Reeves, Mary "Polly"

Summary

Father: John Reeves
Mother: Mary Gwinn

Birth: 23 Dec 1787¹, Orange County, North Carolina
Birth Source: Will of John Reeves and Gravestone for date

Death: 27 Mar 1885, Orange County, North Carolina
Death Source: Gravestone at Archibald Andrews Cemetery aka the Justice Plantation, Bingham Township

Spouse1: Archibald Andrews, m. 8 Jan 1811 in Orange County, North Carolina

Narrative

Children of Archibald Andrews & Mary "Polly" Reeves:

1. Sarah Andrews, b. abt. 1812, Orange Co., NC
2. Arena "Reany" Andrews, b. Nov. 13, 1813, Orange Co., NC; d. July 14, 1903, Orange Co., NC; m. Ransom Cates
3. John Andrews, b. abt. 1816, Orange Co., NC; m. Harriett A. E. Hopson
4. Henry Andrews, b. Aug. 15, 1818, Orange Co., NC; d. Feb. 10, 1881, Orange Co., NC; m. Mary J. Durham, daughter of Lysias Durham & Sarah Reeves on Mar. 15, 1841
5. Chesley Andrews, b. Jan. 19, 1820, Orange Co., NC; d. Feb. 16, 1916, Orange Co., NC; m1 Elizabeth Temple c1841; m2 Martha Ann Freeland on Oct. 24, 1864
6. Calvin Andrews, b. abt. 1822, d. 1866, Orange Co., NC
7. Martha Andrews, b. Mar. 1825, d. 1907, Orange Co., NC; m. John Dodson
8. Ann Andrews, b. abt. 1826, Orange Co., NC; d. aft. 1880; never married
9. James Irvin Andrews, b. Apr. 6, 1828, d. Oct. 19, 1906, Orange Co., NC; m. Frances Ann Barbee
10. Atlas Jackson Andrews, b. 1832, Orange Co., NC; d. 1863 in the Civil War
11. Mary Andrews, b. 1833, d. 1898, Orange Co., NC
12. Elizabeth "Lizzie" Andrews, b. abt. 1835, Orange Co., NC; m. Thomas J. Turner

From the research of - The Cheek Family of Alleghany County, NC at http://www.moonzstuff.com/andrews/archibald1788.html.

Research Notes

¹Although the date of birth of Mary "Polly" Reeves Andrews is listed as 23 Dec 1787 in countless websites, this date could not possibly be correct. The only photo at cemetery site Findagrave is a stone of modern placement and may have been subject to faulty transcription of the original gravestone inscription. When census records for the family of Archibald and Polly Andrews are reviewed, in every census beginning in 1820, her date of birth estimated is after 1790. The 1850 census when individuals in the household are listed, Polly's age was 53 or 1797. In subsequent census through the rest of her life her age is approximately the same, always born after 1790.

Sources

1846 Will of John Reeves
Marriages of Orange County, North Carolina, 1779-1868 (Ancestry)
1820 Census:   Orange County, North Carolina
1830 Census:   Orange County, North Carolina
1840 Census:   Southern Division, Orange County, North Carolina
1850 Census:   District 1, Orange County, North Carolina
1860 Census:   South Side of the NC Rr, Orange County, North Carolina
1870 Census:   Bingham, Orange County, North Carolina
1880 Census:   Bingham, Orange County, North Carolina