Reeves, James (“Jimmie”) Wiley

Summary

Father: Wiley REEVES
Mother: Arminda Elizabeth WHITWORTH

Birth: May 1858
Birth Source: Obit

Death: December 1928
Death Source: Obit

Spouse1: Fannie ARNETT

Narrative

He appears as James W Reeves on the 1860 census in his parent’s household, the youngest of their five children at that time, in Walton, Georgia.

On the 1870 census James W Reeves again appears in his parent’s household in Brantleys District of Walton Co., Georgia.

J.W. Reeves was united in matrimony to Miss Fannie Arnett, fifth child and fourth daughter of William P. Arnett on February 28, 1878. (per obit)

The known children of James Wiley Reeves and his wife Fannie (nee Arnett) are

1. John Thomas Reeves, born March 1879
2. Elizabeth Reeves, born March 1881, m. Luther Huey BARFIELD
3. Ola Ann Reeves, born Dec 1882, m. Thomas Rueben BELL
4. Nora Arminda Reeves, born May 1886, m. Albia Theodore SMITH

James and Fannie have yet to be identified on the 1880 census.

On the 1900 census James W and Francis E Reeves are listed in Fox Creek, Clay Co., along with three of their four children. Their eldest child is John T Reeves and his place of birth is given as Alabama, which in the absence of an 1880 census sighting confirms that James had left Georgia and arrived in Alabama prior to his son John’s birth in March 1879.

On the 1910 census James W and Francis E Reeves are enumerated in Lineville. All of their children have left home and there are three boarders listed in their household.

On the 1920 census James W and Fannie E Reeves are again enumerated in Lineville, Clay Co. Three of their grandchildren, Milton (age 12), Norine (10), and Abbie R SMITH (3) are living with them, plus four boarders (including one also with surname Smith) and two servants. See Research Note 1 below.

On the 1930 census Francis E Reeves is enumerated as a widow. Still living with her are her grandchildren Norine & Albia R SMITH.

According to an obituary article in the Lineville Headlight of 3 January 1929, James Wiley Reeves died on 30 December 1928.

Research Notes

(1)     The SMITH grandchildren present with James and Fannie are the children of their daughter Nora Arminda SMITH (nee Reeves) who lost their mother to the Spanish Flu epidemic in October 1918. (See FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KZSF-DLJ)

Sources

Birth:        1929 Obituary
Marriage: 1929 Obituary
Death:      1929 Obituary
                 FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JK3X-9GZ
                 FindAGrave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43616660

1860 Census: FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZML-SSS
1870 Census: FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCQM-Q32
1880 Census:
1890 Census: n/a
1900 Census: FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M98Q-7HK
1910 Census: FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKQS-NQX
1920 Census: FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXZ7-9QX
1930 Census: FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:3628-NPZ – widow Frances E Reeves, dwelling 62