Reeve, Jonas C.

Summary

Father: Gilbert Reeve
Mother: Charlotte Sayre

Birth: c1816, New Jersey
Birth Source: Census

Death: 21 Aug 1906, at home, Newark, Essex County, New Jersey
Death Source: Obituary

Spouse1: Harriet
Spouse2: Lydia

Narrative

Children of Jonas C. and Harriet:

1. William Reeve, b. c1840
2. Gilbert Reeve, b. c1843
3. Theodore Reeve, b. c1845
4. Jonas Reeve, b. c1848
5. Harriet L. Reeve, b. c1850, d. 23 Aug 1852
6. Thomas B. Reeve, b. c1855

Newark Daily Advertiser, 30 Aug 1852
On the 23th inst., of dropsy on the brain, Harriet L. only daughter of Jonas C. Reeve, aged 2 years and 3 mos.
Funeral this (Monday) afternoon, at 2 o'clock, from No. 14 South Essex st.

He was living with his son Thomas in 1905.

Trenton Evening Times, 23 Aug 1906
Famous Church Builder Dead.
Newark, Aug. 23. - Jonas C. Reeve, who erected the Halsey Street M. E., the Hill Street M. E., South Park Presbyterian and St. Paul's M. E. Churches, died at his home, 179 Chadwick avenue, Tuesday afternoon. He was ninety-one years old, and death was due to a stroke of apoplexy, with which he was stricken Sunday night.

Research Notes

Sources

Death:        Obituary, Trenton Evening Times, 23 Aug 1906

1840 Census:  Newark, Essex County, New Jersey
1850 Census:  Newark, Essex County, New Jersey
1860 Census:  Newark, Essex County, New Jersey
1870 Census:  Newark, Essex County, New Jersey
1880 Census:  Newark, Essex County, New Jersey

Newark Daily Advertiser, 30 Aug 1852
1905 New Jersey State Census