Reeves, Louis

Summary

Father: Pierre Reeves
Mother: Appoline Petit

Birth: 22 Feb 1841, Quebec, Canada
Birth Source: MA Death Record

Death: 26 Oct 1895, Lowell, Massachusetts
Death Source: MA Death Record

Spouse1: Philomene Sylvester

Narrative

Children of Louis Reeves and Philomene Sylvester:

1. Louis Reeves, b. Jun 1864
2. Victoria Reeves, b. c1866
3. Rosanna Reeves, b. 5 Sep 1868, m. Edmund Lambert
4. Georgianna Reeves, d. 7 Jun 1874
5. Exena Reeves, b. 16 Aug 1870
6. Frank Reeves, b. c1872
7. William Reeves, b. 25 Dec 1877
8. Albert Reeves, b. 8 Aug 1880

There is a baptism record for Louis, son of Pierre Reeves and Appoline Petit from Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada.

Death record states he was 54y 8m 4d old and was buried at Chelmsford. Parents names given as Pierre and Appoline Petit, both born in Canada.

Louis's mother-in-law Angeline Valven was living with them in 1880. A number of the children's death records state Philomene's maiden name as Sylvester.

Exenor/Exena's and Rosina's birth records show they were born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

Philomene apparently remarried to a Clement Chausse as her death record states her name as Philomene Chausse nee Sylvester (Clement Chausse). She died 6 Jul 1911 in Lowell (Death Certificate).

Lowell Sun, 7 Jul 1911
REEVES - Philomene Sylvestre, wife of the late Louis Reeves, aged 72 years, died today at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Edmond Lambert, 742 Middlesex street. The deceased is survived by five children, Mrs. Albert Dyke of Newburyport, Mrs. Edmond Lambert of this city, Mrs. Alexina Mailloux of Chicago, Frank and Albert Reeves of Graniteville, also three sistersm Mrs. Marie Boucher of New Bedford, Mrs. Pierre Duhaime of Machester and Mrs. F. X. Giroux of Farnham, Que., as well as two brothers, Delphis and Capitre Sylvestre of Woonsocket, R. I.

Research Notes

Sources

Birth:          Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968 (Ancestry)
Death:        Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924 (FamilySearch)

1880 Census:  Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts