Reeves, Daniel L.

Summary

Father: Moses G. Reeves
Mother: Catherine S.

Birth: 24 Dec 1828, Tennessee
Birth Source: Headstone

Death: 7 Jul 1876
Death Source: Headstone

Spouse1: Mary B. Shaw
Spouse2: Mary Lewis Garner, m. 12 Oct 1858, Rutherford County, Tennessee

Narrative

Children of Daniel L. Reeves and Mary B. Shaw:

1. Charles Reeves, b. c1853
2. Levi W. Reeves, b. c1855
3. Sophia Reeves, b. c1856

Children of Daniel L. Reeves and Mary Lewis Garner:

1. Katie Reeves, b. c1860
2. Addie Reeves, b. c1862
3. Moses Reeves, b. c1865
4. Lonza Reeves, b. c1868
5. Mary Reeves, b. c1870

The name of the first wife is stated on the death certificate of daughter Sophia Reeves Haynes.

The Tennessean, 2 Dec 1869
Daniel L. Reeves, of the "blue grass region" of Bedford County, is registered at the Maxwell House. He is one of the olden time gentleman, clever and courteous.

Republican Banner, 27 Nov 1872
REEVES - Near Beech Grove in Bedford County, Tennessee, on Sunday evening last, Mrs. Mary Lewis Reeves, wife of Colonel Daniel L. Reeves, widely known and universally beloved by every one. A Christian, member of the Methodist Church. She left several children, who will miss a kind mother.

The Tennessean, 9 Jul 1874
COL. DANIEL L. REEVES
was in town Monday, and would not object to representing our folks in the next Legislature, but as yet our Legislative slate is almost a blank It will be filled up, I suppose, as soon as the August elections are over. Who with? That's uncertain. C. L. X.

Research Notes

Sources

Marriage2:  FamilySearch - Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950
Burial:       Findagrave - Old City Cemetery, Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee

1870 Census:  District 1, Bedford County, Tennessee

The Tennessean, 2 Dec 1869
Republican Banner, 27 Nov 1872
The Tennessean, 9 Jul 1874