Reeves Family Bible, NY/OH/MI
Deaths:
Walter Reeves dide May the 9, 1843 [Walter died in Ohio, probably in Portage County]
Hyrum Cilvanis Reeves died Dec. the 6, 1845 [Could also be spelled Hiram Silvanus Reeves. To date I have been able to discover the relationship of this person to the rest of the family]
S. Wheeler Bowers ... [rest of page is missing. Samuel Wheeler Bowers died Apr. 1, 1850 in Michigan]
Marriages:
Walter and Martha was mared December 31, 1815 by the Rev. R. Wolsey. [Walter F. Reeves and Martha Gee were married in Colchester, Delaware County, NY]
Ann Elizabeth was maried Novemeber 2, 18... [rest of line is torn away. I have not been able to identify Ann or her relationship to the rest of the family]
Samuel W. and Martha Bowres was marred Oct. 8th, 1844 by Rev. Lewis. [They were married in Portage County, Ohio and moved to Michigan within the next year. Martha later married Heth P. Kinch, husband number 3, Jan. 15, 1852]
Wm Reeves and Lucy Jane Miller was marred Feb. 6th 1845. [William and Lucy were married in Trumbull County, Ohio. They had 3 children, George, Frances, and Martha. William worked as a carpenter in Gratiot County, Mich., where he died Nov. 27, 1890]
Births:
Walter Reeves was born May the 5, 1791.
Martha Gee was born August tenth, 1799.
Samuel R. Reeves was born July 22, 1818.
William Reeves was born July 11, 1821.
[rest of page is missing]
Births, p. 2:
James R. Reeves was born October 4, 1830.
Chancy P. Reeves was born August 6, 18.. [1832. A.k.a., Chauncey, Chauncy, or Chancey. Last of the children born in NY. The rest were born in Portage County, Ohio]
Jessy B. Reeves was born August 26, 18 ... [1834] [Jesse died in 1908]
Mary Jane was born Nov. ... [rest of page is torn away. Mary Jane was Nov. 28, 1836. She married Jerome Burns and lived most of her life in Michigan, where she died in 1920]
[The final entry in the births, which was torn away, was more than likely for my ancestor, Walter Francis "Frank" Reeves, the baby of the family. He was born Oct. 13, 1838 in Rootstown, Portage County, Ohio. He married Lydia Melissa Upham in Michigan, Aug. 29, 1861. Walter died in Centralia, Wash., Dec. 11, 1916].
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