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Reeves, Elizabeth (1800 GA - c1860 AL)

Reeves, Elizabeth

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Reeves, Elizabeth


Summary

Father: William Reeves
Mother: Hannah ( Rhodes?)

Birth: c1785 c. 1790, probably Guilford County, North Carolina
Birth Source: Census estimates

Death: c1860 probably Greene County, Alabama
Death Source: Recorded in 1860 Census

Spouse1: Alexander Benjamin Seale


Narrative


Exactly when Elizabeth Reeves was born or when she married Alexander Seale is unknown. The 1850 Greene County, Alabama, census showed her age as 50, and the 1830 Greene County, Alabama, census showed her age as 30-40 (thus suggesting a birthdate of 1790-1800). Certainly, Alexander was of age by about 1801; his oldest known child was born in 1802. It may be that Alexander's older children were the offspring of an earlier marriage and that he married Elizabeth Reeves about 1810. The children born after 1810 appear to have Reeves family names (William R., Lucretia, Cynthia, Hezekiah, and Jeremiah), while the older children do not have names associated with the Reeves family. It may be, then, that Elizabeth's birthdate was closer to 1790.

Alexander Seale was enumerated in Greene County, Alabama, in 1830, aged 40-50 with a wife aged 30-40. In his household were three males under age 15 and a male 20-30 years old. Also shown were females aged 10-15 and 15-20.

Alexander Seale and family were enumerated in Greene County, Alabama, in 1850: Alexander Seale, age 70, Farmer, $150, GA; Elizabeth, 50, GA; Jeremiah, 23, Farmer, AL; Eliza S., 24, AL; Iddia, 6/12, AL.

Children of Elizabeth Reeves and Alex Seal:
  1. Cela Seale, b. c 1802 Wilkes County GA, m. John Anderson
  2. Benton Seale, b. 21 Dec 1803 in Greene County AL, m. Sarah Jane Chandler
  3. Anthony Seale, b. 1807 Lincoln County GA, m. Peggy W. Jenkins
  4. William R. Seale, b. 1810 Lincoln County GA, m. Mary Ann Rudd
  5. Lucretia Seale, b. 1813 Lincoln County GA, m. Joshua Hargrove
  6. Cynthia Seale, b. 1814, m. James A. Stephens
  7. Sarah Seale, b. c1814 Lincoln County GA
  8. Jarvis Seale, b. 22 November 1818, Alabama, m. Drusilla Wilson
  9. Hezekiah Seale, b. 20 Sep 1820 Limestone County AL, m. Amanda Minerva Jackson
  10. Jeremiah Seale, b. c1825, Alabama, m. Eliza Lena Jackson

Research Notes

It appears through Ancestry DNA ThruLines DNA Group 2 is related via. son Hezekiah Seale his daughter Martha Frances Seale her daughter Lydia M. Payne her son Burton T. Shepherd to his daughter Betty Jean Shepherd to to her living child. More research is needed before this information can be relied upon.

Sources

1830 Greene County, Alabama, Census, p. 42.
1850 Greene County, Alabama, Census, HH 585.