Reeves, Elizabeth

Summary

Father: Reeves, Charles
Mother: Wisdom, Lucy

Birth: 1804, Dartmouth, Halifax co., Nova Scotia
Birth Source: Tombstone inscription

Death: 1899, Fall River, Halifax co., Nova Scotia
Death Source: Tombstone inscription

Spouse1: Miller, John

Narrative

Elizabeth was born to parents Charles Reeves and Lucy Wisdom in 1804. She married John Miller in 1831 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and settled in the Fall River area in Halifax county, near several of her siblings, including her sister Lucy, who was married to her husband's brother (see Gray & Smith). She appears to have gone by the name Eliza during her adult life. Her husband John died in 1864. She died many years later, in 1899 and is buried in the St. John's Anglican church cemetery in Fall River beside her husband.

Her known children are as follows:

1. John D. Miller, 1831-1923
2. Charles H. Miller, b. 1832
3. Lucy Miller, 1835-1912
4. Harriet Miller, b. 1840
5. Edward Howe Miller, 1854-1933

Research Notes

Sources

Marriage1:  Nova Scotia Archives - Nova Scotia Marriage bond, Halifax county, dated 24 May 1831, Registration Year: 1831 - Book: 1800 - Page: 6050
                   Christ Church Anglican Church, Dartmouth, Halifax county; marriage record dated 28 May 1831
Burial:       Tombstone inscription for Elizabeth Reeves, St. John's Anglican Church Cemetery, Fall River, Halifax co., Nova Scotia.

1861 Census:  Halifax county, polling district 18
1871 Census:  Truro Road, Halifax East, Nova Scotia
1881 Census:  Ward 5, Halifax City, Nova Scotia
1891 Census:  Waverley, Halifax, Nova Scotia (Edward Miller family)

History Along the Old Guysborough Road, Gray & Smith, pub. 1987