Reeves, Lewis Harvey

Summary

Father: Lewis Reeves
Mother: Hannah Miller

Birth: 21 Jun 1822, Trumbull County, Ohio
Birth Source: Headstone, Biography

Death: 21 Mar 1905
Death Source: Headstone

Spouse1: Phoebe Hogland, m. 21 Sep 1842, Mercer County, Pennsylvania
Spouse2: Julia Ann Johnson, m. 15 Jan 1873, Rock Island, Illinois

Narrative

Children of Lewis Reeves and Phoebe Hogland:

1. Melvina Reeves, b. c1845
2. John M. Reeves, b. c1847
3. Franklin Reeves, b. c1850
4. Flora Reeves, b. c1854
5. Frederick Reeves, b. 4 Jul 1858

Portrait and biographical album of Rock Island County, Illinois contains the following biography of Lewis:

L. H. Reeves, a retired farmer of Cordova Township and a resident of the village of the same name, was born June 21, 1822, in Trumbull Co., Ohio. Lewis and Hannah (Miller) Reeves, his parents, were both natives of New Jersey, and went thence to Trumbull Co., Ohio, in the earliest days of the settlement of that part of the Buckeye State. His father bought a considerable tract of timber and remained there until he improved a fine farm. He was a man of more than ordinary abilities, which were soon discovered in a new country where they were needed; and, after a residence of a few years, he was elected High Sheriff of Trumbull County. He served in the office a number of years, and in 1844 he removed to Dart Co., Ind., where he died.

Mr. Reeves has been the controller of his own affairs since he was nine years of age. He went first to Hartford Township, Trumbull County, and there became a member of the household of a Methodist minister named John Burnett, who was also a farmer, and by whom he was employed on the farm two years. He then went to Warren, and was there engaged in learning the details of the business of a wagon-maker, with Messrs. Bruner & Kendall. He went thence to Newton Falls, and passed one year in working at his trade. His next place of operation was at Liberty, where he remained one year, and subsequent to that time he was nine months at Hubbard. He then went to Sharon, in Mercer County, and worked there at his trade until 1844. In that year he made his first purchase of land, which he bought in Sharon, and he passed the years until 1856 in agricultural pursuits.

In the year last named he came to Illinois and located in the township of Cordova. He spent a year in working as a wagon-maker, and at the end of that time he bought a farm on sections 29 and 30, securing a claim of 100 acres. He took possession of the place in i860 and it was his home until 1876, when he rented his farm and removed to Cordova, into a residence which he had purchased.

Mr. Reeves formed a matrimonial alliance with Phebe Hogland, Sept. 21, 1842, in Mercer Co. Pa., and they are the parents of three children. They have lost four by death. Melvina married Martin Vanderburg and they are living in Madison Co., Iowa. Frank and Fred live at Cordova. The mother died in 1871. The second marriage of Mr. Reeves was to Julia Johnson, a native of Morgan Co., Ohio.

Research Notes

1880 census states parents were born in Pennsylvania while the 1900 states New Jersey.

Sources

Birth:          See Headstone
Marriage1:  See Biography
Marriage2:  FamilySearch - Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940
Death:        See Headstone
Burial:       Findagrave - Cordova Cemetery, Cordova, Rock Island County, Illinois

1850 Census:  Hickory, Mercer County, Pennsylvania (Hervey Reaves)
1860 Census:  Cordova, Rock Island County, Illinois
1870 Census:  Cordova, Rock Island County, Illinois
1880 Census:  Cordova, Rock Island County, Illinois
1900 Census:  Cordova, Rock Island County, Illinois

Biographical Publishing Company. (1885). Portrait and biographical album of Rock Island County, Illinois, p460