Reeves, Caleb

Summary

Father: John Reeves
Mother: Mrs. Rebecca Gaskill Huber

Birth: 24 Sep 1784, probably New Jersey
Birth Source: Census for age estimate and memorial at Find A Grave

Death: 24 Nov 1845, Shelby County, Indiana
Death Source: Find A Grave

Spouse1: Anna VanSickle, m. 27 Nov 1813 in Mason County, Kentucky

Narrative

Children of Caleb Reeves and Anna VanSickle:

1. William Henry Reeves, b. 28 Jul 1812
2. John Lewis Reeves, b. 13 Feb 1815
3. James Peter Reeves, b. 2 Jan 1820
4. Stacy Taylor Reeves, b. 23 Feb 1823
5. Rebecca Jane Reeves, 21 Oct 1825
6. Charles Wesley Reeves, b. 9 Aug 1828
7. Abraham Reeves, b. 1832
8. Mary Reeves, b. 1834

Caleb Reeves is recorded as enlisting on 27 Aug 1812 in Capt. John Dowden's Company of Pogue's Regiment, Kentucky Militia during the War of 1812.

Court minutes of May 1827, show Caleb as having been a buyer at the estate sale of Thomas Griffey in Campbell County, Kentucky. [Book B, p. 207]. On 23 Jul 1831, Caleb was the bondsman for the marriage of John D. Johnson to Elizabeth Youngman in Campbell County which was the last record for him in Campbell County, Kentucky.

In Chadwick's History of Shelby Co., Indiana (p. 141), it was noted that Caleb Reeves assisted Reverends Peter Clinger and Hawkey in the establishment the Methodist church at their residence.

Research Notes

Caleb Reeves disappears from Campbell County after 1831 and a Caleb Reeves then appears in Shelby County, Indiana in the 1840 census. Based upon the number, sex and estimated ages of the children in Caleb's 1830 household and that of the 1840 Shelby County household, this would appear to be the same person. A widowed Ann Reeves, born 1793 in Kentucky, also appears in Shelby County in the 1850 census with the five youngest children listed above. Older children who had already married and left home are not named.

A descendant of Caleb Reeves has participated in the Reeves' DNA Project at FtDNA and matches descendants of Walter Reeves of Burlington, New Jersey of DNA Group 20.

Sources

Marriage1:  FamilySearch - Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954

1820 Census:  Campbell County, Kentucky
1830 Census:  Campbell County, Kentucky
1840 Census:  Shelby County, Indiana
1850 Census:  Moral, Shelby County, Indiana (HOH Ann Reeves)
1860 Census:  Warren County, Iowa (Ann Reeves, HOH Stacy T. Reeves)

Find A Grave - memorials of Ann VanSickle Reeves and children
Kentucky Soldiers of the War of 1812, p. 98 pub. 1931 at Ancestry.com