Birth: 15 June 1850 Dorchester, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA
Father: Aaron Reed c1812-a1880
Mother: Achsah (Achoah) Courser [Clark] c1813-a1880
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 1872
Wife: Susan A Foster 1842-1926
Death: 1 April 1917 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
Buried: Highland Cemetery, Rumney, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA
Burton (Bert) Jeremiah Reed 1872-1931
Gracie E Reed c1879-a1880
In the 1850 census as Alpheus Reed aged 0 in the index, 8 months on the original, born in New Hampshire, and living with Aaron and Achsa Reed (parents?), Mary Reed (sister?), William Clark (half-brother?) and Melissa Clark (half-sister?) in Dorchester, Grafton, New Hampshire.
In the 1860 census as Alpheus Reed aged 10, born in New Hampshire, and living with Aaron and Axsah Reed (parents?), and Mary J and Melissa Reed (sisters?) in Dorchester, Grafton, New Hampshire.
In the 1870 census as Alpheus Reed aged 19, born in New Hampshire, a farm laborer, and living with Aaron and Achsah Reed (parents?) in Dorchester, Grafton, New Hampshire.
In the 1880 census as Alpheus Reed aged 29, born in New Hampshire, parents born in New Hampshire, a farmer, and living with his wife (Susan A), son (Berton J) and daughter (Gracie E) in Dorchester, Grafton, New Hampshire.
In the marriage entry for Bert J Reed married on 27 April 1899 in Rumney, Grafton, New Hampshire, his parents are stated to be Alpheus Reed and Susan Foster.
In the 1900 census as Alp*Fus Reed aged 49, born in New Hampshire in June 1850, father born in New Hampshire, mother in Vermont, a farm laborer, married for 28 years, one child still living, and living with his wife (Susan A) in their own house free of mortgage in Rumney, Grafton, New Hampshire.
In the 1910 census as Alpheus Reed aged 58, born in New Hampshire, parents born in New Hampshire, could not read or write, a laborer doing odd jobs working on his own account, married for 37 years, one child still living, and living with his wife (Susan A) in a rented house in Rumney, Grafton, New Hampshire.
Entry in Ancestry Massachusetts, Death Index, 1901-1980 for Alpheus Reed in Boston (1 283) in 1917.
Entry in Ancestry New Hampshire, Death and Burial Records Index, 1654-1949 for Alpheus Reed, parents Aaron Reed and Achsah Clark, died 1 April 1917 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Entry in Ancestry New Hampshire, Death and Disinterment Records, 1754-1947 for Alphons Reed, born on 15 June 1850 in Dorchester, New Hampshire, parents Aaron Reed, a farmer, and Achsah Clark, a farmer, died 1 April 1917 aged 66 years, 9 months, 16 days, in Mass. Gen. Hospital, Boston, Mass, where he had been an inmate for 7 days. He had renal insufficiency, was operated on 27 March 1917, and also a septic jaw. He was resident in Boston for 30 years, previously Dorchester, N.H. He was interred at Highland Cemetery, Rumney, NH on 3 April 1917.
Entry in Find A Grave for Alpheus Reed, born 15 June 1850 in Dorchester, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA, son of Aaron and Achsah (Clark) Reed, wife Susan A Foster Reed (1842 - 1926), son Burton J Reed (1872 - 1931), died on 1 April 1917 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA, buried in Highland Cemetery, Rumney, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA
In the death record of Burton J Reed in 1931 his parents are stated to be Alpheus Reed and Susan Foster.
There are two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Alpheus Reed, one born in June 1850 in Vermont, parents Aaran Reed and Achsah Courser, and the other on 15 June 1850 in Dorchestr, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA, parents Aaron Reed and Achoah Clark, his marriage to Susan A Foster, his son, one adding his daughter, and his death on 1 April 1917 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA and the other in New Hampshire.
Alpheus Reed was the father of Burton J Reed, husband of Clara Melissa Heath, wife of Cornelius Teasdale, husband of Emily Croucher, my grandaunt.
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