Reeves, Thomas A.

Summary

Father: Asa Reeves
Mother: Sarah E. Barnes

Birth: 1833, Georgia
Birth Source: 1850 Census

Death: After 1898 but before 1901, Florida
Death Source: Meriwether Vindicator

Spouse1: May E. Lovette, m. 23 Nov 1852, Meriwether County, Georgia, daughter of Judge N. B. Lovette.
Spouse2: Mary Lawson, m. 18 Aug 1862, Meriwether County, Georgia

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Narrative

Children of Thomas Reeves:

1. Mary Lovette Reeves, b. 1856, GA, d. 1901, FL, m. Wilson Wood Moreland, b. 1854, d. 1930. The Morelands were in McIntosh, Marion Co., FL, in 1900. She is buried in the Boardman Cemetery.
2. Virgil Reeves, b. 1859. He was at home in 1880.

Thomas Reeves, age 37, was living in HH 402/402, Jones Mill P.O., Meriwether Co., GA, in 1870. An African-American couple working as a farm hand and housekeeper were shown with him, but his children were not shown. His ten year old son Virgil was in HH 405/405 as a farm hand living with an African-American Reeves family. Thomas Reeves owned $1500/$500 in property in 1870.

Thomas was shown as a widower in 1880 with his son, daughter, son-in-law, and Moreland grandchildren. He was a Justice of the Peace in Meriwether County and a judge in Florida. The obituary of Mary Moreland, published in the textMeriwether Vindicatortext in 1901, identifies her as a daughter of "the late Judge Thomas A. Reeves."

Sources

1850 Meriwether Co., GA, Census.
1870 Meriwether Co., GA, Census.
1880 Meriwether Co., GA, Census.