Father's Parents:
Ichabod Reeves & Martha Harvey Reeves
Mother's Parents:
Asa M. Hodges & Martha Ann Stovall Hodges (info)
Father & Mother:
Father: Samuel Newell Reeves (1816-1891)
Mother: Melvina Hodges Reeves (1830-?)
Children:
#1: Simeon Reeves (1844-1892)
#2: Martha Ellen (1847-1919)
#3: John Rufus (1849-) Photo, Possible Photo of sons John Floyd & Forest Judson, ?, ?, Explanation, John Floyd Reeves, 1918)
#4: Willis Absalom (1851-), Photo with daughter Essie Lee
#5: Francis Wayland (1853-)
#6: Mary Arabella (1855-)
#7: Newell A. Reeves (1858-) Drag Saw Patent: Sketch 1, Sketch 2, Description.
#8: Walter Hodges Reeves (1863-1944)
#9: Emma Augusta (1865-), Photo
#10: Willie (?-?)
Samuel Reeves Family
Samuel & Melvina's Letters
Samuel & Melvina's Census
Dean-Hey Heritage homepage
Samuel Newell and Melvina Reeves
Parents of Simeon Reeves
Father of Lizzie Ellen Reeves Dean
(photo courtesy of John A Reeves)
Samuel Newell Reeves was the son (sixth of seven children) of Ichabod (1770-1840) Reeves and Martha Harvey Reeves (married about 1802). Ichabod died in Morgan County, Alabama. Online genealogies trace Ichabod's Reeves family back for several centuries in England.
Samuel married Melvina Hodges (born about 1830 in Alabama) Reeves on May 25, 1843. Samuel Reeves and Melvina settled in Morgan County, Alabama because they had received a government land grant there. Samuel is listed on a prewar list of slave owners as owning 7 or 9. Apparently, Samuel and Melvina had 10 children; most of them ended up in Texas after the civil war. Simeon was Samuel and Melvina's oldest child and the only Confederate soldier among the Reeves boys. (information from John Reeves)