Reeves, Martha Elizabeth

Summary

Father: Jesse Reeves
Mother: Rhoda Green

Birth: 6 Dec 1835, Lauderdale County, Alabama
Birth Source: Texas Deaths and Burials, 1903-1973 (Ancestry)

Death: 6 or 7 Sep 1918, Bell Co, Texas
Death Source: Texas Deaths and Burials, 1903-1973 (Ancestry)

Spouse1: Hezekiah Franklin Perkins, m. 4 Jan 1859, Hardin County, Tennessee

Narrative

Children of Hezekiah Franklin Perkins and Martha Elizabeth Reeves:

1. Perry Perkins, b. c1860
2. John Perkins, b. c1862
3. William Stewart Perkins, b. c1865, d. 30 Jun 1952
4. Jesse Perkins, b. c1869
5. Laura Perkins, b. c1869
6. Sarah Ann Perkins, b. 27 Jul 1869, d. 23 Mar 1957

The death record for son William states he died in Lauderdale County, Alabama. Death record for Sarah Ann says she was born in Florence in Lauderdale County. The pension record for Martha states she was born in Lauderdale County, Alabama and gives the date and location of her marriage.

Headstone says died on the 6th. Death Certificate states father was born in South Carolina.

In 1860, her sister Margaret C. Reeves, age 11, was living with them.

Mary Reeves, age 15, is living with the family in 1870.

Sources

Birth:      Texas Deaths and Burials, 1903-1973 (Ancestry)
                   Headstone, Little River-Wilson Valley Cemetery, Bell Co., Texas
Marriage1:  Alabama, Texas and Virginia, Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 (Ancestry), Martha Elizabeth Perkins, 1914
Death:      Texas Deaths and Burials, 1903-1973 (Ancestry)
                   Headstone, Little River-Wilson Valley Cemetery, Bell Co., Texas

1860 Census:  Wayne County, Tennessee
1870 Census:  Lauderdale County, Alabama
1880 Census:  Lauderdale County, Alabama
1900 Census:  Bell County, Texas