Joan Reed

"' Your Grandmama Joan was like your mother, she fell deeply in love, so in love the simply though of another man caused her to weep. The first victim of our family curse, her husband and father of her children died while going over seas to England they never found his body. When she died, her children never buried her instead they had her cremated and spread in the sea to find her love '""- Aunt Jillian to Aliyah and Sara about the Joan."Joan Ambrosine Reed is the only child and daughter of Jeanne Reed and Malachi G. Ackroyd. Joan never knew her father and was raised solely by her mother

She married lawyer and abolitionist John O. Thornton and they had twins Jerald and Jessica.

Powers
Joan was a "natural witch" meaning her powers "come from within". Joan learned her craft from her mother before her passing
 * Magic - The ability to connect with the mystical forces of nature and bend the universe to her liking whether it be the laws of reality, manipulation of luck, probability and science, jinxing people and making incidents and occurrences fall into place. This can be used with concentration of the mind, meditation, conjuring and invoking spirits and supernatural energies and using occult and spiritual tools and resources including rituals and chants for numerous affects.

Etymology

 * Joan is the feminine form of John which is the English form of Iohannes, the Latin form of the Greek name Ἰωάννης (Ioannes), itself derived from the Hebrew name יוֹחָנָן (Yochanan) meaning "Yahweh is gracious", from the roots יוֹ (yo)referring to the Hebrew God and חָנַן (chanan) meaning "to be gracious".
 * Ambrosine is the feminine form of Ambrose is from the Late Latin name Ambrosius, which was derived from the Greek name Ἀμβρόσιος (Ambrosios) meaning "immortal". Saint Ambrose was a 4th-century theologian and bishop of Milan, who is considered a Doctor of the Church. Due to the saint, the name came into general use in Christian Europe, though it was never particularly common in England.
 * Reed is a variant of Read which means "red" from Middle English read, probably denoting a person with red hair or complexion.