Reeves, William Edwin

Summary

Father: William White Reeves
Mother: Jane

Birth: c1842, New York
Birth Source: Census

Death: 14 Feb 1881
Death Source: Probate records

Spouse1:

Narrative

Estate papers show William died intestate on 14 Feb 1881. Jane Reeves, probably mother, was made administratrix with sister Sarah A. and Matilda L. Reeves also in bond.

The Evening Post, 21 Feb 1881
The Death of William E. Reeves.
There will be no inquest in the case of William E. Reeves, the young man who died in Lafayette on Wednesday in consequence of injuries sustained in the accident to the Somerville Express on the New Jersey Central Railroad at Communipaw on the 10th instant, County Physician Converse said this morning that the reason of this is that neither Dr. Lampson, who attended the sufferer, nor the undertaker who buried him, sent him any notification of the death. The body was taken to Elizabeth, and there buried. As a coroner cannot act without having bis jury view the body, no inquest can be held. The only course now to pursue is to order an investigation by a justice of the peace. Dr. Converse said that when proper notice of the death has been sent to him, he will probably have such an investigation made. Reeves was the only one of the eight persons injured by the accident who sustained fatal injuries.

Research Notes

Sources

1850 Census:  New York Ward 7 District 2, New York County, New York
1860 Census:  Brooklyn Ward 13 District 2, Kings County, New York
1870 Census:  Union, Union County, New Jersey
1880 Census:  Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey

Union County, New Jersey Unrecorded Estate Papers, Case 52, No. 3125, William E. Reeves
The Evening Post, 21 Feb 1881