Throwback Thursday: Back Home Again in Indiana

Left to right:  Florence Geneva Reed, Florence Elizabeth [McKee] Reed, Mary [LeSourd] Reed, William S. LeSourd.

The four people in the photograph are members of my mother's paternal line, the Reed family of Logansport, Indiana.  The photograph was taken sometime in the 1930s, judging by the clothing.  Florence Geneva Reed was mom's aunt.  Florence Elizabeth [McKee] Reed was her grandmother.  Mary [LeSourd] Reed was the wife of mom's uncle, Perry Wilmer Reed, the oldest of the eleven children of Francis Harvey Reed and Florence Elizabeth McKee.  William S. LeSourd was Mary's brother.  When mom's father, Benjamin Franklin Reed, was killed in a railroad accident in 1917, when mom was barely a year old, the Reeds took her and her sister Margaret away from their mother, Ruth [Nave] Reed.  Margaret was adopted by Don Francis Reed and his wife, Grace [McElroy] Reed, and mom was adopted by Perry and Mary Reed.