Information from the General Assembly Minutes of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church:

1868, page 104
M. E. Read
Logansport, Kentucky
Licentiate
Logan Presbytery

1869, page 82
M. E. Read
Logansport, Kentucky
Licentiate
Logan Presbytery, Synod of Green River

1870, page 78
M. E. Read
Logansport, Kentucky
Licentiate
Logan Presbytery, Synod of Green River

1871, page 78
M. E. Read
Logansport, Kentucky
Licentiate
Logan Presbytery

1872, page 124
E. M. Read
Logansport, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1873, page 101
M. E. Read
Henryville, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1874, page 100
M. E. Read
Berry's Lick, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1875, page 79
M. E. Read
Quality Valley, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1876, page 89
M. E. Read
Sugar Grove, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1877, page 85
[taken from 1876 list]
M. E. Read
Sugar Grove, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1878, page 93
[taken from 1876 list]
M. E. Read
Sugar Grove, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1879, page 89
[taken from 1876 list]
M. E. Read
Sugar Grove, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1880, page 116
M. E. Read
Quality Valley, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1881, page 87
M. E. Read
Quality Valley, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1882, page 118
M. E. Read
Logansport, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1883, page 126
M. E. Read
Morgantown, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1884, page 116
M. E. Read
Morgantown, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1885, page 131
M. E. Read
Quality Hill, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1886, page 159
M. E. Read
Quality Valley, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1887, page 156
M. E. Read
Quality Valley, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1888, page 168
M. E. Read
Quality Valley, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1889, page 177
M. E. Read
Quality Valley, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1890, page 124
M. E. Read
Quality Valley, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1891, page 138
M. E. Read
Quality Valley, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1892, page 145
M. E. Read
Quality Valley, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1893, pages 147, 210
M. E. Read
Auburn, Kentucky
Minister-Ebenezer Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Session Clerk's address-Cave Hill, Kentucky
Logan Presbytery

1894, pages 162, 222
M. E. Read
Auburn, Kentucky
Minister-Ebenezer Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Session Clerk's address-Cave Hill, Kentucky
Logan Presbytery

1895, page 168
M. E. Read
Auburn, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1896, page 155
M. E. Read
Auburn, Kentucky
Minister
Logan Presbytery

1897, page 276
M. E. Reid
Russellville, Kentucky
Minister, without charge
Logan Presbytery

1898, page 290
M. E. Read
Russellville, Kentucky
Minister, without charge
Logan Presbytery, Kentucky Synod

1899, page 194a
M. E. Read
Russellville, Kentucky
Minister, without charge
Logan Presbytery, Kentucky Synod

1900, page 209a
M. E. Read
Russellville, Kentucky
Minister, without charge
Logan Presbytery, Kentucky Synod

1901, page 267a
M. E. Reed
Russellville, Kentucky
Minister, without charge
Logan Presbytery, Kentucky Synod

1902, page 221a
M. E. Reed
Russellville, Kentucky
Minister, without charge
Logan Presbytery, Kentucky Synod

1903, page 207a
M. E. Reed
Russellville, Kentucky
Minister, without charge
Logan Presbytery, Kentucky Synod

1904, page 187a
M. E. Reed
South Union, Kentucky
Minister, without charge
Logan Presbytery, Kentucky Synod

1905, page 166a
M. E. Reed
South Union, Kentucky
Minister, without charge
Logan Presbytery, Kentucky Synod

1906, page 155a
M. E. Reed
South Union, Kentucky
Minister, without charge
Logan Presbytery, Kentucky Synod

1907 Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, page 266
Ministerial Necrology list:
Name: M. E. Reed
Occupation: Honorably Retired
Presbytery: Logan Presbytery
Place of Death: South Union, Kentucky
Date: March 19, 1907
Age: 65

"Committee on Literature and Theology offered the following report which was adopted.

Your Committee report that we have examined Brothers W. Foster, M. Maxey and R. J. Beard on English Grammar, Arithmetic and Algebra. Also Bro. M. E. Read on Church History. The examination was not as extensive as is desirable, but so far as it went was quite satisfactory. We recommend the Licentiates and Candidates under the care of this Presbytery to prosecute the course of study adopted by the Presbytery with all possible energy.

We also recommend that Bro. M. E. Read be set apart to the whole work of the Gospel Ministry. That he preach a trial sermon at 3 o'clock P.M. and that Rev. G. Mansfield preach the ordination sermon and Rev. J. W. Grider preside and give the charge in accordance with a previous order of this Presbytery. [August 14, 1871, page 88]

Brother M. E. Read preached a trial sermon from Romans 1:16 which on motion was sustained as popular preparation to ordination. By order of Presbytery Rev. G. Mansfield preached the ordination sermon from Mark 16:20. Presbytery then set apart of the whole work of the gospel ministry Bro. M. E. Read by prayer and the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery. Rev. J. W. Morton presided and gave the charge. All done in accordance with our Form of Government." [August 14, 1871, pages 93-94]

[Source: Minutes of Logan Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, August 12, 14, 1871, pages 88, 93-94]

REID.--Moses Elvis Reid was born in Butler county, Ky., February 6, 1832. He died in Simpson county, near South Union, Saturday evening, March 9, at eight o'clock, of pneumonia, after an illness of just one week. He was married August 1, 1872, to Elvin Emma Holland, who died July 15, 1893, leaving seven sons and three daughters, all of whom are living. Rev. J.C. Reid, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Walla Walla, Wash., is the oldest child. Rev. M. E. Reid joined presbytery in 1861 at Old Gasper, Logan county, Ky. But on account of the Civil War, which broke out about this time, hindering his progress in preparing for the ministry, it was not until 1871 that he was ordained, at Pleasant Hill, in Warren county. He was, however, engaged in the work of the ministry all this time; also teaching school, which profession he followed for more than twenty years. In 1871 he organized a Cumberland Presbyterian church at Henryville, in Logan county; the members now worship at Lewisburg. In 1884 he was appointed school commissioner of Butler, his native county. His father, Clement W. Reid, came from Virginia, and settled in Butler county, in the big bend of Green river, and was for many years an elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian church at Point Pleasant, being a brother of the late Hugh C. and Alex. Reid, both pioneer preachers of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Brother Reid had six sisters, three of whom are living, viz., Mrs. Nancy E. Wade, of Morgantown, Ky.; Mrs. Aurilla J. Austin, Terral, I.T., and Mrs. Elena A. Taylor, of Henrietta, Texas. His grandfather Reid was born in 1780; was a Virginian by birth; married Sallie Carr and settled in Little Muddy neighborhood about 1800, both of whom were possessed with the peculiar piety of that day, and were of the Presbyterian stock. They were charter members of Little Muddy church, Mr. Reid being an elder. Some time early in life he moved to the little bend of Green river with his family. He had eleven children--Hugh C., Ann, Clem, Moses T., Cynthia, Sallie, James B., Malinda, the youngest, Robert Alex. Hugh C. and Robert Alex. were both Cumberland Presbyterian preachers. Clem, the father of Moses Elvis Reid, was married to Betsy Smith. To them were born seven children; M. E. Reid the only son. Rev. M. E. Reid did much good in training the hearts and minds of the young wherever he taught. His labors in the pulpit were blessed of the Master. His word of instruction in the altar caused many to emerge from darkness into the light of the gospel. He prayed with wonderful power, and the Spirit came upon the people in answer to his humble petitions. To visit the home of Brother Reid, where his children paid him respect and unusual reverence, was to be convinced that he had taught them faithfully and efficiently in the way of God. Rev. M. E. Reid was a good man, who blessed the people whom he served, and a man who commanded the respect and received the good will of all who knew him. May the Lord bless his labors and help us to follow his worthy example! -- John D. Hunter.
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, June 27, 1907, page 831]