I., Reuben E., Sarah F., Alfred, William F., 
Jr., John M., Margaret E., James H., Louis L. and Emma; and the deceased are: 
Levi, who died in 1861; Lucie E., who died in 1876; and Hannah W., who died in 
1884.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891