FRANK ALLEN REED

 

 

     Frank Allen Reed, b January 17, 1892, d December 7, 1974 and buried in Hillcrest Cemetery in Marlin, Texas - was a son of Richard Allen Thomas and Sarah Minerva ("Minnie" McClanahan) Reed. Frank Allen married first to Mable Whaley, b December 20, 1892, d December 7, 1946 and buried in McClanahan Cemetery - a daughter of Waller Dea Whaley, who was buried in the Eutaw Cemetery in Limestone County, Texas; and his wife, Lucy (Tacker) Whaley, who was buried in Port Arthur, Texas. A brother of Mable - Waller Dea Whaley - is also buried in the McClanahan Cemetery. Frank Allen and Mable (Whaley) Reed had two children:

     Lucy Ara Reed, b September 30, 1910 - married in 1929 in Port Arthur, Texas to Eli Hebert and had Virginia Jo Hebert who married Burl Eastup (now deceased), had Beverly Jo Eastup, Susan Ann Eastup, and Betty Ann Eastup. Lucy Ara married second to William Cubbage, and had Sandra Lea Cubbage, b July 16, 1939, who lives in Houston, Texas, married Michael Wayne Meyer, and had Michael Wayne Meyer, Jr.; and Melanie Ann Meyer. Lucy Ara married third on September 3, 1945 in Reno, Nevada to Michael Ferda, Jr., b October 5, 1918 in West Virginia, and had Michael Ferda, III, b July 27,1949 in Marlin who married Alice Faye McBee - a daughter of Joe and Doris (Westerman) McBee, and they have two sons: Michael Ferda, IV, b August 17, 1976, and Colt Carson Ferda, b August 26, 1983. Michael and Ara (Reed) Ferda, Jr. reside in Marlin, Texas in the addition named for her great grandfather, Thomas Dudley Reed.

     Clelle Garner Reed (called "Bill"), b November 1, 1914, d February 5, 1937 and buried in McClanahan Cemetery.

     Frank Allen Reed married second to Lydia Lea Stahl - a daughter of an Arkansas dentist who had relocated in Yoakum, Texas: Dr. S. S. Stahl and wife, Nellie Geraldine (McGowan) Stahl, and they had four children.

     Barbara Lea Reed, b January 19, 1926 in Marlin, Texas - married August 6, 1947 to WIllis Garrett Dunkum, Jr., b September 2,1924 in Marlin-a son of Willis Garrett and Edith Elwood (Roberts) Dunkum, and had four children.

     Frank Allen Reed, Jr., b July 17,1928 in Marlin - married Laura Nelle Carpenter, who had two children by a former marriage, and they had two children: Frank Allen Reed, III; and Frances Reed. Frank resides in Marlin, where he is an accountant.

     Richard Neal Reed, b October 7, 1930 in Marlin - has farmed and been a rancher in Falls County. He served in the military during the Korean War, and has never married. He resides in Marlin with his widowed mother.

     Minnell Reed, b October 7, 1935 in Marlin - married August 6, 1955 in Marlin, Falls County, Texas to Robert Lee Henry of Daggett, California, and had one daughter, Diane Henry. Minnell married second to Roy Flournoy, and they now reside in Austin, Texas.

     Frank Allen Reed served as one of the directors of the Marlin National Bank, and engaged in banking, farming, and ranching in Falls County, Texas. He has many descendants still residing in Marlin, Texas.

 

 

 

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"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Commission, page 376 column 1 and 2.  
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