Reeves, Thomas K.

Summary

Father: Hardy Reeves
Mother: Unknown

Birth: 21 Oct 1793, York County, South Carolina
Birth Source:

Death: before 1840, Fayette County, Georgia
Death Source: Wife is a widow in 1840 census

Spouse1: Ethalinda Reeves

Narrative

Children of Thomas K. and Ethalinda Reeves:

1. Elizabeth Reeves, b. 11 Feb 1819
2. Anderson Bates Reeves, b. 7 Feb 1820, m. Nancy C. Mcright on 31 Dec 1840
3. Rebecca T. Reeves, b. 4 Feb 1821, m. Thomas Henderson on 31 Oct 1840
4. Dempsey J. Reeves, b. 10 Nov 1823, m. Sophronia C. Champin on 30 Jan 1844
5. Wyatt S. Reeves, b. 6 Oct 1827, d. 18 Feb 1885 in Spalding, Georgia, m. Lucy E. Wilson on 2 Nov 1854
6. Pamelia Jennings Reeves, b. 24 Jul 1830
7. Edny B. Reeves, b. 1833, m. Benjamin T. King on 31 Jan 1850
8. Martha C. Reeves, b. c1836, m. R. P. Wesley on 3 Dec 1857

Thomas Reeves served as a private in Captain Walker's Company of the Georgia Militia in the Florida War for which he received a land warrant. It was assigned to Cornelius B. Fisher who received Warrant No. 38.326 for 160 acres in Missouri on 15 Nov 1858. The Second Seminole War was known as the Florida War and occurred 1835 to 1842.

Source for children's dates of birth: Wiley Reeves, His Descendants and Ancestors by Ray Rowland, Published 1996

Sources

1830 Census - Fayette County, Georgia