Reeves, Thomas Powell

Summary

Father: Joshua Reeves
Mother: Maria Powell

Birth: 4 Oct 1819, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Birth Source: Death Certificate

Death: 17 May 1911, Indianapolis, Indiana
Death Source: Death Certificate

Spouse1: Anna Maria Smith, m. 1842, Hamilton County, Ohio

Narrative

Children of Thomas Powell Reeves and Anna Maria:

1. Joshua Reeves, b. c1844
2. Charlotte Reeves, b. c1846, m. Charles H. Kruger
3. Isabella Reeves, b. c1847
4. Joseph Robert Reeves, b. c1853
5. Emma Reeves, b. c1854
6. Thomas Powell Reeves, Jr., b. 9 May 1856
7. Frank Reeves, b. c1862
8. Lewis Reeves, b. c1866

The marriage record was recorded among 1842 entries, but no date is given.

The Indianapolis News, 18 May 1911
Thomas Powell Reeves, age ninety-one, formerly a well-known shoe manufacturer, died last night, at his home 3738 North Capitol avenue. He had been suffering from paralysis for about one year and could not talk, but he retained his mental faculties to the time of his death.
Mr. Reeves was born in Philadelphia, October 4, 1819, and had lived in Indianapolis since 1872. When a young man he left Philadelphia and engaged in the manufacture of women's shores at Cincinnati, where he was married, about sixty-five years ago. Later he established a shore factory at Richmond, Ind., where he lived until he came to Indianapolis, where he was engaged in the same business. He had not been in active business for about twenty years. His wife died seven years ago. He leaves five children, Joseph, Thomas, Frank, Louis and Emma Reeves, all of Indianapolis. His sister, who died last February, in Philadelphia, was ninety-six years old.
The funeral will be held at the home, tomorrow afternoon, at 4 o'clock. The Rev. Charles Tinsley will officiate.

Thomas was buried in the Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana.

Death certificate states his father Joshua was born in New Jersey and mother Maria Powell in New York City.

Ann's death certificate states she was born 27 Aug 1822 in Baltimore, Maryland to Wm J. and Eliza Smith. She died 2 Jan 1904 in Indianapolis.

In 1890, Thomas P. Reeves, aged seventy years, submitted a letter to the pension file of Joshua Reeves of Cumberland County, New Jersey stating he lived at 54 Indiana Ave., Indianapolis, Indiana and referred to Joshua as his grandfather.

Research Notes

Sources

Birth:          Death Certificate, Thomas P. Reeves, 1911
                   The Indianapolis News, 18 May 1911
Marriage1:  Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016 - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XD2B-MPL
Death:        Death Certificate, Thomas P. Reeves, 1911
                   The Indianapolis News, 18 May 1911

1850 Census:  Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky - https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M65Z-C6D
1860 Census:  Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZBR-PHR
1870 Census:  Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana
1880 Census:  Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
1900 Census:  Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana - https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9M3-BZY

Death Certificate, Anna M. Reeves, 1904