Family of John Durdan Reeves of Halifax Co., NC
The map and above text both first appeared in May 2017 as part of post entitled "Early Reeves' Families in Colonial America" researched and written by Beverly for the blog Reeves, Reaves, and More Rives she co-authors and is included here with her permission.According to his Revolutionary War pension statement, John Durdan/Durden Reeves was born in Halifax County, North Carolina (location 10 on the adjacent map) in 1759. He volunteered in 1780 from Halifax County, served several tours and had been commissioned as a Lieutenant by the end of the war.
After the Revolution he lived for several years in Cumberland County where he married around 1788. By the census of 1800, he had migrated westward to Surry County where he died in 1841. Some of his descendants remained in the Surry County NC area while others migrated to Tennessee and Kentucky.
The descendants of John Durdan Reeves who have participated in the Reeves DNA Project are represented in DNA Group 6B.
Person Pages have been created within TRP for the following descendants of this individual. Please see footnote [F1] below.
- John Durden Reeves : Reeves, John Durdan (1759 NC - 1841 NC)
- Richard Elwell Reeves : Reeves, Richard Elwell (1788 NC - 1872 TN)
- John Durdan Reeves : Reeves, John Durdan (1826 TN - c1860 TN)
- John Buchanan Reeves : Reeves, John Buchanan (1856 TN - 1933 TN)
- John Franklin Reeves : Reeves, John Franklin (1881 TN - 1958 TN)
- Dayton Dewey Reeves : Reeves, Dayton Dewey (1910 TN - 2004 TN)
- James Lee Reeves : Reeves, James Lee (1835 TN - 1910 TN)
- Samuel Wesley Reeves : Reeves, Samuel Wesley (1876 TN - 1954 TN)
- Arthur Fane Reeves : Reeves, Arthur Fane (1907 TN - 1985 TN)
- Micajah Reeves : Reeves, Micajah (1792 NC - 1848 NC)
- Micajah Coke Reeves : Reeves, Micajah Coke (1832 NC - 1921 NC)
- Charles Mercer Reeves, Sr. : Reeves, Charles Mercer (1879 NC - 1949 NC)
- Charles Mercer Reeves, Jr. : Reeves, Charles Mercer (1919 NC - 1995 NC)
- John Reeves : Reeves, John (c1800 NC - ?)
- Sarah Locke Reeves : Reeves, Sarah Locke (1805 NC - 1889 NC)
- Jesse Franklin Reeves : Reeves, Jesse Franklin (1812 NC - 1875 KY)
- John Franklin Reeves : Reeves, John Franklin (1857 TN - 1888 KY)
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