The county history gives his birth data. It says the family moved to Licking Co in 1861 near Elizabethtown. In 1873 his parents moved to Danville, Knox Co where his mother died one year later at the age of 37. Two years after this his father moved to Missouri. He was one of ten children - 7 boys 3 girls. His youngest brother and one sister died before 1878. He and his father were carpenters, and he was farming 80 acres of the Linn estate in 1878. They had a daughter, Emily Ellen 15 March 1880.
In the 1880 census, he is listed as age 27, a farmer born in VA as were his parents.
1900 census shows Meredith living in Newton Twp, Licking County with wife Mary W. (b. 2/1858) and son Meredith S. (6/1888) and daughter Minnie D. (5/1895).
1910 census which lists Merilth (sic?) H. Reid, age 57 living with wife Mary, aged 52 and children Emily 14 and Lester 8. Also living in Newark is Meredith H. Reid, aged 22 with wife Ella (probably Mary Ella Cada) and sons Homer (Howard), aged 2 and daughter Lillian.
[Obituary] The Newark Advocate, OH - Wed, 9 Jul 1930, Pg 11
MEREDITH L. REID
Meredith Lysander Reid, 77, died Tuesday afternoon at 2:08 o'clock in the home of his son, Clifford Reid, 420 Manning street. He had been ill since Saturday and death was due to a kidney condition. He was born Jan. 2, 1858, in VIrginia, the son of Lysander and Mary Reid, and on March 20, 1878, he was married to Mary D. Moats, who is deceased.
He leaves two daughters, Mrs. Thomas Young, of. this city, Mrs. Byrl Schenck, also of Newark; three sons, Clifford, Meredith and Lester, of Newark; nine grandchildret and five great-grandchildren: also two sisters, Mrs. Ella Winn, of Colorado, Mrs. Hannah Southard, of Missourl, and three brothers, Thaddeus Reid, of Jacksontown, James, of Missouri and William Reid.
Three brothers and a sister are deceased. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock in the home in Manning street and burial will be made in Cedar Hill cemetery.
Funeral directors, Criss Brothers.