Reeves, Elizabeth

Summary

Father: Benjamin Reeves
Mother: Mary Crooke

Birth: 23 Mar 1789, Mason County, Kentucky
Birth Source: Headstone

Death: 8 Sep 1860
Death Source: Headstone

Spouse1: Peter Driskell, m. 28 Mar 1809 in Mason County, Kentucky

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Narrative

Elizabeth's husband Peter Driskell was one of the major buyers at the estate sale of her father Benjamin Reeves in May of 1834. (Mason County Will Records Vol. H, p.94-99)

A Nanny A. Ferguson was living with them in 1860.

Elizabeth is buried in a small family cemetery with apparently only two headstones. Her's states she was the wife of Peter Driskell and gives her birth and death dates. There is a second broken one with a partial name "agglia? H."

Sources

Birth:          Headstone, Family Cemetery on land of Nevaeh Hesler, 6 miles from Maysville, Kentucky (Email to J. Reeves 20 Mar 2020)
Marriage1:  Kentucky, Marriages, 1785-1979, Family Search
Death:        Headstone, Family Cemetery on land of Nevaeh Hesler, 6 miles from Maysville, Kentucky

1860 Census:  Mason County, Kentucky

Mason County Will Records Vol. H, p.94-99