The present church building, completed in 1897, is now 101 years old. Chapel Hill was originally know(n) as Reed's Chapel. About 1843 Elijah Harrison Reed taught school in a log cabin down the hill in front of the present church. The cabin was also used as a Masonic Lodge and a Methodist Church. After the Civil War (about 1870), a second building was constructed in the general area of the present church. The name was changed from Reed's Chapel to Chapel Hill...
-The Choctaw Plaindealer, Thursday, September 3, 1998, page 10.
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Timeline:
1805 born in Buncombe County, North Carolina
abt 1806 moved to Cocke County, Tennessee
1821 left home
13 Oct 1824 Marriage to Sally Cox in Jefferson County, Tennessee
1827 moved to Roan County, Tennessee
1828 moved to Blount County, Tennessee
1830 Census (is he in Blount County?)
Fall 1833 moved to Cole County, Missouri
1833 Sally died
6 Dec 1835 Marriage to Delila Martin
7 Apr 1837 Delila died
Sep 1837 went to Texas and then to Arkansas
1838 visited Missouri, Arkansas, Memphis, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Copiah Co., MS
28 Jul 1840 Marriage to Sarah Ann Martin in Copiah County, Mississippi
1840 Census
1842 moved to Choctaw County, Mississippi
1845 picked up children in Missouri
1850 Census for Choctaw County, Mississippi
1860 Census for Choctaw County, Mississippi
3 Jun 1866 Wrote the story of his life
1870 Census for Choctaw County, Mississippi
1875 died in Choctaw County, Mississippi
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Descendants:
3- Elijah Reed b-2 Feb 1805 Buncombe County, North Carolina
m(1)-13 Oct 1824 Jefferson County, Tennessee
m(2)-6 Dec 1835 Cole County, Missouri
m(3)-28 Jul 1840 Copiah County, Mississippi
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s- (1)Sally Cox b-
d-1833 Cole County, Missouri
4- child Reed b-abt 1825 Jefferson County, Tennessee
d-(lived 4 months)
4- Malinda Reed b-abt 1827 Roan County, Tennessee
4- Luther Reed b-abt 1829 Blount County, Tennessee
4- Mary Elizabeth Reed b-abt 1831 Blount County, Tennessee
d-(lived 3 months)
4- (daughter) Reed b-(lived one day)
s- (2)Delila Martin b-
d-7 Apr 1837 Cole County, Missouri
4- (son)b- Feb 1837 Cole County, Missouri
s- (3)Sarah Ann Martin b-
4- (died before 1866)
4- (died before 1866)
4- (died before 1866)
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