(1842-1930), with intent to kill.
310
Elmer was put on trial and was
found guilty for the murder of his wife and for attempting to murder
his mother.
311
He was taken to the Virginia State Penitentiary in Rich-
mond, Virginia, where he would supposedly commit suicide two months
later when Mary was seven years old.
312
However, verbal history and ru-
mors state his death was staged and he hid out in the woods for years
near Ohio after his supposed suicide.
313
Mary married Noah James Reid (1884-1971) in 1905 at the age of
16, according to the 1930 census.
314
However, a family obituary lists
them as getting married in 1903 when Mary was 14.
315
The couple would
308
Wine, Life Along Holman’s Creek, 194, 196.
309
Ibid.
310
Wine, Life Along Holman’s Creek, 196, 197, 203-205
311
Wine, Life Along Holman’s Creek, 196, 203-205
312
Ibid, 208-209.
313
Don Silvius, “A Little Mystery,” Shenandoah County GenWeb Project, accessed April 24, 2022,
http://www.vagenweb.org/shenandoah/cem/mystery.html.
314
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.fami-
lysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CN5Y-P3Z : accessed 28 April 2022), Mary E Reed in household of Noah J Reed, Lee
Magisterial District, Shenandoah, Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 14, sheet 6A, line 31,
family 122, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration,
2002), roll 2460; FHL microfilm 2,342,194.
315
Personal knowledge of the author, Rebecca Polk.
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have four children: Amanda Elizabeth Reid (1905-1985), Floyd Houston
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