Stella Lee Reaves

1892-1980 · Texas

Born 1892, Milam County, Texas

Died 1980

Father: Joseph Allen Reaves Jr.

Mother: Samantha Caldonia Johnson

Children include Bradford

Stella Lee Reaves was born in Milam County, Texas, on 15 July 1892. She was one of the younger daughters of Joseph Allen "Jack" Reaves, a Confederate veteran, farmer and circuit preacher of the Church of Christ, and Samantha Caldonia "Donia" Johnson. She was two when her youngest sister, Artie Mae, was born on Christmas Day 1894.

Four of the Reaves girls married Cryer brothers. Stella married Luther Thomas Cryer. Her sisters Kendrick Elizabeth, Julia Agnes and Artie Mae married his brothers. When their mother died at Buckholts in 1931, at the home of the youngest, the obituary listed them together: "Mrs LT Cryer, Mrs WR Cryer, Mrs QL Cryer and Mrs W Cryer."

Stella and Luther's children were Irene Elizabeth, Bradford Allen, Edna Lillian, Wade Luther, Nelta Mae and Bennie Truman. The couple later moved to San Angelo. Luther died there in 1970. Stella died at San Angelo on 6 February 1980, aged 87, and is buried beside him at Friendship Cemetery near Davilla, in Milam County, where she was born.

Parents

Samantha Caldonia Johnson 1853-1931 Joseph Allen Reaves Jr. 1834-1923

Children

Bradford Allen Cryer 1910-1973

Sources

Find a Grave memorial 13423122, photograph added by Paula Norris Pierce, 1 August 2012.

Find a Grave memorial 13423111, stone photograph.

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

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

Cameron Herald, 2 April 1931, page 9 (clipping posted to Find a Grave memorial 89383098); Find a Grave memorial 13423122 (stone photograph and a photograph of her posted without a caption)

Texas Department of Health, certificate of death, Bell County, state file no. 89957, 1973; FamilySearch, Texas Deaths 1890-1977, image ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GY14-WKYJ.

Cameron Herald, 2 April 1931, page 9 (clipping posted to Find a Grave memorial 89383098); Find a Grave memorial 13423122 (stone photograph and a photograph of her posted without a caption); Texas certificate of death of Bradford Allen Cryer, Bell County, 1973, state file 89957 (3:1:33SQ-GY14-WKYJ)

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