Reeves, Sarah Clementine

Summary

Father: Reeves, George Washington
Mother: Kimberling, Mary Jane

Birth: 26 October, 1854, in Franklin County, Arkansas
Birth Source: Family information of the Green-Jenkins family

Death: before May, 1889, in Hutton Township, Coles County, Illinois
Death Source: Marriage record of Frank Green, Coles Co., IL, May 1889

Spouse1: Carroll, Josiah Herrick
Spouse2: Green, Frank

Narrative

Sarah Clementine Reeves was known as Clementine or Clem in the family and was born 26 October, 1854, in Franklin County, Arkansas. Clem's mother died when she was an infant, but Clem inherited a small piece of land with her sisters that had belonged to her grandfather, Joseph Kimberling.
Her family having moved back to Illinois, most likely during the Civil War, Clem married Josiah Herrick "Doc" Carroll 16 December, 1869, in Fayette County, Illinois. To this marriage was born one daughter, Mary Viola Carroll.
Children of Josiah Herrick Carroll and Sarah Clementine Reeves:

1. Mary Viola Carroll b. 13 April, 1871 m. Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Andrews

"Doc" Carroll died in 1872, and Clem left infant daughter Mary with her Carroll grandmother and other paternal relations on their farm. During this time Clem worked as a cook in a restaurant in Vandalia, Illinois, which was several miles away from the Carroll farm. Mary was raised by her Carroll relations as Clem's second husband didn't wish Mary to live with them.
Subsequently Clem married Frank Green on 21 August, 1873 in Vandalia, Illinois, with whom she had four children:
Children of Frank Green and Sarah Clementine Reeves:

1. Effie Green b. 1874 d. 1878
2. John Green b. 1876 d. 1878
3. Iva Green b. 1878 m. James Emery Jenkins
4. Charles Green b. 1880

Clem died before May, 1889, probably in Hutton Township, Coles County, Illinois. Her second husband, Frank Green, remarried in Coles County, Illinois, at that time.

Research Notes

While Sarah Clementine Reeves can be found in census, probate and marriage records, a great deal of what is known about her was passed down through both the Carroll-Andrews and Green-Jenkins families of her descendants.

Sources

US Federal Census 1860 Franklin County, Arkansas
US Federal Census 1870 Fayette County, Illinois
US Federal Census 1880 Fayette County, Illinois
Probate and land records of Franklin County, Arkansas
Marriage records of Fayette County, Illinois
Family tradition passed down through the family of Elva Winona Andrews Henderson
Family tradition passed down through the family of Iva Green Jenkins
"Ancestry Of Eliza Jane Reeves, 1819-1884" by Virginia Howell, Middle Tennessee Journal Of Genealogy And History, Vol. 9 #1, Summer 1995, pp.33-35