Location: S-Monroe

Born: December 31, 1875 Thomasvile, Clarke County, Alabama

Died: April 18, 1955 Waco, McLennan County, Texas

Son of William B. Reid and Mary Elizabeth Harrison Reid

Husband of Allie Mae Brock Reid

Parents:
William B Reid (1850 – 1915)
Mary Elizabeth Harrison Reid (1858 – 1913)

Spouse:
Allie Mae Brock Reid (1886 – 1980)

Children:
Clarence Adolph Reid (1906 – 1984)
Ruby Lee Reid Garrett (1908 – 1935)
Louise Reid Nolley (1911 – 2001)
James Bill Reid (1916 – 1992)
Virgil George Reid (1919 – 2008)
William Texas Reid (1920 – 1983)
Dorothy Marion Reid (1929 – 1933)

William H. Reid, age 79, died at 3:30 a.m.  Monday at his residence, 1805 McFerrin Avenue.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Compton’s Chapel, Rev. Kelly Simmons will officiate and burial will be in China Spring Cemetery.

Survivors:  his wife, one daughter, Mrs. W. C. Hewitt of Tyler, four sons, William T. Reid, Virgil G. Reid, Jim B. Raid, Clarence A. (Dusty) Reid, all of Waco; 3 sisters; Mrs. J. F. Compton of Gallion, Ala; Mrs. Bell Cassity of Thomasville, Ala; Mrs. Ella Ethridge of Putman, Ala; 10 grandchildren.

Active pallbearers: Bill Ditto, A. B. Burton, H. J. Gillett, H. N. Fields, Clyde Martin, Puddy Klatt.

Mr. Reid was born in Thomasville, Ala.  He moved to China Spring in 1900.  Mr. Reid was a prominent farmer until 1940 when he retired and  moved to Waco.