Reeves, Wiley G.

Summary

Father: Tobias Reeves
Mother: Nancy

Birth: 7 Jul 1822, Tennessee
Birth Source: Headstone

Death: 20 May 1863
Death Source: Headstone

Spouse2: Nancy Smith, m. 29 Jun 1843, Madison County, Illinois

Narrative

Wiley doesn't appear to have had any children. There were some children in his household listed under the name Brown in 1850 by the names of Sarah, Wm, Martha, and Charles. These may be Nancy's children by a previous marriage.

Wiley was a Private in Co. G, 117th Illinois Infantry. He died in the Company Hospital from Pneumonia.

Research Notes

Sources

Birth:          Headstone of Wife Nancy, Reaves Cemetery, Olive Township, Madison Co., Illinois
Marriage1:  Illinois, County Marriage Records, 1800-1940 (Ancestry)
Death:        Headstone of Wife Nancy, Reaves Cemetery, Olive Township, Madison Co., Illinois
                   U.S., Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865 (Ancestry)

1850 Census:  Madison County, Illinois
1860 Census:  Madison County, Illinois