Recalling the past with Mrs. Charlie Wiley Reed
Mrs. Rowella Hydrick Robinson Friday Reed
Notes by
Norman E. Reed (dates unknown)
As told to
Norman E. Reed by his mother Mrs. C. W. Reed (Mrs. Charlie Wiley Reed)
Mrs. Rowella Hydrick Robinson Friday Reed
Her father, Major Hydrick was going to get married for the
second time and she said two women couldn’t live in the same house. He cut he
of (sp) some of his best land for her to build her house. There was a small
house on it but she wanted to build a bigger one. She said she would go there
and live with her two sons. Elliott Robinson and Edward Friday were the
children.
Major Hydrick had an overseer whose name was George Byron
Reed. He had become attached to the two little children, they would call him
Reedy.
Reedy and Rowella were married and that’s the farm that
Byron and Charlie, and all the Reed brothers were born and raised.
There were ten boys and a daughter reared on that two
hundred twenty-five acre farm.
Mrs. Reed is buried at Bull Swamp Baptist Church out from
the town of North, S. C. This is east of the town toward the city of
Orangeburg.
Sent by N.E. Reed’s son, Don Reed to Tom Reed 12-2021.
Retyped into Word.
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