Reeves, Loftin Marion

Summary

Father: Burgess Reeves
Mother: Elizabeth Tanner

Birth: 4 Mar 1838, DeKalb County, Georgia
Birth Source: Georgia Death Certificate #8955

Death: 2 Apr 1922, Smyrna, Cobb County, Georgia
Death Source: Georgia Death Certificate #8955

Spouse1: Elizabeth Hand

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Narrative

Children of Loftin Marion Reeves and Elizabeth:

1. William Braton Reeves, b. 1866, d. 1907, m. Laura Lock
2. Marion P. Reeves, b. 6 Feb 1869, d. 8 Oct 1869
3. Lela E. Reeves, b. 15 Oct 1872, d. 4 Apr 1873
4. Lorena Reeves, b. 1875, m. James T. Perkins

Enlisted May 1861 at Randolph County, Alabama in Co. K of the 13th Alabama Infantry Regiment. Served until the close of the war, Lee's surrender at Appomatox.

Marion's wife Elizabeth's gravestone in the Greenwood Cemetery in Cedartown gives her date of death as 1911. When the 1920 census was taken, he was living in the household of his daughter, Lorena Reeves Perkins in Cobb County, Georgia.

Sources

1850 Census - DeKalb County, Georgia
1870 Census - Cedartown, Polk County, Georgia
1880 Census - Cedartown, Polk County, Georgia
1910 Census - Cedartown, Polk County, Georgia
1920 Census - Smyrna, Cobb County, Georgia
Georgia Death Certificate #8955
Confederate Pension Application, Georgia Archives