BE-cause they were darker than acceptable,

they plant'd

BE-cause they dreamed everything impossible,
they water'd

BE-cause they endured tasks unthinkable,
they prosper'd

BE-cause they forg'd strong links innumerable,

now they rest.


© 2004 by cynth'ya lewis reed

Authors Note: The Reed family as we know it began in Abbeyville South Carolina.

The memorial in the photo above is 8 feet tall in Como Mississippi where the bodies of the Abbeyville decendants, Bill Reed (original slave name Reid) and Sarah Partee now rest in peace.
Reed Puryear Memorial Pictures