Reeves, Josiah Washington

Summary

Father: Thomas Isaac Reeves
Mother: Ms. Graves

Birth: c1811, Maryland
Birth Source: Census

Death: 19 Dec 1882, Grafton, West Virginia
Death Source: Headstone

Spouse1: Nancy Mosee (Kemper)

Narrative

Children of Josiah W. Reeves and Nancy Mosee (Kemper):

1. James Edmund Reeves, b. 5 Apr 1829
2. Joseph Henry Clay Reeves, b. c1831
3. Ann Maria Reeves, b. c1834
4. Emily Reeves, b. c1840
5. Thomas Asbury Reeves, b. c1843

There is a deed from 1832 in Charles County, Maryland, in which Josiah W. Reeves of Culpepper County, Virginia, sold land that was devised to him in his father Thomas I. Reeves's will.

The census and tax lists track some of his movements through Culpepper, Shenandoah, and Barbour Counties in Virginia.

The 1850 census says he was born in Virginia, but other census records state Maryland. The census denotes he was a tailor and Methodist minister.

The Baltimore Sun, 21 Dec 1882
REEVES - At Grafton, West Virginia, 19th instant, Rev. JOSIAH W. REEVES, aged 73 years.

An obituary for his son James Edmund Reeves in the The Sanitarian includes the following information:
James Edmund Reeves died at his home in Chattanooga, Tenn., January 4th, 1896. He was the son of the Rev Josiah Washington and Nancy Mosee (Kemper) Reeves, grandson of Thomas Washington Reeves, was born April 5th, 1829, in Amissville, Rappahannock County, Va.

This obituary incorrectly names Josiah's father as Thomas Washington Reeves. This was probably the name of his brother Thomas W. Reeves who was mentioned in their father's will.

Josiah's granddaughter Anna Jarvis, daughter of Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis, was the founder of Mother's Day.

Research Notes

Sources

Death:        Headstone, Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland
                   The Baltimore Sun, 21 Dec 1882

1840 Census:  Shenandoah County, Virginia (Rives)
1850 Census:  Barbour County, Virginia (WV)
1860 Census:  Barbour County, Virginia (WV)
1880 Census:  Baltimore, Maryland

The Sanitarian, vol. 36 (1896), p277
The Mother of Mothers Day - Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis (1832-1905)
1832 Deed - Josiah W. Reeves to Aquila Turner - Charles County, Maryland Deed Book IB20, p116
1832B Personal Property Tax List - Culpepper County, Virginia
1844 Tax List - Barbour County, (West) Virginia