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Descendants of James Reeves

Generation No. 1

1. JAMES¹ REEVES was born 1801 in Ky ¹, and died December 12, 1871 in Randolph Co., In ². He married RACHAEL SKINNER³ November 11, 1826 in Harrison Twnshp, Darke Co., Oh ^4,⁵, daughter of JAMES SKINNER and ANNA BEARIER.

Notes for JAMES REEVES:

James Reeves was born in 1801 in Kentucky; moved with his father to Warren County, Ohio, in 1811, and to Darke County, Ohio, in 1824. He married Rachel Skinner in 1827, she was born in 1811, in North Carolina and came to Kentucky, and afterward to Seven-Mile Creek, ten miles from Eaton, Preble County, Ohio, and then to Long Prairie, Darke Co., Ohio, six miles north of Paris. Mr. Reeves came to Randolph County, Ind., Jackson Township, May 25, 1832. He said he was going to "play gentleman and hunt", but the second year he entered forty acres, and awhile after, forty more. On this small tract of land he raised his family of eleven children, ten of them growing up to maturity. The ten were all married and seven are living, five in Randolph County, one in Minnesota and one in Kansas. Mr. Reeves died in 1871, seventy years old, on the land he had tilled nearly forty years. He was a Jackson Democrat, but turned Republican, earning the name from his former political associates of "Black Abolitionist". In religion he was a Disciple, in business a farmer, a steady, quiet, estimable, reliable man. His widow is still living, a sprightly, cheerful old lady, active and lively, though so severely afflicted from the effects of paralysis, nearly twenty years ago, as to be nearly deprived of strength. Mrs. Reeves spends her time alternately with her various children in Randolph county. She could tell many quaint and curious tales of the "olden time" when Jackson Township was a wild and howling wilderness, nearly fifty years ago. Mr. Reeves' first entry was November 3, 1834, the S. W. N. E. 22, 21, 15, forty acres; his second entry was made two years later, August 30, 1836. It is an interesting incident that while he was going from home on his trip to Cincinnati for the second entry, a gentleman called at Mr. Reeves' cabin and asked Mrs. Reeves if a certain "forty" in the neighborhood was vacant. "I cannot tell," said she; "my husband is probably by this time in Cincinnati, and if it is not already entered, it will be shortly." The man stared, but said nothing and went his way.

From E. Tucker's History of Randolph County- 1882.

Children of JAMES REEVES and RACHAEL SKINNER are:

2.	i.	JOHN L.² REEVES, b. September 14, 1827, Darke Co., Oh; d. April 07, 1913, Randolph Co., In.
	ii.	UNKNOWN REEVES, b. 1828 ⁶.
3.	iii.	JAMES REEVES, b. 1832, Oh.
4.	iv.	WILLIAM M. REEVES, b. September 19, 1834, Jackson Twnshp, Randolph Co., In.
5.	v.	ANDREW JACKSON (A.J.) REEVES, b. 1837; d. February 08, 1862.
6.	vi.	MELINDA REEVES, b. 1840.
	vii.	SARAH REEVES, b. 1843, In ⁷.
	viii.	ANN REEVES, b. 1845, In⁷.
	ix.	ELISABETH A. REEVES, b. 1848, In.
7.	x.	LEWIS SAMUEL REEVES, b. November 07, 1850, In; d. December 30, 1915.
	xi.	MELISSA REEVES^8,⁹, b. 1853; d. 1929.

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