Families of Letitia Scott Reid

LETITIA SCOTT REID, daughter of ANN ELIZABETH GREGSON and ROBERT MORISSON REID, was born January 26, 1879 in Monterey County, California,^{250, 13} and died March 23, 1973 in San Mateo County, California.²⁵⁰ She is buried in Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, Santa Clara, California.^{1209, 1220}

She married (1) FRANCIS HENRY KEAN on May 7, 1904 in San Jose, Santa Clara, California.¹¹⁶⁴ He was born in Michigan.

She married (2) ? OAKES between 1921 and 1932.

• Descendant Reports
  • William Scott Descendant Report (Ancestor of Letitia S. Reid)

Children of LETITIA SCOTT REID and FRANCIS HENRY KEAN:

1. THELMA ANN REID KEAN, b. August 2, 1905, San Jose, Santa Clara, California;⁶³³⁰ d. November 14, 1990.⁵⁶

Newspaper Articles

San Jose Mercury, March 17, 1900¹¹⁵⁵

A pleasant surprise party was tendered Miss Minnie Tupper at her home at the corner of Illinois and San Salvador streets last Saturday evening. The evening was delightfully spent with games, music and conversation. Refreshments were also served.

Those present were Misses Letitia and Bertha Reid, Blanche and Alice Hayes, Bernice and Pearl Smith, Alma, Daisy and Myra Lee, Estelle Stepehns, Loretta Hainer, Marguerite and Minnie Tupper, Messrs. Louis Austin of Campbell, Daniel Ingram of Evergreen, Henry Craft of Los Gatos, T. L. and E. Ingram of Angews, R. W. Tupper of Sonora, Victor Challens, George Kidder, Robert Reid, J. H. Donnelly, Fred Toley and F. Shepard.

Evening News, June 7, 1915¹²³³

Mrs. Anna Reid and daughter, Mrs. Letitia Kean and Miss Lea Reid of Berkeley were recent guests at the Rinn home in this city.

San Mateo Times, April 18, 1959⁶⁵⁰⁸

Daughters of Pioneers Elect Redwood Doctor President

REDWOOD CITY—Dr. Letitia Oakes of Edgewood road, Redwood City, is the new president of the Daughters of California Pioneers. She will be installed May 4 in San Francisco.

Dr. Oakes is the daughter of Ann Gregson Reed, the first white child of American parents, born in California, and whose parents, the james Gregsons, were residents of Fort Sutter. James Gregson was a blacksmth built the mill at Coloma, and was with James Marshall when he discovered gold in the mill-race there.

Obituaries

San Jose Mercury, March 27, 1973¹²⁰⁹

Final Rites Today For Mrs. Oakes

Funeral rites will be conducted today for Mrs. Letitia Reid Oakes, 94, whose grandparents came overland to California with the Grigs-by-Ide party in 1845.

She died Friday in a Redwood City hospital.

Mrs. Oakes was born in Monterey County, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reid, members of pioneer California families.

Mrs. Oakes lived at 1203 Edgewood Rd., Redwood City.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. in Oak Hill Mortuary's Chapel of Roses. Interment will be in Oak Hill Memorial Park.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
June 10, 18801147	Monterey County, California	Robert Morisson Reid Ann Elizabeth Gregson Frank Sutter Reid Daniel Webster Reid Mary Ann Reid Hercules Reid Ida Eliza Reid Alice Curry Reid William Scott Reid John Gregson Reid Letitia Scott Reid
June 4, 19001148	San Jose, Santa Clara, California	Ann Elizabeth Gregson Ida Eliza Reid Alice Curry Reid Letitia Scott Reid Bertha Patterson Reid Robert Morrison Reid Lea Jane Reid Olive Frances Reid Samuel Warren Richards Harmon Lester Richards
April 27, 19101133	San Jose, Santa Clara, California	Ann Elizabeth Gregson Francis Henry Kean Letitia Scott Reid Thelma Ann Reid Kean Lea Jane Reid Olive Frances Reid Bertha Patterson Reid Robert Morrison Reid
January 3, 1920758	San Francisco, San Francisco, California	Letitia Scott Reid Thelma Ann Reid Kean Ann Elizabeth Gregson Lea Jane Reid
April 30, 19402548	Township 3, San Mateo, California	Lea Jane Reid Letitia Scott Reid