The Job Reed family had come to Lethbridge in 1886
and he built a small house and had a five acre garden
on sixth avenue south in Lethbridge. In 1890 he built
a stone house designed as a duplex which still stands
at 1252-54 6 Avenue South. When Gwatkins arrived
in the district, Job Reed built their first house. In 1906
Job Reed purchased Edgehill Farm but died before his
family moved there. Trees on the farm were oak brought
from England (their native land). His wife, Mary, lived
on the farm until renting it to the Sniders when she moved
to Kelowna B.C., to live with her daughter. She died
there in 1932.

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