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Reeves, Emily C. (c1826 - 1895)

Reeves, Emily C.

Reeves, Emily C.


Summary

Father: Absalom Reeves
Mother: Elizabeth Wheeler

Birth: c1826
Birth Source: Census

Death: 12 Jan 1895
Death Source: Probate

Spouse1: R. F. Norman

Narrative

Children of R. F. Norman and Emily C. Reeves:
  1. Mariah Elizabeth Norman, b. 11 Dec 1848, m. Ephraim Robert Hunter Dryden
  2. Nancy Ann Norman, b. c1851, m. Felix James Winsett
  3. T. C. Norman, b. c1853
  4. Laurina Norman, b. c1855, m. Wilson

Emily had to have been a daughter of Absalom Reeves. Her children appear in Absalom's household in 1860. She is listed on Findagrave as "Emily C. Reeves Norman" in the Reeves Cemetery in Bedford County (5 Apr 1827 - 10 Jan 1895), but with no headstone photo. She is living with "Reeves", age 76, apparently her mother.

Her probate record contains a kind of will in which she mentions two daughters, Mrs. F J Winsetts and Mrs. E R Dryden. Also mentions a deceased daughter Rena Wilson.

Sources

Death:      Tennessee, Wills and Probate Records, 1779-2008, Bedford Wills, Vol 1-2, 1861-1922, p742 (Ancestry)
Census:      1850 Census - Bedford County, Tennessee
                   1860 Census - Bedford County, Tennessee
                   1870 Census - Bedford County, Tennessee
                   1880 Census - Bedford County, Tennessee