Myrtle Dewilde Reid

1900 - 1974  (74 years)

• Name	Myrtle Dewilde Reid
  Birth	28 May 1900	Pennsylvania, USA
  Gender	Female
  Marriage Bride	20 Apr 1921
  	Witness Role: Principal: [F159] ...of (parents not known) Witness Role: Bride: [I3530] Myrtle Dewilde REID Witness Role: Groom: [I3333] Charles Irwin PARSONS
  Note	Newspaper clipping in the possession of Jean Reid Edwards. Name anddate of paper are cut off. Miss Myrtle Reed and Charles J. Parsons,both of this city, were united in marriage yesterday. They took ahoneymoon trip to Harrisburg. (They were married 20 April 1921.) Copyof funeral home brochure in the possession of Jean Reid Edwards.Myrtle Reed Parsons; Born, May 28, 1900; Died, September 24, 1974;Services, Hastings Funeral Home, Friday, September 27, 1974, 1:30p.m.; Officiating, Rev. John W. Doane; Interment, East Oak GroveCemetery. (I assume this cemetery is in Morgantown, West Virginia.)According to Vivian Doney Reid, Myrtle was like a mother to herbrother, Bill and her sister, Rose. After Elizabeth Kennedy Hunterdied, Myrtle assumed the tasks of rearing the youngest children. Mr.Reid worked as an engineer on the railroad and was gone from home alot. After Myrtle married Charlie, Bill and Rose went to live withthem. She called Bill 'son' and actually thought of him as her son andhe thought of her as a mother. Bill was ten when his mother died. WhenAunt Myrtle and Uncle Charlie lived in Morgantown, West Virginia, Iremember going to visit them. They owned and operated a grocery storeon the first floor of the building and they lived above it on thesecond floor. I remember there was a big porch across the front of thebuilding on the second story.
  Name	Myrtle Dewilde Parsons
  Death	24 Sep 1974	West Virginia, USA
  Person ID	I3530	Hillbillies & Vikings
  Last Modified	5 May 2023

  
  

  Father	Alexander Paige Reid,   b. 6 Jan 1879, Barclay, Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA d. 1956, Punxsutawney, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Kennedy Hunter,   b. 1878, USA d. 8 Oct 1919, Punxsutawney, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 41 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1899  [1]
  Family ID	F1128	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Charles Irwin Parsons,   b. 3 Oct 1896, Pennsylvania, USA d. 30 Apr 1957, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	20 Apr 1921
  	Witness Role: Bride: [I3530] Myrtle Dewilde REID Witness Role: Groom: [I3333] Charles Irwin PARSONS
  Children	1. Parsons + 2. Living + 3. Living
  Family ID	F159	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Mar 2025

  
  

• Reference

  Your Name Here. "Myrtle Dewilde Reid". Our Family History. https://jonandjohn.org/getperson.php?personID=I3530&tree=tree1 (accessed March 14, 2025).