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262. MARY5 REED (Sarah4 Clifford, Charles3, James2, unknown Clifford1); born 14 August 1794; died 6 October 1879 in Adams County, Illinois; on 9 December 1817, she married HUGH BRADY; born 20 December 1796; died 22 February 1874; his parents were John and Eunice (Decker) Brady.1391 Hugh Brady was a fifer in the War of 1812. Both Sarah and Hugh are buried in Ebenezer graveyard, Houston Township, Adams County, Illinois.1392 In 1850, Hugh, Mary and children Dorcas, Mary M., and Hugh (Jr.) were living in Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Hugh was listed as a laborer. In 1860 and 1870, Hugh and Mary were living in Houston Township, Adams County, Illinois where Hugh was farming. Also with the couple in 1860 were their sons Joseph and Hugh; in 1870, their grandson Joseph H. Brady (son of David and Nancy Cane Brady) was living with them.1393
Captain Samuel BradyHugh Brady was related to the legendary Indian scout and frontier ranger, Captain Samuel Brady. They were first cousins once removed, both descending from Hugh Brady (born circa 1709) and Hannah (McCormick) Brady (died 1755). Hugh and Hannah Brady migrated from northern Ireland to North America, probably first to Delaware, in the eighteenth century.13991. Hugh Brady and Hannah McCormick. 2. John Brady, born 1733, died 11 April 1779, married Mary Quigley, born 1735. 3. Samuel Brady, born 1756, married Drusilla Van Swearingen (see below). 3. Hugh Brady, born 27 July 1764, died 15 April 1851, married Sarah Willis. General Hugh Brady was another of John and Mary (Quigley) Brady's 12 children. He entered the army in 1792 and served under General Mad Anthony Wayne. He was commissioned Colonel in 1812 and commanded troops at the Battle of Chippawa (Niagara peninsula, near Niagara Falls), 5 July 1814.1400 In the mid 1830s he was stationed in Michigan, then part of the western frontier of the United States, and was instrumental in establishing Fort Brady in the Sault Sainte Marie area of Michigan.1401 There is a photograph of General Hugh Brady, taken by Mathew Brady (apparently no relation)1402 of Civil War photography fame, that can be viewed online.1403 2. Samuel T. Brady, born circa 1734, died 1811, married Jane Simonton. Samuel T. Brady was also in the Revolutionary War and afterwards a scout along the frontier in western Pennsylvania and Ohio. He settled in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. 2. Hugh Brady, born 1739, married Jane Young, born 1755, died 1829. 3. John Brady, born circa 1770, married Eunice Decker, born 1777. 4. Hugh Brady, married Mary Reed (#262). Like Daniel Boone, John Hinkson and other frontiermen, Captain Samuel Brady operated more outside of than within eighteenth century America society. "Lonely, self-contained, self-reliant, useful to the Republic, such men stalked along the national fringe; intelligent predatory animals, reporting to Philadelphia via their army units anything moving on the frontier."1404 Samuel's father and brother were killed by aboriginals.1405,1406 (For more on the demise of Samuel Brady's parents, see end note #1406.) In his mission as Indian scout and leader of his Rangers, it is difficult to separate fact from fiction in the plethora of legends we have of Samuel Brady. We known that Samuel was in the Revolutionary War1407 (the Pennsylvania 8th Regiment), and that in 1779 Samuel Brady was appointed by General Daniel Brodhead to lead a patrol and spy on the British and their aboriginal allies along the Ohio River in Pennsylvania and Ohio.1408 His escapes from aboriginals, his rescue of settlers in distress, his many brushes with deaths are legion. For example a hamlet, taking its name from a large bend in the Allegheny River (forming part of the border between Armstrong County and Clarion County), Pennsylvania, is called Brady's Bend. There is a Pennsylvania Historical marker in the area,1409 which reads: Named for Capt. Samuel Brady (1756-1795), famed frontier scout and the subject of many legends. Near here in June 1779-in what was then Seneca territory-he led a force seeking to redress the killing of a settler and her four children, and the taking of two children as prisoners. The force surrounded a party of seven Indians-apparently both Seneca and Munsee-killing their leader (a Munsee warrior) and freeing the two children. Samuel Brady is probably best known for his purported jump across the Cuyahoga River in the vicinity of what is now Kent, Ohio. The year was 1780 and Brady was being pursued by Indians. To make his escape he jumped across the river, apparently from a high ridge to a much lower bank on the other side. Today, the site from bank to bank is said to be about 40 feet, but students of Brady argue that the area was widened in 1840 by engineers who were building a canal.1410 If the jump was 20 or 25 feet, it would have been an astonishing feat but something not impossible by a man, who, at age 24, was probably in his prime and had an incentive most athletes do not have, namely jumping for your life. (Only a handful of world-class long jumpers have ever jumped over 28 feet-that is, at this writing in 2003.) The Brady Family Heritage Association web page1411 does not mention the Cuyahoga jump, but does have an account of Samuel Brady jumping across a stream of the Beaver River drainage in southwestern Pennsylvania: … Brady ran towards the creek. He was known by many, if not all of them [the pursuing Indians], and many and deep were the scores to be settled between him and them… . The creek was, for a long distance above and below the point he was approaching, washed in its channel to a great depth … Brady comprehended their object and his only chance of escape, the moment he saw the creek; and by one mighty effort of courage and activity, defeated the one, and effected the other. He sprang across the abyss of waters, and stood, rifle in hand, on the opposite bank, in safety . . One account had Brady returning to the site and measuring the distance of his jump as 23 feet. But this was not the Cuyahoga River at Kent, Ohio. Did Samuel Brady really jump across the Cuyahoga? We will probably never know. But as concluded in The Cuyahoga:1412 "Men need to find it true that Brady made the leap… . Captain Brady did make the leap." Samuel Brady, besides being a cousin of Hugh Brady who married our Mary Reed (#262), had another connection to our Cliffords. Family legend has Elizabeth Stoops, tentatively listed as the wife of John Clifford (#5), and Elizabeth's mother, Jane, being rescued by Samuel Brady in what is present-day Beaver County, Pennsylvania. This from a Gedcom pertaining mainly to Ritzmans, Metzingers, Cubbinsons of Ohio and Pennsylvania, 1702-1995:1413 "… [Elizabeth Stoops] was captured by 'savages' during a raid sometime in the late 1700s from Beaver County PA and taken near Sandusky, OH. She was rescued by a man named Brady, who was made famous by a great leap clearing the Cuyahoga River near Cuyahoga Falls." A similar story of Elizabeth Stoop's capture is also in "Memorial to the pioneer women of the Western Reserve," published 1896 under the auspices of the Women Department of the Cleveland Centennial Commission, edited by Mrs. Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham.1414 That there is substance to this legend about Elizabeth Stoops is also supported by The Brady Family Heritage Association web page:1415
… The provisions and ammunition of the men [Brady's men] were exhausted by the time they had reached the Big Beaver, on their return. Brady shot an otter, but could not eat it. The last load was in his rifle. They arrived at an old encampment, and found plenty of strawberries, which they stopped to appease their hunger with. Having discovered a deer-track, Brady followed it, telling the men he would perhaps get a shot at it. He had gone but a few rods when he saw the deer standing broadside to him. He raised his rifle and attempted to fire, but it flashed in the pan. He sat down, picked the touch-hole, and then started on. After going a short distance the path made a bend, and saw before him a large Indian on horseback, with child before and its mother behind [both on the horse], and a number of warriors marching in the rear. His first impulse was to shoot the Indian on horseback, but as he raised the rifle he observed the child's head to roll with the motion of the horse. It was fast asleep and tied to the Indian. He stepped behind the root of a tree and waited until he could shoot the Indian, without danger to the child or its mother.
Of course the story is embellished, but the substance correlates with the Elizabeth (Stoops) Clifford legend about being captured. 263. CHARLES5 REED (Sarah4 Clifford, Charles3, James2, unknown Clifford1); born 29 September 1796 in the Ligonier area of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; died 2 December 1860 at Reed's Station, White Township, Indiana County; buried in Oakland Cemetery, Indiana County, Pennsylvania; on 8 April 1824, he married KEZIA BOYLE; born 24 May 1 in Pennsylvania; died 31 May 1884 at the home of her daughter Evaline in Augusta, Illinois; buried in Oakland Cemetery, Indiana, Pennsylvania.1416 In 1850 (census page 19) and 1860 (page 399), the family was living in White Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, where Charles was farming.
264. GEORGE5 REED (Sarah4 Clifford, Charles3, James2, unknown Clifford1); born "on the homestead" in 1798; married (first) JANE MCWHERTER; married (second) MARY JANE TAYLOR; born circa 1815. She was enumerated as Mary Ann in the 1850 federal census for Ohio County, Virginia (now West Virginia), and listed as born in Virginia (probably present-day West Virginia).1420 George and wives Jane and Mary Jane are buried in Mason City, Ohio.1421 (There is a Mason, Ohio, located about 10 miles north of Cincinnati.) Interestingly, George Reed and family were enumerated at dwelling 639, family 666, which was next to Joseph Clifford (#240) and family (dwelling 638, family 665) in 1850 in Ohio County, Virginia. George was listed as a laborer. Joseph Clifford and George Reed were first cousins. In 1860, the George Reed family was back in Ligonier Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (census page 573).
265. JAMES5 REED (Sarah4 Clifford, Charles3, James2, unknown Clifford1); born 15 March 1801, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; died 8 January 1870 in Indiana County, Pennsylvania; on 1 January 1828, he married POLLY PIPER; born 1 January 1804; died 5 April 1862. In 1850, James, Polly and family were living in Ligonier Township, Westmoreland County. Eventually, they moved to Ambrose, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, where James Reed was a blacksmith. Both are buried in Mahoning United Presbyterian graveyard, Indiana County. 1423 Polly Piper's father was Robert Piper, who married Polly Reed, a sister of Robert Reed, Jr., who married Sarah Clifford (#55); hence Polly Piper and James Reed were first cousins. Robert Piper and family were enumerated in Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County, in 1800.1424 In 1850, Robert Piper, age 79, apparently a widower, was living with Samuel (born circa 1813) and Martha (born circa 1819) Piper family in Ligonier Township. Westmoreland County, at dwelling and family 387-not far from his daughter Polly (Piper) Reed at dwelling and family 385.
According to Lytle (1909), apparently James and Polly had eight children who died young. There was another James Reed and family enumerated in Ligonier Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1850.1425 This James was born circa 1800; his wife was Sarah [-?-]; born circa 1805; their children were Ester Reed, born 1835; John Reed, born 1837; Ross Reed, born 1839; Mary Reed, born 1843; Joanna Reed, born 1845; and Joseph Reed, born 1847. This James and family in 1850 were enumerated in Ligonier Township at dwelling and family 355; whereas our James Reed and family (all children except Nettie who was not yet born) were at dwelling and family 385. I can not place the James Reed living at household 355. 266. ROBERT5 REED (Sarah4 Clifford, Charles3, James2, unknown Clifford1); born 30 October 1804 in Westmoreland County; died 20 January 1865; buried in Old Beaver Run United Presbyterian graveyard, Rose Township, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, near Bellview; married (first), 11 July 1833, LEAH PEOPLES (a daughter of Samuel Peoples); married (second) MRS. NANCY (MOUNT) MINTEER; born 11 April 1805; died 17 May 1880. Robert was a staunch "old line" abolitionist" and had an underground station near his home at Beaver Run, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.1426 Robert and second wife Nancy were living in Beaver Township, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, where Robert was enumerated as a farmer in 1850 (page 53) and 1860 (page 14).
267. SARAH5 REED (Sarah4 Clifford, Charles3, James2, unknown Clifford1); born 7 November 1806 near Ligonier, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; died 27 May 1873, buried in Glade Run Churchyard (location not known); married, 1835, WILLIAM LYTLE; born 14 April 1806; died 10 November 1883. William Lytle was a son of Robert and Robert's first cousin Catherine (Lytle) Lytle. Robert Lytle's father was William Lytle and William Lytle's brother was Robert Lytle, father of Catherine Lytle. One of Catherine Lytle's sisters was Jane (Lytle) Clifford (see #53).1429 Still confused? See Chart 3: "Some Clifford-Lytle relationships." 
268. MARGARET5 REED (Sarah4 Clifford, Charles3, James2, unknown Clifford1); born 4 November 1807 "at the homestead" in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; died 22 February 1881 in Indiana County, Pennsylvania; she married GAWIN (also Gawan) ADAMS, JR., on 1 February 1831;1430 he was born 22 February 1806 in Pennsylvania; died 3 September 1875 in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Both Margaret and Gawin are buried in Oakland Cemetery in Indiana, Pennsylvania.1431 The family was living in White Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, in 1850 and 1860, where Gawin was farming. In 1880, Margaret was in the household of her son James R. Adams in White Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.1432
269. JOSEPH5 REED (Sarah4 Clifford, Charles3, James2, unknown Clifford1); born circa 1809 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; died in Columbus Ohio; married (first) SUSAN PORCH; married (second) JULIA LILISTON ("a southern lady"). Joseph and Julia and family eventually moved to Stark County, Ohio; he was a tailor. Both are buried in Columbus, Ohio.1434
270. THOMAS5 CLIFFORD REED ("T. C.") (Sarah4 Clifford, Charles3, James2, unknown Clifford1); born 13 or 16 August 1813 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; died 17 October 1878; buried in the Antiochian Village Cemetery, Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County; married (first), 28 April 1840, MIRIAM S. EWING; born 12 May 1822 in North Mahoning Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania; died 2 February 1855; buried in Antiochian Village Cemetery. Thomas Reed married (second), 12 April 1856, JANE CLIFFORD MCELROY; born 23 February 1817; died 10 April 1905; buried in Ligonier (?Ligonier Cemetery), Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Jane Clifford McElroy was a daughter of John and Sarah (Menoher) McElroy (#254); hence Thomas and Jane were first cousins, once removed.1436 In 1850, Thomas, Miriam and first five children were living in Ligonier Township; also in the household was Thomas's mother, Sarah (Clifford) Reed.1437 Her husband, Robert Reed, had died in 1848. In 1870, Thomas and second wife Jane were still in Ligonier Township.1438 Also in the household was Kate McKelvey, age 13, and a Jacob Tasur?, "works on farm." (The Kate McKelvey would probably have been Sarah Catherine McKelvey, daughter of John Jackson McKelvey, a son of James and Jane Patterson McKelvey-see the section "James and Jane (Patterson) McKelvey and their children." In 1880, Catherine McKelvey was back with her parents, John Jackson and Harriet McKelvey.1439 In 1880, Jane Clifford (McElroy) Reed was living by herself in Ligonier Borough.1440 In 1900, Jane was still living by herself in Ligonier Borough, having been a widow for 22 years; this census reports that Jane did not have children.1441
271. LAVINIA5 REED (Sarah4 Clifford, Charles3, James2, unknown Clifford1); born 26 January 1816 on the old homestead in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; died 24 February 1889; married JOHN LYTLE; born 18 August 1808 in Pennsylvania; died 7 May 1890. He was a brother of William Lytle who married Lavinia's sister Sarah Reed. See Chart 3: "Some Clifford-Lytles relationships." John and Lavinia started housekeeping in a cabin on the Spruce Hollow farm, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. In 1859 the family moved to Chambersville, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, where "the parents lived out their days and are buried in Plumcreek United Presbyterian Church [Cemetery], Washington Township, Indiana County."1446 In 1880, John, Lavinia and children John P., Sarah Ann, and Martha were in Washington Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.1447
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