Reeves, Bennett Fielding

Summary

Father: John D. Reeves
Mother: Elizabeth M. Woodruff

Birth: Mar. 1823, Georgia
Birth Source: 1900 Census

Death: after 1920, Rusk County, Texas
Death Source:

Spouse1: Elizabeth Wright, m. 7 Mar 1844 in Meriwether County, Georgia

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Narrative

Children of Bennett Fielding Reeves and Elizabeth Wright:

1. Elisa A. Reeves, b. 1845
2. Mary Jane Reeves, b. 1847
3. William C. Reeves, b. 1849
4. Elisabeth Reeves, b. 13 Feb 1852
5. Amelia Jane Reeves, b. 20 Mar 1855
6. John Reeves, b. 6 Feb 1862
7. James Nathaniel Reeves, b. 13 Feb 1865

In the 1880 census, Bennett F. Reeves gives information that his father was born in Maryland and his mother in Georgia. This confirms that he was a grandson of Bennett Reeves, son of Thomas Reeves and Mary Murphy of Charles County, Maryland, who migrated to Wilkes County, Georgia around 1800.

Sources

Georgia Marriage Records
1850 Census of Meriwether County, Georgia
1860 Census of Tallapoosa County, Alabama
1870 Census of Stewart County, Georgia
1880 Census of Stewart County, Georgia
1900 Census of Rusk County, Texas
1920 Census of Rusk County, Texas