(This post was made before I switched this to a Green Family blog, this line is from my Foster side of the family)
The Reeves line has been challenging for me. I have not been able to get very far back with them. This is my Dads mother's father's line. (see ancestry.com for full line)http://www.ancestry.com/ (Foster Family Tree)
I have been able to find out that they were from Kingston, GA which was the Etowah district when they resided there. My Dad found out from my great aunt Odie, before she passed, that some of the Reeves had been stricken with TB in the "early days" so they did not go see them. There was never a relationship with them after the TB outbreak as my Dad did not know his Great Grandfather, even th0ugh he lived until 1960.
I found two death certificates yesterday that seems to confirm this story. Two Reeves, an uncle and a nephew, died of TB in 1922 and 1924. My Grandmother and her sister (my great aunt odie) were born in 1921 and 1927. I guess they just all stayed away.
On the death certificates the burial place for both is Mizpah Methodist Church, in Rome, GA near the Bartow/Floyd County line. I might have just found where the rest of the Reeves are buried!! Will have to plan another field trip to go and find out.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
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