Reeves, Joseph E.

Summary

Father: Reeves, John Clay
Mother: Johnson, Catherine

Birth: 1870, Georgia
Birth Source: Tombstone, Anderson-Reeves Cemetery

Death: 10 January 1934, Fulton County, Georgia
Death Source: Tombstone, Anderson-Reeves Cemetery

Spouse1: Stevens, Mrs. Susan (Reeves), 1 June 1894, Troup Co., GA

Narrative

Children of Joseph E. Reeves and Susan Reeves (Stevens):

1. Rachel Reeves, b. May 1900, Troup Co., Georgia

By 1910, Joseph E. Reeves was a widower, and he remained such for the rest of his life. Family members recalled him as a favorite bachelor uncle who told entertaining stories by the campfire. He was said at one point to have traveled to Oklahoma but to have been forced to return to Georgia after he got into trouble with natives on a reservation there.

Joseph was married briefly to his first cousin, a widow with one daughter, who predeceased him. As per the 1900 census, they had one child together.

Sources

Birth:        Anderson-Reeves Family Cemetery, Polk County, Georgia
Death:        Anderson-Reeves Family Cemetery, Polk County, Georgia
                   1934 Georgia Death Certificate, Fulton Co., GA, 1114-180 (indexed at familysearch.org as Reener). Note that John Anderson of Rockmart, GA, a nephew, was informant.
Census:      1880 Census - Fulton Co., Georgia, City of Atlanta
                   1900 Census - Troup Co., Georgia, Dixie Mill District, HH 379/422
                   1910 Census - Polk Co., GGeorgia, North Cedartown and Rockmart Road, HH 126