Jones, Thisbe

Summary

Father: Ebenezer Jones b.1752 MA d.1825 MA
Mother: Susanna Blackmer b.1755 MA d. 1828 MA

Birth: 21 Feb 1790 Great Barrington, Berkshire, MA
Birth Source:

Death: aft 1860 Somerville, Fayette Co., TN
Death Source:

Spouse1: David Higbie b.1783
Spouse2: Willis Reeves

Narrative

Child of David and Thisbe:

1. Emeline Higbie b.1809

Children of Thisbe and Willis Reeves:

1. Mary Andes C Reeves b. 1822 NC
2. Calvin Jones Reeves b.1824 NC
3. Atlas Jones Reeves b.1827 NC
4. S M Reeves b.1828 NC
5. Willis Gales Reeves b.1829
6. Benjamin Franklin Reeves b.1831
7. Thomas Jefferson Wesley Reeves b.1834

Married David Higbie 1805

Divorced granted from David Higbie 03 Dec 1813 Wake Co., NC

Married Willis Reeves 02 Jan 1822 Wake Forest, Wake Co., NC at the home of her brother, General Calvin Jones, M.D.

Weekly Raleigh Register, 18 Jan 1822
MARRIED,
At the seat of Gen. Calvin Jones, in the Wake Forest, on the 10th inst. the Rev. Willis Reeves, of Orange county, to Mrs. Thisbie Higbie, sister to the General.

Sources

Listed in the 1850 census Dist 4, Fayette, TN age 60

Thisbe wrote a letter to Julia Jones, her neice, the daughter of her brother Horace Jones, in Aug of 1830. A transcription of this letter can be found at-
http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/orange/history/letters/thisbejo135gms.txt
Weekly Raleigh Register, 18 Jan 1822