I first heard about Inez from my paternal grandmother when I was a young girl. She told me that she knew very little about Inez because she had left her husband and eight children and ran off with a traveling salesman when her children were still quite young.
The mystery of my second great grandmother intrigued me and I spent several years researching with my dad to know why she would leave her family with this unidentified traveling salesman. It wasn't until I began college that I found the first treasures that would unlock this mystery and paint a very emotional story of the trials that Inez Irene Reed faced during her life.
I have created this blog to share my research on the life of Inez Irene Reed and her family. I will begin with the end of her life. Below is a photo of her gravestone that was taken by
Carole Marie McMahan and published on the Find a Grave database. After extensive research, I found that Inez had left her husband and married William Dement.
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Gravestone of Inez Irene Reed, despite the misspelling.[1]
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[1] "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKW-KK1L : 17 September 2018), Inez Irene Reed Dement, 1953; Burial, Guernsey, Ohio, United States of America, Buffalo Cemetery; citing record ID 31003494,Find a Grave,http://www.findagrave.com.
