Clara Hoskins Allen Green was born in Kentucky. Her three children, Sarah, Thomas and Anna were born in Lebanon, Kentucky on the plantation of Foster Ray.
Sarah Jane married Felix Primus and they had eight children. Several years after Felix’s death Sarah and moved north 70 miles with some of her children to Louisville, Kentucky. She died in Louisville in 1907.
In 1864 Thomas Ray Allen joins the United States Colored Troops(USTC). Thomas Ray Allen mustered out in Helena, Phillips, Arkansas, in 1866 and was Honorably Discharged from the United States Colored Calvary. USCT Calvary 5. By 1877 living in Indianapolis, Indiana. In 1880 Thomas married Katherine Wiley of Ohio, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Anna Reed had eight children. In 1887 her oldest child Josie Campbell (22), married Charles H. Robertson in Indianapolis, Indiana and Sarah “Sally” Reed, her younger sister appears in the Indianapolis, Indiana Directory.
Josie’s son Charles Harry Robertson was born Indianapolis, Indiana in 1888, joining his older sister Bessie who was born before the marriage.
In 1889 Sarah (18), married Michigan native, James Busby (Parents born Virginia) in Indianapolis and moved to Berrien County, Michigan. James Busby’s father was married to uncle Thomas’ wife’s sister.
Anna’s oldest son, George Reed, (24) appeared in the Indianapolis City directory in 1891.
In 1891 Lillian, age 17, married Michigan native, Solonus Shoemaker (Parents born Virginia) in Berrien County, Michigan.
In 1893 Anna Reed appears in the Indianapolis directory. She would have had her four youngest children; Hugh (17), Minnie (15), Clarence (11) and Pearl (9) were with her .
1898, 27 April – Minnie Reed married James Mullins (born Georgia to parents born in Georgia.) in Indianapolis, Indiana.
In 1898 Hugh Reed Averit enlisted in the corps of engineers in Indianapolis. He was sent to Willetts Point, New York, where he ended up in the Navy as a coal passer for the next three years on the USFC Newark during Spanish American war. Philippines, China Expedition (Boxer Rebellion) In 1901 – Hugh was discharged from the navy in Boston, Massachusetts. He returned to Indianapolis, Indiana.
In 1904 Minnie and her growing family moved to Benton Harbor where her sisters Sarah and Lillian lived.
Hugh Reed married Blanche Young in 1906 in Indianapolis. Their four children are born in Indianapolis.
In 1910 Pearl Reed married Albert B. Cleage. The following year, Anna Reed died and my father was born. They moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1912 and then to Detroit in 1915, where they remained.
By 1917 Anna’s son Clarence had moved to Chicago where he continued to live until his death.
By 1928 Hugh Reed and family had relocated to Los Angeles, California. They changed their name to Averitt (Hugh’s father’s name), and lived there for the rest of their lives.
In 1950 Minnie Mullins was a widow. She lived in Kalamazoo, Michigan near her oldest daughter Helen. In 1963, Minnie died while living with her daughter Barbara in Ramsey County, Minnesota .
