Reeves, Lemuel Wick

Summary

Father: Edward Reeves
Mother: Lucretia Wick

Birth: 21 Oct 1799, New York
Birth Source: Family Bible, Census

Death: c1857, Sag Harbor, New York
Death Source: Son's Bio

Spouse1: Hannah Ann Jacobs

Narrative

Children of Lemuel Wick Reeves and Hannah Ann Jacobs:

1. Henry Augustus Reeves, b. 7 Dec 1832
2. Edward Reeves, b. c1835
3. Mary Reeves, b. c1839
4. Charles Reeves, b. cDec 1843
5. Walter Reeves, b. c1845

The following baptism with birth is recorded in Southampton Presbyterian Church Records:

• 1800 Jan. 5 - Lemuel Wick, son of Edward Reeves and Lucretia Wick, his wife, born Oct. 21, 1799.

The biography of their son Henry gives the following additional information about this family:

Mr. Reeves is one of three surviving members (two sons and one daughter) of a family of five children: Henry A., Edward L., Mary C., Charles O., and Walter L., born to Lemuel W. and Hannah Ann (Jacobs) Reeves, who were born in Southampton and Huntington, L. I., in 1799 and 1801 respectively. Lemuel W. Reeves was a cooper by trade and after a useful and well spent life, died at Sag Harbor, at the age of fifty-eight years, after a wedded life of twenty-six years.

Hannah is listed variably as Hannah and Ann on the census. She was still listed in the same household with some of her children in 1880.

Research Notes

Sources

Birth:          Pierson-Reeves Family Bible
Baptism:    Southampton Presbyterian Church Records

1840 Census:  Southampton, Suffolk County, New York
1850 Census:  Southampton, Suffolk County, New York
1860 Census:  Southold, Suffolk County, New York (David White HOH)
1870 Census:  Southold, Suffolk County, New York (Henry Reeve HOH)
1880 Census:  Greenport, Suffolk County, New York (Hannah A. Reeve HOH)

Chapman Publishing Company. (1896). Portrait and biographical record of Suffolk county (Long Island) New York, Vol. 2, p934