Joseph Allen Reaves Jr.

1834-1923 · Alabama

Born 1834, Coosa County, Alabama

Died 1923

Father: Joseph Reaves Sr.

Mother: Sarah Kendrick

Children include Stella

Joseph Allen Reaves Jr., called Jack, was born on 5 June 1834 in Coosa County, Alabama. A life sketch written by a great-great-grandson names his parents as Joseph Allen Reaves Sr. and Sarah "Sally" Kendrick, and says he grew up near Lauderdale in Alabama, one of five children.

He came to Texas before the Civil War. When Texas joined the Confederacy he enlisted in Company E of the 2nd Texas Infantry, and his military stone at Friendship Cemetery reads "J. A. Reaves, Co. E, 2 Tex. Inf., C.S.A."

On 18 January 1871, at Milam in Sabine County, he married Samantha Caldonia "Donia" Johnson, a Louisiana girl nineteen years younger. They farmed in Milam County and had thirteen children. Joseph also rode as a circuit preacher of the Church of Christ, filling in at congregations near home that had no regular minister. Four of his daughters, Stella Lee among them, married sons of Arthur Cryer.

A family photograph taken on Christmas Eve 1894 shows Jack, with a small child on his knee, among Donia and their children, when she was carrying their last daughter, Artie Mae, born the next day. Another shows the old couple standing together, Jack with a cane. He died at Buckholts on 29 November 1923, aged 89, and is buried at Friendship Cemetery.

Parents

Joseph Reaves Sr. 1803-1864 Sarah Kendrick 1803-1880

Children

Stella Lee Reaves 1892-1980

Sources

Find a Grave memorial 89382811, photograph added by Ronald C. Brewer, 18 January 2020.

Find a Grave memorial 89383098, photograph captioned "JosephAllen Reaves and his wife Samantha Caldonia DONIA Johnson Reaves," added by Paula Norris Pierce, 2012.

Find a Grave memorial 89382811, stone photograph.

Cameron Herald, Cameron, Texas, 2 April 1931, page 9; clipping posted to Find a Grave memorial 89383098.

Find a Grave memorial 89383098, stone photograph.

Find a Grave memorial 89382811 (Confederate stone, double stone, captioned family photographs, and a life sketch by contributor 48104028); Cameron Herald, 2 April 1931, page 9

Texas State Board of Health, standard certificate of death, Milam County, filed 4 December 1923; FamilySearch, Texas Deaths 1890-1977, image ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9Y14-SYD7.

Find a Grave memorial 89382811 (Confederate stone, double stone, captioned family photographs, and a life sketch by contributor 48104028); Cameron Herald, 2 April 1931, page 9; Texas certificate of death, Milam County, 1923, filed 4 December 1923 (FamilySearch image 3:1:33S7-9Y14-SYD7, record 1:1:K3ZQ-PBH)

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