Gaston Reeves

Reeves, Gaston

Summary

Father: William Reeves
Mother: Anne Terrell

Birth: c1814, Ashe County, North Carolina
Birth Source: Census

Death: c1860, probably Greenwood County, Kansas Territory
Death Source: Census, children are orphans in 1860 census.

Spouse1: Elizabeth McCullough, m. 14 Apr 1836, Greene County, Indiana

Narrative

Children of Gaston Reeves and Elizabeth McCullough:

1. Albert Reeves?, b. 1837
2. Moses "Mack" Reeves?, b. 1838
3. William Morgan Reeves?, b. c1840
4. Marion Reeves?, b. 1841
5. Jackson Reeves?, b. 1844
6. Mary A. Reeves?, b. 1847
7. S. J. Reeves?, b. 1850
8. Elizabeth Reeves?, b. 1852
9. Ellen Reeves?, b. 1854
10. Enoch Reeves?, b. 1858

Gaston Reeves is listed in Carroll County, Arkansas in the 1840 census with 2 males under 5, 1 male 20-29 and 1 female 20-29. In the 1850 census, he and his family are recorded in Independence County, Arkansas and his brother
William, age 38, is living in the household.

Gaston apparently migrated into the Kansas Territory along with his brother Terrill for the history of Wilson County names Ella Reeves, born 1857 the child of Gaston Reeves as the first white child born in the county. Whether there was another child born to Gaston and Elizabeth who died prior to 1860 or this is the Ellen Reeves listed with her siblings in the Greenwood County household of physician, A. Venard in the 1860 census is unknown.

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