The Ancestors and Cousins of Tracy Lynn DeVault

Samuel Castleman "Sam" Scales^1,2,3

M, #10451, b. 14 October 1940, d. 20 June 1997

Parents

Father	Edward Reeves Scales (b. 25 December 1911, d. 27 April 2003)
Mother	Isabelle Castleman (b. 3 April 1913, d. 11 February 1994)

Pedigree Link

Family: Barbara Unknown

Daughter	Martha Scales
Daughter	Lindsey Scales
Daughter	Samantha Scales

BASIC FACTS

Samuel Castleman "Sam" Scales was born on 14 October 1940 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., Kentucky.^4,5 He died on 20 June 1997, at age 56.^2,3,4

Samuel Castleman "Sam" Scales had reference number 10719. He resided in Birmingham, Jefferson Co., Alabama; moved to Central Florida (1972.)⁶ His Social Security Number was Issued: Alabama.⁴ He was a Sales manager for Hughes Supply Incorporated.⁵ Vietnam War, U.S. Army.⁵ OBITUARY - Orlando Sentinel, The (FL), Sunday, June 22, 1997, Edition: METRO, Page: B4

Deceased Name: SAMUEL C. SCALES
56, Smokerise Boulevard, Longwood, died Friday, June 20. Mr. Scales was a sales manager for Hughes Supply Inc. Born in Louisville, Ky., he moved to Central Florida in 1972. He was Episcopalian and a member of Rio Pinar Country Club. He was also an Army veteran of the Vietnam War. Survivors: wife, Barbara; daughters, Martha, Lindsey, Samantha, all of Longwood; father and stepmother, Edward R. and Lois, Sarasota; brother, Joseph H., Grant; sisters, Margaret Davis, Birmingham, Ala., Elizabeth Green, New Smyrna Beach; stepbrother, Richard Hazen, Nokomis. Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home, Altamonte Springs.

Citations

[S5329] Genealogy prepared by Bitsy (McLellan) McFarland, Source Medium: Book
[S9960] Obituary - Edward Reeves Scales
[S10517] Obituary - Isabelle (Castleman) Scales-Pashley
[S12399] Social Security Death Index, Source Medium: Book
[S11853] Obituary - Samuel Castleman "Sam" Scales
[S5443] Genealogy prepared by Cathy (Crabtree) Cook, Source Medium: Book

Family Explorer

William Prentice Reeves^1,2

M, #10452, b. 19 April 1876, d. 8 December 1942

Parents

Father	Isaac Edward Reeves (b. 10 May 1842, d. 31 January 1899)
Mother	Mary Malinda Dosser (b. 6 October 1849, d. 12 September 1931)

Pedigree Link

Family: Lillian Foster Wallace (b. 24 December 1878, d. 27 August 1947)

Son	William Prentice "Prentice" Reeves, Jr.+ (b. 30 September 1909, d. June 1975)

BASIC FACTS

William Prentice Reeves was born on 19 April 1876 in Tennessee.^1,2 He and Lillian Foster Wallace were married on 17 October 1906.² He died on 8 December 1942, at age 66, in Knoxville, Knox Co., Tennessee.^2,3

William Prentice Reeves had reference number 10720.

Citations

[S5329] Genealogy prepared by Bitsy (McLellan) McFarland, Source Medium: Book
[S2798] Book: Ancestral Sketches by LeRoy Reeves and the Family of Edward Reeves and Jane Melvin by Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins
[S4019] Death Records - Tennessee "Tennessee Deaths and Burials Index 1874 - 1955 (Ancestry.com)

Family Explorer

Lillian Foster Wallace^1,2,3

F, #10453, b. 24 December 1878, d. 27 August 1947

Parents

Father	Jesse Albert Wallace
Mother	Mary Blair "Mollie" Tadlock

Pedigree Link

Family: William Prentice Reeves (b. 19 April 1876, d. 8 December 1942)

Son	William Prentice "Prentice" Reeves, Jr.+ (b. 30 September 1909, d. June 1975)

BASIC FACTS

Lillian Foster Wallace was born on 24 December 1878 in Jefferson Co., Tennessee.⁴ She was born on 24 December 1878 in Bristol, Sullivan Co., Tennessee.^5,2 She and William Prentice Reeves were married on 17 October 1906.² She died on 27 August 1947, at age 68, in Knoxville, Knox Co., Tennessee.^2,4 She was buried in Highland Memorial Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox Co., Tennessee.⁴

Lillian Foster Wallace had reference number 10721. She resided in of Bristol, Bristol City Co., Virginia.⁶

Citations

[S5329] Genealogy prepared by Bitsy (McLellan) McFarland, Source Medium: Book
[S2798] Book: Ancestral Sketches by LeRoy Reeves and the Family of Edward Reeves and Jane Melvin by Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins
[S8494] Haws Family Papers (1892 - 1967), University of South Carolina, South Carolininana Library, Manuscript Division (internet)
[S4019] Death Records - Tennessee "Tennessee Deaths and Burials Index 1874 - 1955 (Ancestry.com)
[S5443] Genealogy prepared by Cathy (Crabtree) Cook, Source Medium: Book
[S5651] Genealogy prepared by Dan DeVault, Source Medium: Book

Family Explorer

Kathleen Reeves¹

F, #10454, b. 11 August 1878, d. 4 October 1960

Parents

Father	Isaac Edward Reeves (b. 10 May 1842, d. 31 January 1899)
Mother	Mary Malinda Dosser (b. 6 October 1849, d. 12 September 1931)

Pedigree Link

Family: Samuel Nathan Fenree Haws (b. 28 January 1879, d. 7 March 1972)

Daughter	Rowena Elizabeth "Elizabeth" Haws (b. 29 March 1905, d. 26 October 2000)
Daughter	Kathleen Reeves Haws+ (b. 3 April 1909, d. 26 May 1992)
Daughter	Mary Claire Haws (b. 6 February 1911, d. 16 May 2000)
Daughter	Helen Harrison Haws+ (b. 18 April 1918, d. 26 May 1982)

BASIC FACTS

Kathleen Reeves was born on 11 August 1878 in Jonesboro, Washington Co., Tennessee.¹ She was born in August 1879.^2,3,4 She and Samuel Nathan Fenree Haws were married on 22 June 1904 in Bristol, Sullivan Co., Tennessee.¹ She died on 4 October 1960, at age 82, in Walterboro, Colleton Co., South Carolina.¹ She was buried in Live Oak Cemetery, Walterboro, Colleton Co., South Carolina.⁵

Kathleen Reeves was also known as Katherine Reeves.² She had reference number 10722. She resided in near Charleston, South Carolina.⁶ GRAVE MARKER

HAWS
SAMUEL NATHAN HAWS
JAN. 28, 1879 -- MAR. 7, 1972
WIFE
KATHLEEN REEVES HAWS
AUG. 11, 1878 -- OCT. 4, 1960. NEWSPAPER ARTICLE - The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Sullivan Co., Tennessee, March 9, 1923

Additional Personals
Mr. and Mrs. S. N. Haws are spending the day in Johnson City.

Citations

[S6555] Genealogy prepared by Lawrence G. Hardin (WFT V11T1543)
[S5329] Genealogy prepared by Bitsy (McLellan) McFarland, Source Medium: Book
[S6011] Genealogy prepared by George E. Newport (WFT V17T1718)
[S2798] Book: Ancestral Sketches by LeRoy Reeves and the Family of Edward Reeves and Jane Melvin by Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins
[S4980] Find A Grave (Internet), Source Medium: Book
[S5651] Genealogy prepared by Dan DeVault, Source Medium: Book

Family Explorer

Samuel Nathan Fenree Haws^1,2,3

M, #10455, b. 28 January 1879, d. 7 March 1972

Parents

Father	James Harrison Haws (b. 13 November 1846, d. 27 March 1927)
Mother	Rowena Elizabeth Peoples (b. 26 March 1852, d. 1 July 1936)

Pedigree Link

Family: Kathleen Reeves (b. 11 August 1878, d. 4 October 1960)

Daughter	Rowena Elizabeth "Elizabeth" Haws (b. 29 March 1905, d. 26 October 2000)
Daughter	Kathleen Reeves Haws+ (b. 3 April 1909, d. 26 May 1992)
Daughter	Mary Claire Haws (b. 6 February 1911, d. 16 May 2000)
Daughter	Helen Harrison Haws+ (b. 18 April 1918, d. 26 May 1982)

BASIC FACTS

Samuel Nathan Fenree Haws was born on 28 January 1879 in Kingsport, Sullivan Co., Tennessee.² He was born on 28 June 1879 in Kingsport, Sullivan Co., Tennessee.⁴ He and Kathleen Reeves were married on 22 June 1904 in Bristol, Sullivan Co., Tennessee.² He died on 7 March 1972, at age 93, in Walterboro, Colleton Co., South Carolina. He died on 16 June 1972, at age 93, in Walterboro, Colleton Co., South Carolina.⁴ He was buried in Live Oak Cemetery, Walterboro, Colleton Co., South Carolina.⁵

Samuel Nathan Fenree Haws had reference number 10723. His Social Security Number was 251-24-9083, issued South Carolina.⁶ He resided in Saint Matthews, South Carolina (abt 1905); Walterboro, Colleton Co., South Carolina.^6,4 He was an Office manager for the Government Crop Loans program (March 1933); Lumberman.^4,7 He was educated Graduate of Columbian College (later George Washington University), Washington, District of Columbia (Class of 1900.)⁷ Kathleen Reeves Hardin says that originally his name was intended to be Samuel Nathaniel Haws, but that his mother kept saying "Samuel Nathaniel" and decided to eliminate the rhyme by christening him Samuel Nathan.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Samuel Nathan Haws was born on 28 June 1879 in Tennessee. His father was a farmer near Kingsport, Tennessee. hroughout Samuel Haws’ life he invested in land and stocks, ran lumber companies, and farmed. He owned lumber tracts just outside Walterboro, South Carolina; Johnson City, Tennessee; and Kingsport, Tennessee.
He married Kathleen Reeves on 22 June 1904. Her family home was Wheatland plantation in Washington County, Tennessee. She graduated from Jonesboro [Tennessee] High School on 23 May 1895 and attended Peabody Normal College. She worked as a teacher prior to their marriage, and in April 1921 she was appointed to the Kingsport [Tennessee] Board of Education.
Following their marriage, the couple moved to St. Matthews, South Carolina, where Samuel Haws practiced law for a number of years. In 1913 he bought a tract of land near Kingsport, Tennessee, for use in his lumber business. The following year, he financed the building of a railroad siding for use in these endeavors. By 1917 he had moved his family to a 2,740-acre land tract near Stokes, South Carolina (just north of Walterboro). This land was used in his lumber operation, but he also farmed and raised livestock on it. Over the next several years, Haws frequently traveled between Walterboro and his various business interests in Tennessee.
From 1924 to 1926 the family lived in Jackson Heights, New York. During this time, Haws’ daughters attended Camp Norchunkaw in Queens, New York. The family moved back south but returned in 1933 when Haws became the office manager for the Government Crop Loans program.
He was associated with the Haws-Harmon Lumber Company (Johnson City and Kingsport, Tennessee), the S.N. Haws Wholesale Lumber (Johnson City, Tennessee), the Walterboro Lumber Company (Walterboro, South Carolina), the Holston Lumber Corporation (Kingsport, Tennessee), and the Palmetto Corporation (of which he was principal stockholder).
In addition, he was on the board of directors for the First National Bank of Walterboro and the Walterboro Press & Standard newspaper.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE - Florence Morning News (Florence, South Carolina); Monday, 12 October, 1952; page 2A column 2; (Ancestry.com)

South Carolina Man In Class Reunion
Morning News Bureau
WASHINGTON -- Oct. 11 -- Samuel Haws, a lumberman from S. C., is one of the five surviving members of the class of 1900 at George Washington University, who had their first reunion at the university here this week.
This is a full attendance of the surviving members out of the 12 who composed the class of fifty-two years ago.
Miss Pearl E. Thonssen of Washington, retired assistant principal of Western High School was the only woman present. The four men had not met since they graduated from what was then Columbian College.
The quartet were Brig. Gen.. H. C. Coburn, U. S. A., retired; Hubert B. Fuller, a lawyer of Cleveland; William D. Serrett of Washington, and Haws.

DEATH NOTICE - Florence Morning News (Florence, South Carolina); March 9, 1972; page 2A column 2; (Ancestry.com)

Other S. C. Deaths
Samuel N. Haws, Walterboro

GRAVE MARKER

HAWS
SAMUEL NATHAN HAWS
JAN. 28, 1879 -- MAR. 7, 1972
WIFE
KATHLEEN REEVES HAWS
AUG. 11, 1878 -- OCT. 4, 1960. NEWSPAPER ARTICLE - The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Sullivan Co., Tennessee, March 9, 1923

Additional Personals
Mr. and Mrs. S. N. Haws are spending the day in Johnson City.

Citations

[S5329] Genealogy prepared by Bitsy (McLellan) McFarland, Source Medium: Book
[S6555] Genealogy prepared by Lawrence G. Hardin (WFT V11T1543)
[S2798] Book: Ancestral Sketches by LeRoy Reeves and the Family of Edward Reeves and Jane Melvin by Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins
[S8494] Haws Family Papers (1892 - 1967), University of South Carolina, South Carolininana Library, Manuscript Division (internet)
[S4980] Find A Grave (Internet), Source Medium: Book
[S12398] Social Security Death Index, Source Medium: Book
[S9185] Newspaper Article - Florence Morning News (Florence, South Carolina); Monday, 12 October, 1952; page 2A column 2; (Ancestry.com)

Family Explorer

Rowena Elizabeth "Elizabeth" Haws¹

F, #10456, b. 29 March 1905, d. 26 October 2000

Parents

Father	Samuel Nathan Fenree Haws (b. 28 January 1879, d. 7 March 1972)
Mother	Kathleen Reeves (b. 11 August 1878, d. 4 October 1960)

Pedigree Link

BASIC FACTS

Rowena Elizabeth "Elizabeth" Haws was born on 29 March 1905 in Bristol, Sullivan Co., Tennessee.^2,3,4 She and William Perry Murphy were married on 25 April 1935 in Walterboro, Colleton Co., South Carolina.^2,1 She died on 26 October 2000, at age 95, in Walterboro, Colleton Co., South Carolina.^3,4 She was buried in Live Oak Cemetery, Walterboro, Colleton Co., South Carolina.⁵

Rowena Elizabeth "Elizabeth" Haws was also known as Elizabeth Ann Haws.^6,7 She had reference number 10724. Her Social Security Number was 249-54-2679 (issued South Carolina.)³ She resided in Walterboro, Colleton Co., South Carolina.³ She was educated Graduate of Cornell University.⁴ She was a School teacher (obituary.)⁴ OBITUARY - Post & Courier, Charleston, SC; Friday, October 27, 2000; page B-3:
MURPHY, Elizabeth Haws
WALTERBORO - Elizabeth Haws Murphy, 95, a retired school teacher, died Thursday at the Colleton Place.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM Sunday at the Graveside in Live Oak Cemetery, conducted by Rev. Lee Cothran and directed by THE FRED PARKER FUNERAL HOME.
Mrs. Murphy was born March 29, 1905 in Bristol, TN, a daughter of the late Samuel Nathan Haws and Kathleen Reeves Haws. She was a member of Bethel United Methodist Church and the D.A.R. She was a graduate of Cornell University. She was the the widow of William Perry Murphy.
Surviving are: 3 nieces, Carol R. Simmons of Walterboro, Kathleen Harwood of Ridgeway and Helen McDowell of Irmo and a nephew, Lawrence G. Hardin of Columbia.
Memorials may be made to Bethel United methodist Church, P.O. Box407, Walterboro, SC 29488.
Visitation will be held from 6:00 until 8:00 PM Saturday at the residence of Carol Simmons, 3 Dogwood Lane, Walterboro, SC.

GRAVE MARKER

MURPHY
WILLIAM PERRY MURPHY
DEC. 30, 1892 - NOV. 30, 1972
WIFE
ELIZABETH HAWS MURPHY
MAR. 29, 1905 - OCT. 26, 2000. She and William Perry Murphy had children in No Children.⁸

Citations

[S6555] Genealogy prepared by Lawrence G. Hardin (WFT V11T1543)
[S2798] Book: Ancestral Sketches by LeRoy Reeves and the Family of Edward Reeves and Jane Melvin by Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins
[S12398] Social Security Death Index, Source Medium: Book
[S11781] Obituary - Rowena Elizabeth (Haws) Murphy
[S4980] Find A Grave (Internet), Source Medium: Book
[S5329] Genealogy prepared by Bitsy (McLellan) McFarland, Source Medium: Book
[S5443] Genealogy prepared by Cathy (Crabtree) Cook, Source Medium: Book
[S4865] Email from Willie Hardin Reeves Bivins dated September 18, 2001

Family Explorer

Anna Claire Reeves^1,2

F, #10457, b. 23 April 1881, d. 27 December 1975

Parents

Father	Isaac Edward Reeves (b. 10 May 1842, d. 31 January 1899)
Mother	Mary Malinda Dosser (b. 6 October 1849, d. 12 September 1931)

Pedigree Link

BASIC FACTS

Anna Claire Reeves was born on 23 April 1881 in Jonesboro, Washington Co., Tennessee.² She was born in August 1881.³ She died on 27 December 1975, at age 94, in Knoxville, Knox, Co., Tennessee.² She was buried in Old Jonesborough Cemetery, Jonesborough, Washington Co., Tennessee.⁴ She was buried on 29 December 1975 in Old Jonesboro Cemetery, Jonesboro, Washington Co., Tennessee; services conducted at 2:00 p.m. by Rev. E. E. Wiley.²

Anna Claire Reeves had reference number 10725. She was affiliated with Methodist.² She resided in Knoxville, Knox Co., Tennessee (1965); Walterboro, Colleton Co., South Carolina, for several years at the home of her sister, Mrs. Sam N. Haws, until Mrs. Haws death in 1960.^2,5,6 She was a Business woman in Knoxville, Tennessee.⁷ Her Social Security Number was 413-14-3465, issued Tennessee.⁵ OBITUARY - The Knoxville News Sentinel (TN), December 28, 1875, page B&, Col. 4

REEVES, MISS ANNA C. - age 94, died Saturday evening Shanondale Health Care Center. She was a member of Muncey Memorial Methodist Church, Johnson City, Tenn. Survivors: nephews, Hugh D. Faust, Jr., Knoxville, Charles Faust, Jackson, Mich. Funeral arrangements incomplete. Mann Mortuary, Bearden, In charge.

GRAVE MARKER

ANNA CLAIRE
REEVES
1881 - 1976.

Citations

[S5329] Genealogy prepared by Bitsy (McLellan) McFarland, Source Medium: Book
[S6555] Genealogy prepared by Lawrence G. Hardin (WFT V11T1543)
[S6011] Genealogy prepared by George E. Newport (WFT V17T1718)
[S4980] Find A Grave (Internet), Source Medium: Book
[S12398] Social Security Death Index, Source Medium: Book
[S5651] Genealogy prepared by Dan DeVault, Source Medium: Book
[S2798] Book: Ancestral Sketches by LeRoy Reeves and the Family of Edward Reeves and Jane Melvin by Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins

Family Explorer

Frances Nell "Fran" Reeves^1,2

F, #10458, b. 30 May 1883, d. 14 May 1975

Parents

Father	Isaac Edward Reeves (b. 10 May 1842, d. 31 January 1899)
Mother	Mary Malinda Dosser (b. 6 October 1849, d. 12 September 1931)

Pedigree Link

Family: Hugh Dulaney Faust (b. 11 June 1878, d. 26 November 1938)

Son	Hugh Dulaney Faust, Jr.+ (b. 5 August 1908, d. 29 September 1998)
Son	Charles Lynn Faust+ (b. 10 September 1911, d. 2 February 1982)

BASIC FACTS

Frances Nell "Fran" Reeves was born on 30 May 1883 in Jonesborough, Washington Co., Tennessee.^3,4,5 She and Hugh Dulaney Faust were married on 16 October 1907.⁴ She died on 14 May 1975, at age 91, in Knoxville, Knox Co., Tennessee.^4,6,5 She was buried in Highland Memorial Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox Co., Tennessee.⁷

Frances Nell "Fran" Reeves had reference number 10726. She resided in Knoxville, Knox Co., Tennessee; Walterboro, South Carolina, for several years at the home of her sister, Mrs. Sam N. Haws, until Mrs. Haws death in 1960.⁸ Her Social Security Number was 408-86-0708 (issued Tennessee.)⁹ She was educated Attended Randolph-Macon College; graduated from Sullins College, Bristol, Sullivan Co., Tennessee.⁵ The following was written by Willie Reeves (Hardin) Bivins about her mother, Myra Gaines (Reeves) Hardin, and her mother's cousins, Frances Nell "Fran" (Reeves) Faust and Anna Claire Reeves:

"In 1969 we visited Frances Nell Reeves Faust and her sister Anna Clair Reeves who lived together in Knoxville. I wrote in an account of that trip to East Tennessee:

"Mother had never met her cousin Fran, and had seen her cousin
Anna only once when both were very young. She and Anna had been
corresponding for years and were most eager to meet again. . . . As the
three of them sat and visited I suddenly realized I had never before seen
three people all in a row with cataract glasses! They are in the same line
that could be called the 'Cataract Line' most of Mother's relatives through
the Miller-Reeves line have that problem."

In later years we used contact lenses and more recently people have implants. But when Mother had her surgery, only cataract glasses were available. In our own family, all four of my children and I have had early-onset cataracts. The youngest has not needed surgery yet; the other three and I had the surgeries when we were from 40 to 50 years old."

OBITUARY - The Knoxville News Sentinel (TN), May 15, 1975, page B5, Col 2

Mrs. Hugh Faust Dies at 91
Mrs. Hugh D. (Frances Nell Reeves) Faust, 91, whose Knoxville son and his family have large coal and timber holding in this area, died Wednesday afternoon at Shannondale Health Care Center.
She was the widow of a longtime secretary-manager of the present Tennessee Valley Fair. It was formerly called the East Tennessee Division Fair.
Mr. Faust, at one time, was an extensive real estate holder. He was active in Republican circles, and served as Knox County direct Representive in the State Legislature. He died in 1939.
Taught School
Hugh D. Faust Jr. is manager of Emory River Land Co. and has various land, coal and timber interests. His wife, the former Emily Mahan, is the daughter of the late E.C. Mahan, one of the region's leading coal operators. He was a football player at UT and later served as an assistant coach and scout for UT.
A native of Jonesboro, Mrs. Faust attended Randolph-Macon College. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.P. Reeves. The family moved to Bristol and she graduated from Sullins College there. She taught school for several years before her marriage and moved to Knoxville.
Lived in Michigan
Mrs. Faust was largely absent from Knoxville for years following her husband's death. Their home had been in Island Home Park. After the death of the first wife of another son, Charles, Jackson, Mich., she spent five years at this Michigan home, helping with the little daughter, Lynn.
For several years Mrs. Faust and her sister, Miss Anna Reeves, spent much time with their widowed sister, Mrs. Hugh Scales at the latter's winter home in Venice, Fla., and summer home on the Michigan Upper Peninsula. The late Mrs. Sam Haws, Walterboro, S.C. was another sister and the late Buddie Reeves, a brother.
Popular With Parents
Upon her return to Knoxville in later years, Mrs. Faust enjoyed baby-sitting with youngsters of her Seqouyah Hills neighborhood. She was popular with young parents. She and Miss Reeves lived together in a Sequoyah Village apartment at 3727 Taliluna Ave.
Mrs. Faust was a member of Second Presbyterian Church.
She also leaves four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Mann's with burial at Highland Memorial Cemetery.

Note: Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Reeves, mentioned in the above obituary, were Fran's paternal grandparents, not her parents.

GRAVE MARKER

FRANCES R. FAUST
MAY 30, 1883
MAY 14, 1975.

Citations

[S5329] Genealogy prepared by Bitsy (McLellan) McFarland, Source Medium: Book
[S6555] Genealogy prepared by Lawrence G. Hardin (WFT V11T1543)
[S6011] Genealogy prepared by George E. Newport (WFT V17T1718)
[S2798] Book: Ancestral Sketches by LeRoy Reeves and the Family of Edward Reeves and Jane Melvin by Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins
[S10168] Obituary - Frances Nell "Fran" (Reeves) Faust
[S4023] Death Records - Tennessee, Tennessee State Archives (Internet), Source Medium: Book
[S4980] Find A Grave (Internet), Source Medium: Book
[S12398] Social Security Death Index, Source Medium: Book
[S2858] California Birth/Death Records (Internet)

Family Explorer

Hugh Dulaney Faust^1,2

M, #10459, b. 11 June 1878, d. 26 November 1938

Parents

Father	Richard Dulaney Faust
Mother	Mary Mullins

Pedigree Link

Family: Frances Nell "Fran" Reeves (b. 30 May 1883, d. 14 May 1975)

Son	Hugh Dulaney Faust, Jr.+ (b. 5 August 1908, d. 29 September 1998)
Son	Charles Lynn Faust+ (b. 10 September 1911, d. 2 February 1982)

BASIC FACTS

Hugh Dulaney Faust was born on 11 June 1878 in Indian Spring, Tennessee (Near Blountville, below Kingsport and Bristol.)^2,3,4 He and Frances Nell "Fran" Reeves were married on 16 October 1907.⁵ He died on 26 November 1938, at age 60, in Knoxville, Knox Co., Tennessee.^5,3

Hugh Dulaney Faust was also known as Hugh Foust.^6,7 He was also known as Hugh Frost.⁸ He had reference number 10727. His Social Security Number was 414-12-6090, issued Tennessee.⁶ GRAVE MARKER

HUGH DULANEY FAUST
JUNE 11, 1878
NOV. 26, 1938.

Citations

[S5443] Genealogy prepared by Cathy (Crabtree) Cook, Source Medium: Book
[S6555] Genealogy prepared by Lawrence G. Hardin (WFT V11T1543)
[S4021] Death Records - Tennessee "Tennessee, Death Records, 1914 - 1955" (LDS)
[S4980] Find A Grave (Internet), Source Medium: Book
[S2798] Book: Ancestral Sketches by LeRoy Reeves and the Family of Edward Reeves and Jane Melvin by Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins
[S12398] Social Security Death Index, Source Medium: Book
[S4174] DeVault Genealogy prepared prior to 1933 and supplied by Evelyn (Bayna) Read
[S5329] Genealogy prepared by Bitsy (McLellan) McFarland, Source Medium: Book

Family Explorer

Mary Lois "Lois" Reeves^1,2

F, #10460, b. March 1886, d. 16 October 1911

Parents

Father	Isaac Edward Reeves (b. 10 May 1842, d. 31 January 1899)
Mother	Mary Malinda Dosser (b. 6 October 1849, d. 12 September 1931)

Pedigree Link

BASIC FACTS

Mary Lois "Lois" Reeves was born in March 1886 in Tennessee.² She died on 16 October 1911, at age 25.^3,4 She was buried in Old Jonesboro Cemetery, Jonesborough, Washington Co., Tennessee.⁵

Mary Lois "Lois" Reeves had reference number 10728. WEDDING RECEPTION - The Comet; Johnson City, Tennessee; September 30, 1909, Image 12 (Website: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov)

WEDDING RECEPTION AT AUSTIN SPRINGS
Mrs. William DeVault gave a most elegant and charming reception at her beautiful home on the Watauga on Thursday afternoon in honor of her son's bride, Mrs. A. Beverly DeVault. The hours were from three to four and from five to seven.
The guests were welcomed in the hall by Mrs. E. S. Kendrick, in a toilette of black lace over taffeta, and Miss Ella McNeil, who wore a dainty white lingerie with trimmings of baby Irish lace.
In the receiving line were Mrs. William V. DeVault, Mrs. A. Beverly DeVault, Mr. James Newby, a brother of the bride, and Mrs. Hugh Hill.
Mrs. William DeVault wore a gown of green messaline with trimmings of old rose and cream lace.
Mrs. Beverly DeVault wore her bridal gown of handsome white satin, hand-embroidered with pearl and diamond ornaments, and Mrs. Hugh Hill appeared in black spangled net.
The parlor, library and hall were decorated in golden rod, the color scheme being yellow and white, artistically entwined from the chandelier in the dining-room to the four corners of the table, was soft, white tulle, on which were innumerable small yellow hearts suspended from white ribbons. On the center of the table resting on an exquisite lace center-piece, was a bowl of bride's roses. Mrs. A. J. Tyler, who served in the dining-room, wore a black net dress over satin and was assisted by Misses Clara Reeves, Lois Reeves and Claude DeVault, who wore dresses of yellow crepe de chine with white and gold lace.
Miss Eula Lee Kendrick, in a costume of green messaline, ushered the guests into the dining-room and from there to the library, where coffee and hot chocolate were served by Mrs. Samuel Browder and Mrs. E. A. Long. Out in the spacious circle of the wide veranda, Mrs. James Martin and Mrs. Robert DeVault served grape punch from a bowl decorated with bunches of purple grapes and green foliage.
A charming little rustic picture was given out on the lawn under the spreading oaks. A table, from which was served luscious watermelons and sweet cider, was presided over by Mr. William DeVault, Judge A. J. Tyler, Capt. A. S. McNeil and Dr. F. B. Hannah.

Note: Some of the people mentioned in the article are:
Mrs. William DeVault: Barbara E. (Higginbotham) DeVault (1861 - 1932), daughter of Reese Bowen Higginbotham and Louise Jame Emmons. At the time of this reception, Barbara was second wife of William Valentine DeVault. She would later marry William's cousin, George Valentine DeVault.
Mrs. A. Beverly DeVault: Amelia Elizabeth (Newby) DeVault (1887 - 1973), daughter of Cyrus Newby and Anna Catherine "Kitty" Herron. Amelia had just married Albert Beverly "Beverly" DeVault,
Mrs. E. S. Kendrick: Mary Elfrida (DeVault) Kendrick (1861 - 19??), daughter of George Henry "Henry" DeVault and Emily Seraphina Berry. Mary was the wife of Everett Stuart Kendrick.
Miss Clara Reeves: Clara Boring Reeves (1884 - 1968), daughter of George Alexander "Fred" Reeves and Addie May Boring. Clara would later marry Horace Bishop Stevens.
Miss Lois Reeves: Mary Lois "Lois" Reeves (1886 - 1911), daughter of Isaac Edward Reeves and Mary Malinda Dosser. Lois never married. She died just over two years after this reception was given.
Miss Claude DeVault: Claude DeVault (1886 - 1966), daughter of James Miller DeVault and Addie Belle Hickman. Claude would later marry John Lee Hughlett.
Miss Eula Lee Kendrick: Eula Lee Kendrick (1888 - 1959), daughter of Everett Stuart Kendrick and Mary Elfrida DeVault. Eula would later marry Conley Earl "Earl" Ball.
Mrs. Samuel Browder: Elizabeth Miller "Bettie" (Paterson) Browder (1875 - 1925), daughter of Newton Alexander Patterson and Mary Susan "Sue" Reeves. Bettie was married to Samuel Lonzo Browder.
Mrs. Robert DeVault: Osceola (Walton) DeVault (1883 - 1928), daughter of Elijah Powell Walton and Arrispa Gaines Jewell. Osceola was married to Robert Drew DeVault.
Mr. William DeVault: William Valentine DeVault (1846 - 1916), son of Jacob DeVault and Elizabeth Jane Clark.
Dr. F. B. Hannah: Ferrell Bratcher Hannah, Jr. (1876 - 1932), son of Andrew Johnson Hannah and India Annie O'Brian. Ferrell was a relative of the DeVaults through the Hannah family. He knew George Valentine DeVault. Both lived in Umatilla, Lake County, Florida. In census records and many genealogies, Ferrell is shown as the son of Andrew and India Hannah. Ferrell Bratcher Hannah, Sr. was Andrew Hannah's brother. It appears that he was not the father of Ferrell Bratcher Hannah, Jr. Both Ferrell Bratcher Hannahs were dentists.

Citations

[S5329] Genealogy prepared by Bitsy (McLellan) McFarland, Source Medium: Book
[S6011] Genealogy prepared by George E. Newport (WFT V17T1718)
[S12379] Report on Henry Dewald and Family by Newland DeVault dated 1975, Source Medium: Book
[S2798] Book: Ancestral Sketches by LeRoy Reeves and the Family of Edward Reeves and Jane Melvin by Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins
[S3012] Cemetery Records, Old Jonesboro Cemetery, Jonesborough, Washington Co., Tennessee

Family Explorer

D.D Ephraim Emerson Wiley^1,2,3,4

M, #10461, b. 6 October 1814, d. 13 March 1893

Parents

Father	Ephraim Wiley
Mother	Rebecca Putnam Emerson

Pedigree Link

Family: Elizabeth Juan "Lizzie" Reeves (b. 13 May 1844, d. 21 February 1921)

Daughter	Mary Helen Wiley+ (b. about 1871, d. 1928)
Son	D.D Edward Emerson Wiley+ (b. 7 August 1874, d. 21 August 1956)
Son	Garland Summers Wiley, M.D. (b. 1 September 1879, d. 1918)

BASIC FACTS

D.D Ephraim Emerson Wiley was born on 6 October 1814 in Cambridge, Middlesex Co., Virginia.¹ He was born on 6 October 1814 in Malden, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.¹ He and Elizabeth Juan "Lizzie" Reeves were married on 3 October 1870 in Washington Co., Tennessee.^5,6 He died on 13 March 1893, at age 78, in Emory, Washington Co., Virginia.^7,1 He was buried in Emory and Henry Cemetery, Emory, Washington Co., Virginia.^8,1

D.D Ephraim Emerson Wiley was also known as Edward E. Wiley.^9,10 He was also known as D.D Ephriam Emerson Wiley.^11,12 He had reference number 10729. He held the title Rev. He was a President of Emory and Henry College, Virginia for forty years.^10,12,2,3 He was educated Graduate of Wesleyan University; attended Emory and Henry College (1837); Doctor of Divinity.¹³ He resided in Lived at Emory and Henry College.¹² He was enumerated on the census in Washington County, Virginia (1860, 1870.) Ephraim was first married to Elizabeth Hackett Hammond. Ephriam and Elizabeth had seven children.
Ephraim was admitted to the Holston Conference in 1840.

BIOGRAPHY - From Sketches of Holston Preachers

Ephraim Emerson Wiley: "Born Oct. 6, 1814, near Boston, Mass. Son of Rev. Ephraim Wiley, a member of the New England Conference. His mother was Rebecca Emerson Wiley of the Concord Emersons. Educated at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., from which he graduated in 1837. In 1839 he became Professor of Ancient Languages in Emory and Henry College, Va. Succeeded Dr. Charles Collins as President of Emory and Henry College in 1852 and served as Professor or President for forty years; and was for five years President of Martha Washington College, Abingdon, Va. Admitted on trial into Holston Conference 1840. It is said that he never missed a roll call at Conference and never left until Conference adjourned. He was the most eminent man in Holston Conference for fifty years and was one of the eminent men of the Southern Methodist Church for many years. He was a member of ten successive sessions of the General Conference. He was recognized as one of the great preachers of the South. Although a son of New England he became an ardent Southerner; and was perfectly loyal to the Southern Methodist Church. He was twice married. His first wife was Miss Elizabeth Hammond, of Middletown, Conn. His second wife was Miss Elizabeth Reeves, of Washington County, Tenn., to whom he was married Oct. 3, 1870. They had three children, one of whom, Dr. E. E. Wiley, is a Methodist preacher, and a grandson bearing the same name is also a Methodist preacher. He died March 13, 1893, at Emory, Va., and was buried there.

Citations

[S4980] Find A Grave (Internet), Source Medium: Book
[S132] 1860 Census, Virginia, Washington County
[S214] 1870 Census, Virginia, Washington County
[S371] 1880 Census, Virginia, Washington County
[S4866] Email from Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins dated July 10, 2001 @ 3:28 PM
[S9007] Marriage Records - Tennessee, Tennessee State Marriages 1780 - 2002 (Ancestry.com)
[S4862] Email from Willie Hardin Reeves Bivins dated September 16, 2001
[S12379] Report on Henry Dewald and Family by Newland DeVault dated 1975, Source Medium: Book
[S5329] Genealogy prepared by Bitsy (McLellan) McFarland, Source Medium: Book
[S5443] Genealogy prepared by Cathy (Crabtree) Cook, Source Medium: Book
[S6011] Genealogy prepared by George E. Newport (WFT V17T1718)
[S2798] Book: Ancestral Sketches by LeRoy Reeves and the Family of Edward Reeves and Jane Melvin by Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins
[S6555] Genealogy prepared by Lawrence G. Hardin (WFT V11T1543)

Family Explorer

Mary Helen Wiley^1,2

F, #10462, b. about 1871, d. 1928

Parents

Father	D.D Ephraim Emerson Wiley (b. 6 October 1814, d. 13 March 1893)
Mother	Elizabeth Juan "Lizzie" Reeves (b. 13 May 1844, d. 21 February 1921)

Pedigree Link

Family: Joseph Leonard Jarman (b. 19 November 1867, d. 14 November 1947)

Child	Child #7 Jarman
Child	Child #6 Jarman
Son	Emerson Wiley Jarman (b. 11 January 1893, d. 18 December 1961)
Daughter	Elizabeth Parker Jarman+ (b. 5 March 1895, d. 30 May 1988)
Son	Joseph Lindsey Jarman (b. 10 August 1897)
Daughter	Helen Reeves Jarman (b. about 1905)
Son	William Dabney Jarman+ (b. 16 August 1906, d. 13 February 2006)

BASIC FACTS

Mary Helen Wiley was born about 1871 in Virginia.² She and Joseph Leonard Jarman were married on 22 December 1891 in Emory and Henry College, Virginia.³ She died in 1928.⁴

Mary Helen Wiley had reference number 10730. She was educated Finished her education at Martha Washington College, Abingdon, Virginia.³ She was enumerated on the census in Washington County, Virginia (1880.)

Citations

[S5329] Genealogy prepared by Bitsy (McLellan) McFarland, Source Medium: Book
[S371] 1880 Census, Virginia, Washington County
[S2525] Biography - Joseph Leonard Jarman
[S2798] Book: Ancestral Sketches by LeRoy Reeves and the Family of Edward Reeves and Jane Melvin by Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins

Family Explorer

D.D Edward Emerson Wiley^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}

M, #10463, b. 7 August 1874, d. 21 August 1956

Parents

Father	D.D Ephraim Emerson Wiley (b. 6 October 1814, d. 13 March 1893)
Mother	Elizabeth Juan "Lizzie" Reeves (b. 13 May 1844, d. 21 February 1921)

Pedigree Link

Family: Lucy Osment (b. 15 March 1876, d. 28 December 1965)

Son	Edward Emerson "Ned" Wiley, Jr. (b. 22 March 1910, d. 11 June 2003)
Son	Francis Amelis Wiley (b. 30 August 1912, d. 29 March 2006)

BASIC FACTS

D.D Edward Emerson Wiley was born on 7 August 1874 in Emory, Washington Co., Virginia.^4,7,9 He and Lucy Osment were married about 1909.⁵ He died on 21 August 1956, at age 82, in Knoxville, Knox Co., Tennessee.^7,9 He was buried in Lynnhurst Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox Co., Tennessee.⁷

D.D Edward Emerson Wiley had reference number 10731. He was a Pastor - methodist church (1910 - 1930); pastor, State Street Methodist Church, Bristol, Tennessee.^2,5,6,8 He resided in Abingdon, Washington Co., Virginia.¹⁰ He was enumerated on the census in Washington County, Virginia (1880); Tazewell County, Virgina (1910); Hamilton County, Tennessee (1920); Hamblen County, Tennessee (1930.) GRAVE MARKER

EDWARD E. WILEY D.D.
AUGUST 7, 1874
APRIL 21, 1956.

Citations

[S5329] Genealogy prepared by Bitsy (McLellan) McFarland, Source Medium: Book
[S5443] Genealogy prepared by Cathy (Crabtree) Cook, Source Medium: Book
[S4862] Email from Willie Hardin Reeves Bivins dated September 16, 2001
[S371] 1880 Census, Virginia, Washington County
[S1055] 1910 Census, Virginia, Tazewell County
[S1436] 1920 Census, Tennessee, Hamilton County
[S4980] Find A Grave (Internet), Source Medium: Book
[S1934] 1930 Census, Tennessee, Hamblen County
[S3379] Death Certificate - Edward Emerson Wiley
[S2798] Book: Ancestral Sketches by LeRoy Reeves and the Family of Edward Reeves and Jane Melvin by Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins

Family Explorer

Garland Summers Wiley, M.D.^1,2,3

M, #10464, b. 1 September 1879, d. 1918

Parents

Father	D.D Ephraim Emerson Wiley (b. 6 October 1814, d. 13 March 1893)
Mother	Elizabeth Juan "Lizzie" Reeves (b. 13 May 1844, d. 21 February 1921)

Pedigree Link

BASIC FACTS

Garland Summers Wiley, M.D., was born on 1 September 1879 in Emory, Washington Co., Virginia.^2,4 He died in 1918, at age ~39, in Brazil.⁵ He was buried in Brazil.⁵

Garland Summers Wiley, M.D., was also known as Garland E. Wiley.⁶ He had reference number 10732. He was a Physician - surgeon (1910); physician for a large corporation in Brazil.^5,3 He was enumerated on the census in Washington County, Virginia (1880.) The U.S. Consular Certificate says Garland was joining he M-M. Ry. Company.

Citations

[S6011] Genealogy prepared by George E. Newport (WFT V17T1718)
[S371] 1880 Census, Virginia, Washington County
[S1052] 1910 Census, Virginia, Roanoke (Indipendent City) County
[S12430] U.S. Consular Registration Certificates, 1907 - 1918
[S2798] Book: Ancestral Sketches by LeRoy Reeves and the Family of Edward Reeves and Jane Melvin by Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins
[S5329] Genealogy prepared by Bitsy (McLellan) McFarland, Source Medium: Book

Family Explorer

Mary S. Murphy^1,2,3,4

F, #10465, b. 14 March 1857, d. 15 October 1905

Parents

Father	John Andrew Murphy, M.D.
Mother	Eleanor Virginia "Ellen" Teeter

Pedigree Link

Family: William Rollin Reeves (b. 20 June 1850, d. 19 May 1930)

Son	Edward Murphy Reeves (b. 27 November 1883, d. 1 December 1883)
Daughter	Mary Eleanor "Nelle" Reeves+ (b. 1 June 1885, d. 4 August 1981)
Son	William Rollin Reeves, Ii M.D+ (b. 28 July 1887, d. 3 January 1975)
Son	John Murphy "Murph" Reeves, M.D+ (b. 16 September 1890, d. 8 December 1960)
Son	Edwin Wiley Reeves, M.D.+ (b. 16 September 1890, d. 10 June 1962)

BASIC FACTS

Mary S. Murphy was born on 14 March 1857 in Bristol Sullivan Co., Tennessee.^5,6,3 She and William Rollin Reeves were married on 23 March 1881.^5,7 She died on 15 October 1905, at age 48, in Jonesboro, Washington Co., Tennessee.^5,8 She was buried in Old Jonesboro Cemetery, Jonesborough, Washington Co., Tennessee.⁵

Mary S. Murphy had reference number 10733. She was affiliated with Lutheran.⁵ She was enumerated on the census in Sullivan County, Tennessee (1880); Washington County, Tennessee (1900.) She was a Music teacher (1880.)⁴ GRAVE MARKER

Mary Murphy
Wife of
W. R. Reeves
Mar. 14, 1857
Oct. 15, 1905
MOTHER.

Citations

[S5329] Genealogy prepared by Bitsy (McLellan) McFarland, Source Medium: Book
[S669] 1900 Census, Tennessee, Washington County
[S7000] Genealogy prepared by plaguemurphy (Ancestry.com)
[S358] 1880 Census, Tennessee, Sullivan County
[S5443] Genealogy prepared by Cathy (Crabtree) Cook, Source Medium: Book
[S359] 1880 Census, Tennessee, Washington County
[S6011] Genealogy prepared by George E. Newport (WFT V17T1718)
[S6555] Genealogy prepared by Lawrence G. Hardin (WFT V11T1543)

Family Explorer

Roberta Taylor Simcox^1,2,3

F, #10466, b. 18 October 1911, d. 15 February 1957

Parents

Father	George Powell Simcox (b. 2 March 1877, d. 28 April 1928)
Mother	Rhoda Beatrice "Beatrice" Reeves (b. 6 August 1877, d. 23 July 1963)

Pedigree Link

Family: Wilmer Holdway Poston (b. 28 September 1907, d. 12 October 1968)

Daughter	Mary Helen Poston+ (b. 23 May 1932, d. 7 July 2011)
Daughter	Margaret Ann Poston+

BASIC FACTS

Roberta Taylor Simcox was born on 18 October 1911 in Bulls Gap, Hawkins Co., Tennessee.¹ She and Wilmer Holdway Poston were married on 13 July 1930 in Roanoke, Roanoke City Co., Virginia.¹ She died on 15 February 1957, at age 45, in Kingsport, Sullivan Co., Tennessee.¹ She was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Kingsport, Sullivan Co., Tennessee (Section E.)⁴

Roberta Taylor Simcox was also known as Roberta Love Simcox.⁵ She had reference number 10734. She was enumerated on the census in Hawkins County, Tennessee (1920, 1930.) She resided in Bulls Gap, Hawkins Co., Tennessee (1928); Roanoke, Roanoke City Co., Virginia (1936.)^6,7 GRAVE MARKER

ROBERTA S. POSTON
1911 - 1957.

Citations

[S2798] Book: Ancestral Sketches by LeRoy Reeves and the Family of Edward Reeves and Jane Melvin by Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins
[S1437] 1920 Census, Tennessee, Hawkins County
[S1936] 1930 Census, Tennessee, Hawkins County
[S4980] Find A Grave (Internet), Source Medium: Book
[S7402] Genealogy prepared by Terri Freeman (Ancestry.com)
[S3152] City Directory - Virginia, Hill's Roanoke (Roanoke City County) City Directory 1936
[S10265] Obituary - George Powell Simcox

Family Explorer

Mary Eva Taylor

F, #10467, b. 28 March 1855

Parents

Father	Nathaniel Green Taylor
Mother	Emmaline "Emma" Haynes (b. 2 April 1822, d. 16 November 1890)

Pedigree Link

BASIC FACTS

Mary Eva Taylor was born on 28 March 1855.

Mary Eva Taylor had reference number 10735.

Family Explorer

Mary Eleanor "Nelle" Reeves^1,2,3,4,5

F, #10468, b. 1 June 1885, d. 4 August 1981

Parents

Father	William Rollin Reeves (b. 20 June 1850, d. 19 May 1930)
Mother	Mary S. Murphy (b. 14 March 1857, d. 15 October 1905)

Pedigree Link

Family: Robert Pierce "Bob" Shuler (b. 4 August 1880, d. 11 September 1965)

Son	William Reeves Shuler+ (b. 16 January 1911, d. 11 March 1984)
Daughter	Dorothy Shuler+ (b. 4 July 1913, d. 27 July 1998)
Son	Ph.D Robert Pierce Shuler, Jr.+ (b. 6 November 1916, d. 25 August 2000)
Son	D.D Jack Cornett Shuler+ (b. 12 July 1918, d. 9 December 1962)
Daughter	Nell "Nelle" Shuler+ (b. 1 October 1919, d. 25 October 2008)
Son	Richard Clifton Shuler (b. 4 February 1922, d. September 1922)
Son	Edward Hooper Shuler+ (b. 21 July 1923)
Son	Phillip Ross "Phil" Shuler+ (b. 29 December 1924, d. 19 June 2009)

BASIC FACTS

Mary Eleanor "Nelle" Reeves was born on 1 June 1885 in Tennessee.^2,3 She and Robert Pierce "Bob" Shuler were married on 4 October 1905 in "Wheatland Farm", Johnson City, Washington Co., Tennessee.⁵ She died on 4 August 1981, at age 96.^6,7 She was buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles Co., California.⁶

Mary Eleanor "Nelle" Reeves had reference number 10736. She was enumerated on the census in Washington County, Tennessee (1900); Los Angeles County, California (1940.) Her Social Security Number was 541-78-4098, issued: Oregon, last residence: Bakersfield, Kern Co., California. EXCERPT - The Fighting Robert Shuler, by Robert Pierce Shuler, III

In Bob's second year at Norton, he agreed to hold a revival for a college friend, Jim Groseclose, who was a pastor of a small church in Austin Springs, Tennessee. The country church was located in a prosperous community of plantation estates. One of the wealthiest land owners among them was the DeVaults family, William and Barbarie.(1) William's niece was Nelle Reeves, who lived a distance away. Nelle had agreed to lead the singing and play the organ for the Bob Shuler revival. This necessitated Nelle's staying the week with the DeVaults in their home. Thus, the stage was set for Bob and Nellie to cross paths. How did Bob and Nelle meet? The following is Nelle's own description:

"Jim Groseclose had the Jonesboro appointment with two additional chapels: Marvin Chapel, where our family worshipped, and the Chapel at Austin Springs, where the revival was held. Marvin was three miles from our Wheatland home, and Austin Springs was seven miles the other way. My mother had for years been a dressmaker who made all her own clothes and now was making mine also. [There appears to be something missing here.] She lived in Jonesboro four miles away. Papa would go in twice a year and bring her and her sewing machine out. Mama had her own sewing machine, and together, they would sew for a week at a time.
"Mother was going to Bristol for the material, and I wanted to go along to pick out my own material. It was a train ride of thirty miles one way, and we stayed with relatives overnight and visited. The Sunday night preceding the week of our dressmaking, I got up from the organ at Marvin Chapel to speak with some boys from Washington City that I had gone to school with when Brother Groseclose stopped by and said, 'Miss Nell, I've got to have you, beginning tomorrow morning, at Austin Springs. We are starting a revival there.'
"I said, "I can't. I'm going up to Bristol Tuesday, and I need Monday to get ready.' But he would not take 'no' for an answer, so I said, 'Talk to Papa about it.' I intended to get to Papa first and have him cover for me, but I visited with others too long and didn't get back to Papa. In fact, I forgot all about Papa, an easy mistake for a young lady to make in the presence of beaus.
"When we got home that night, Papa said, 'Daut, I told Groseclose that you would be over for the revival Tuesday morning.'
"Nelle replied, 'Oh Papa, I meant to get to you and tell you I couldn't do that. Mama and I are leaving Tuesday morning for Bristol.'
Said Papa, 'Well, you're not. You're not going back on your church.'
"'But Daddy, we have made arrangements with the dressmaker, and I have to get the material.' But he said I was not going. I could sew anytime, and I was going to get ready for the revival.
"Monday night I brought the suitcase down into the parlor, since there was no heat in my upstairs room, and I was so mad that I wouldn't talk to anybody when Papa said, 'Daut, I heard that Preacher's not married; be sure you come back with your heart.'
"I answered back, 'No preacher can have my heart. I'm not going to be dragged all over the country.'
"The next morning we rode over; Mama, cousin Barbarie and I. The preacher was staying at the Akards who lived half-way between Wheatland and Cousin Barbarie. He had preached his first sermon at Austin Springs and Cousin Barbarie said, 'Nell, he's a mighty nice preacher, and good looking.'
"To which I replied, 'It makes no difference how good looking, he's a preacher.'
"Cousin Barbarie drove me to the church, and Groseclose was there but not the preacher. We started the meeting. I had a bunch up for the choir, and the organ faced the pulpit and the door so that I could see both. I was watching the door closely because I wanted to see how many people that I knew who would be coming. The crowd was not big, and I knew most of them there.
"There were two sets of doors into the chapel. The outside doors open in the width of the balcony, and the inside doors opened into the chapel. The door opened, and I was watching as a stranger walked in, removed a derby hat and put it on his arm over his overcoat, which was draped over a Bible. He had released the outside door and it swung back and hit his arm. The hat flew off and by grabbing for it, he dropped his Bible and his notes spread out over the floor. He grabbed his notes and lost his hat again. As he looked up from his confusion, I was laughing at him. Finally he got his possessions in hand, walked up the aisle, starring a hole through me. As he passed, I thought, 'You are rude to stare at me like this.' He continued into the pulpit and I knew then that he was the preacher. We met after the service.
"On that same Tuesday afternoon, Cousin Barbarie and I were sitting in front of the fire when the preacher walked in with the evangelist. He had worked it around so that he could get over to the DeVaults' place and stay for the remainder of the revival.

Bob and Nelle visited each other every day in the DeVault home through the next Monday afternoon. Thursday morning of the revival, while they were sipping coffee in the living room of the DeVault home, Bob said to Nelle, "Girlie, you have pulled my heart out by the roots, and we're getting married."
A startled Nelle looked askance and answered, "Oh, we are?" By the end of the revival they were betrothed, though none else knew this except cousin Barbarie.
The Monday after the close of the revival, Nelle's mother arrived in the carriage to take her home. Nelle quickly brought her mother up to date on the courtship details. They stopped the carriage to embrace and to enjoy the news together. The remainder of the trip home was spent in preparing a suitable plan to capture Mr. Reeves' commitment. He would surely oppose anyone who sought his daughter's hand, and had said so more than once. Nelle had been absent in private schools until her graduation, and her father now wanted her around so that he might enjoy her. Nelle was her father's favorite over her three brothers, and she did all she could to please him. A lovely description of Nelle was written years later by daughter Dorothy:

"I wish you could have known my mother. Born and raised in Tennessee, the adored and pampered daughter of a Tennessee legislator and his Irish wife, Nelle Reeves was a legend in the area. She had the tiny waist, generous breast, rounded hips, and graceful carriage that every young girl of her time longed for. Equipped with a cameo profile, blue eyes, black hair, the proverbial southern peaches and cream complexion and beautiful hands that had never washed a dish or made a bed, she was the princess in the parlor during the Sunday 'at homes' when her young suitors came calling -- so many that her mother and aunts would come downstairs to help her entertain them. She graduated from a prestigious finishing school, performed beautifully on the piano, played the organ for services in her church, and generally lived a charmed life with assurance, grace and confidence.

Bob, meanwhile, returned to Norton. Now, however, his work was interrupted daily by his letter writing and dreaming. Bob always spoke openly about whatever was on his mind, so his Norton congregation was caught up in the emotion of it all as well. The Norton Church granted him a leave to spend a few days with the Reeves family, and within two weeks of his last visit, he returned.
In the meantime, Mr. Reeves was informed of the engagement by his wife, and the siege was on. He knew little of young Bob's background and had many questions to ask this young man. Mrs. Reeves, on the other kept raising a single question: "If God has called this man to preach, and has selected our wonderful child to share this work with him, how can you stand in God's way?"
The matter was still stalemated when young Shuler arrived. The father, owner of hundreds of acres of choice wheat land and a Legislator in Tennessee, asked Bob, "Can you support her in the manner she is used to?" Bob thought he could and said so. He announced that he had acquired a loan of $100 for the honeymoon and was paid $75 a month by the church. The father's reply was "Son, she spends more than that on clothes. It has been my habit with her to send my checkbook along when she shops. Do you believe she could adjust to $75.00 a month?" With such a tone, this conversation concluded that first evening.
The next day Mr. Reeves saw how much these two loved each other, and how eager his daughter was to have her father's approval. So it was that Mr. Reeves consented. But, he warned them that it would take all their skill and patience to merge their backgrounds, for this marriage would have to be a case of opposites finding common ground. And, Mr. Reeves was right. Bob's background was that of a sharecropper family, limited in education, with little wealth or prospect for wealth. The Reeves line was of prosperous plantation stock. Nelle had taken Latin and earned an "A" in each year -- Bob had skipped Latin in order to preach.
So at the age of nineteen, Nelle met Bob Shuler, and in exactly one week from the day they met, she promised to marry him in just six months time. They believed that they had not just stumbled into each other, but that God had brought them together. That same morning, they hitched the horse to the buggy and took a long ride together, praying that neither would disappoint God. The wedding was to follow in six months.
As for Bob's background, daughter Dorothy composed a review of her father and her family in the 1970s:

"Bob was the eldest child of a struggling Virginia farmer who suddenly decided, at age 29 . . . to go to college. My grandfather had only a third-grade education, but, with my grandmother's approval, he took and passed the entrance exam at Emory and Henry College and earned his degree. My grandmother cooked for boarders, and my father hired out to other farmers. When my father was sixteen, his mother died and his father, needing someone to care for his children who now numbered six, remarried and suggested to my father that he was old enough to support himself. My father worked at any job available, put himself through college and was ordained as a Methodist minister, even before he graduated . . . he became one of the last of the circuit riders in the hills of Virginia and Tennessee. I have a picture of him, which is one of my greatest treasurers, seated in an ornate chair, obviously in a photographer's studio. . . . He wears a suit with a high, stiff collar, laced high-top shoes, his dark, thick hair is parted in the middle and waves softly above his brow. His brown eyes are fixed on something to his right and he is, believe me, absolutely beautiful. He is, forever, nineteen years old.

During their engagement period, Nelle and Bob exchanged letters daily. The Shuler family has preserved at least four of Bob's 1905 letters to Nelle. She received the first of these four letters on July 3, 1905, and it is the one worth quoting. He and she were obviously anticipating their October wedding date, and his letter concluded in the following way:

"It is past eleven at night, so here's the old, old story of my love for you, pet, which seems to be thriving finely in this July weather. Maybe August will be a better month for it though, although love in August is rather warm business. But, August will have this advantage; there will not be so much distance to lend enchantment to the view. Really, I don't think our love needs much enchantment, view or distance either. Close range rather pleases my fancy. Well, I'll be at your house in August if the boo-boos don't catch me. And, until August, I love you. . . . I think sometimes my heart is a fiery furnace heated seven times hot. By the way, little Cupid is a corker, anyway, isn't he? Well, good night, my lady, and may you be troubled with thoughts of me both waking and sleeping, and I hope you'll love me half as much as I love you. That's all. Yours, forever and forever. Bob

Meanwhile, Poppa Reeves had become suspicious of the volume of letters given him to mail by his daughter. "Daut, (short for daughter) are you taking on more boys to write to?" he asked.
Nelle was said to answer, "I may drop some." In the meantime, both Bob and Nelle did have other romances to terminate. Nelle had accepted a ring from a Florida dentist, but the ring was never considered by Nelle to be an engagement ring. As well, she corresponded with a young attorney. But, none of them were a serious consideration to Nelle. Of Bob's love life, his father, J. W. W., provided the following recall:

"Because Bob was by this time ordained, he sought a parsonage partner. He wanted a companion to share the next years of his life, a mother for the children he desired. One day, while Bob was visiting his mother's Emory grave, he noticed a young woman seated at a nearby grave. She was weeping. Bob sat down beside her to provide comfort. They spent the afternoon together within the confines of the cemetery. Finally, they walked down the hill to the train. While on this half-mile walk, Bob proposed marriage, and she accepted. They kissed goodbye at the train station in Emory and were never to see each other again.

There was, as well, his courtship with Miss Lizzie, who was in Norton visiting members of Bob's congregation. They met after the Sunday service and the following week, Bob began making frequent pastoral calls at the Ed Ould residence where Lizzie was staying. After Bob's 1965 death in Los Angeles, members of Bob's family visited Lizzie, who was coming to the end of a long marriage to a physician and was the mother of a wonderful family. She shared with them how Bob handled that courtship:

"She remembered that Bob and Henry Gilmer double dated in the parlor. Bob arranged to have two pairs of chairs, back to back with each other, so that Henry could not see what Bob was doing or hear what Bob was saying. She recalled that when Henry was silent for too long, Bob would ask him to say something, and loud. 'I want to say sweet things to Lizzie, and I can't when the whole room is listening.'
"Lizzie remembered Henry's reply, 'Bob, I am too full of love for utterance.' Henry then turned back to the silent worship of his date.
"This date was taking place only six weeks before he proposed to Nelle Reeves, though at the time, he knew nothing of Nelle's existence. Bob composed a Valentine for Lizzie and gave it to her on February 14th, six weeks before the Austin Springs Revival.
"Bob returned to Norton from Austin Springs to inform Lizzie of his engagement to Nelle Reeves. Soon thereafter, Lizzie left Norton and returned to her home in Virginia. She remembered how thrilled Bob was that his future wife was already canning peaches and other foods for their cellar.

With their marriage date visible on the horizon, Bob began to worry about the extravagant plantation life. He knew that his life had begun at the latter's lowest rung and that Nelle had known life at a much higher station. Nelle's father, William R. Reeves, managed 275 acres between Johnson City and Jonesboro. He had been a Tennessee Legislator and was a descendent of one of the oldest families in East Tennessee. Mr. Reeves married Mary (Molly) Murphy in 1881, and they moved into the old homestead with his parents and two of his sisters. The house they shared was built by William's father and uncle, who had been contractors and builders of state capitals throughout the south. William Reeves and his brother, Peter, had married sisters of the DeVault family, a family that owned the face of the earth in East Tennessee. The brothers were the original purchasers of 500 acres of land on which they built the brick home place.
The layout of the home began with an entire sub-floor given over to slave quarters. The ground floor and two large and identical rooms. The parlor was in front and the dining room in the rear. Each Room had a fireplace. A narrow stairway opened to the second floor, where there were several bedrooms. On each side of the house were massive porches. The out-buildings included a spring house, a smoke house, a blacksmith shop, two barns and lesser sheds. The setting for this home enjoyed mammoth oak trees, and it offered a large back lawn that no one bothered to level before the blue grass had begun to grow.
Molly Reeves, Nelle's mother, was remembered as an unselfish person who rode horses throughout the neighborhood, seeking out shack-houses of the poorest families. Never was race an issue. Having located those who needed help, she would then load a basket of food and clothing, balance it on her lap, and ride to homes to deliver the needed food. Others would wait for the needy to knock at the back door. But, Molly wouldn't wait for them to find her; she sought these out.
As well, Molly Reeves had a prankish humor, as embedded in her as was her unselfish service. She attended to her days with a most carefree spirit. Young Bob, whose father had a serious view of life, responded happily to Molly's humor. This prioritizing of humor continued to exist in each generation of Shulers to follow.
The wedding was planned for October 4th at 2:00 in the afternoon. This would allow the newlyweds one week before they were to attend the Annual Conference of their Methodism, to be appointed to a parish of their own. In preparation for the wedding, the Reeves sent out over five hundred invitations. Bob, meanwhile, returned to Norton to complete his year there. With the anticipated marriage, the Bishop's cabinet suggested that Bob be appointed elsewhere.
October 4 arrived, and Nelle's antebellum home was festooned with goldenrod on the wedding day. Goldenrod is a Tennessee weed growing in their fence rows, and the Reeves brothers had cut a wagon full of the branching stalks bearing clusters of small, yellow flower heads.
The wedding was held in the parlor, while the presents were placed in the living room. Four huge tables were filled with wedding gifts and with a large hogshead, itself filled with cut glass. Apparently, all 500 invited to the wedding attended, as the crowd outside was larger than that within the house. Molly Reeves did not come downstairs for the wedding, however. Molly's own mother had died weeks earlier. Word of her mother's illness had caused Molly to drop her part in her daughter's wedding preparations and return to her parents' home to care for them. Her mother died days later of typhoid. After the death and funeral, Molly returned to Wheatland to resume her part in her daughter's wedding preparations, unaware of the meaning of her fatigue. She was confined to bed, ill with typhoid fever, thought it had originally been diagnosed as fatigue.
The presiding minister over the ceremony was Will Shuler, Bob's father, though Jim Groseclose assisted. Nelle and her close friend, Clara, came down the stairs, followed by Bob's sister. They met Bob and Henry Gilmer, the best man. The wedding party stood before Will Shuler, who was standing with his back to the fireplace. Will's high collar was too tight, and when he spoke, he squeaked. Both Bob and Nelle laughed, and in this supportive atmosphere, they spoke their vows and were pronounced husband and wife. They would have ahead of them the celebration of 60 anniversaries.
After the wedding, Bob and Nelle were driven to Jonesboro and place on a train to Abingdon where they honeymooned in the hotel. They left the next day, October 11th, to answer the roll call at the Methodist Conference held in Bristol, Tennessee. On the 12th came the report that Nell's mother was weakening, and the newlyweds left Bristol for Wheatland. On the afternoon of the 15th, this worthy woman, servant to all, died.
In the Christian community, death, especially one as central as that of a mother, does not mark the story's end. It was untimely that Molly's death came at the outset of the lives of this newly married couple, but all life is that way -- the pausing to give thanks for the loved one and then the returning to the business of life. The Christian has the advantage of knowing he'll see his loved one again and will rejoice for eternity.
In the meanwhile, Bob and Nelle had a new congregation to meet, their first of many to come.

1) Thought to be William Valentine DeVault and his second wife, Barbara Higginbothan.

Citations

[S5329] Genealogy prepared by Bitsy (McLellan) McFarland, Source Medium: Book
[S2798] Book: Ancestral Sketches by LeRoy Reeves and the Family of Edward Reeves and Jane Melvin by Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins
[S669] 1900 Census, Tennessee, Washington County
[S2032] 1940 Census, California, Los Angeles County
[S2807] Book: Fighting Bob Shuler of Los Angeles, by Robert Shuler
[S4980] Find A Grave (Internet), Source Medium: Book
[S12398] Social Security Death Index, Source Medium: Book

Family Explorer

Robert Pierce "Bob" Shuler^1,2,3

M, #10469, b. 4 August 1880, d. 11 September 1965

Parents

Father	John William Webster "Wil" Shuler
Mother	Rosa Elvira Cornett

Pedigree Link

Family: Mary Eleanor "Nelle" Reeves (b. 1 June 1885, d. 4 August 1981)

Son	William Reeves Shuler+ (b. 16 January 1911, d. 11 March 1984)
Daughter	Dorothy Shuler+ (b. 4 July 1913, d. 27 July 1998)
Son	Ph.D Robert Pierce Shuler, Jr.+ (b. 6 November 1916, d. 25 August 2000)
Son	D.D Jack Cornett Shuler+ (b. 12 July 1918, d. 9 December 1962)
Daughter	Nell "Nelle" Shuler+ (b. 1 October 1919, d. 25 October 2008)
Son	Richard Clifton Shuler (b. 4 February 1922, d. September 1922)
Son	Edward Hooper Shuler+ (b. 21 July 1923)
Son	Phillip Ross "Phil" Shuler+ (b. 29 December 1924, d. 19 June 2009)

BASIC FACTS

Robert Pierce "Bob" Shuler was born on 4 August 1880 in Comer's Rock, Grayson Co., Virginia.^1,4,5,6 He and Mary Eleanor "Nelle" Reeves were married on 4 October 1905 in "Wheatland Farm", Johnson City, Washington Co., Tennessee.⁶ He died on 11 September 1965, at age 85, in Monterey Co., California.^4,5 He was buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles Co., California.⁷

Robert Pierce "Bob" Shuler had reference number 10737. He held the title Rev. He was a Minister - church (1940); for more than 33 years Pastor of the Trinity Methodist Church, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California; Editor of "Bob Shuler's Magazine" and "The Methodist Challenge."^8,4,3 His Social Security Number was 554-50-6751, issued California.⁹ He was enumerated on the census in Los Angeles County, California (1940.) He was educated Graduated college with an A.B. degree (1903.)⁶ Bob Shuler, Jr. and Bob Shuler, III wrote:

In the first week of October, 1920, the newly appointed minister came to the downtown, Los Angeles, Southern Methodist Church named "Trinity." As he came, no one expected anything exciting and exceptional from him, as evidenced by the few lines on the back pages of the newspapers the day he arrived. In a few short years, however, he was one of the most dominant voices in the city, and what he said on Sunday often determined what the newspapers tried to counter on Monday. His Gospel was Wesleyan and evangelical and appealed to scores of Mid-Westerners who had moved to Los Angeles. He also had the ability to excite people to civic action and for the next thirty-three years, he worked at creating a Christian community and Christian government throughout the Southland. In the words of Ray Duncan, a reporter of note in the early days, "Politicians feared him, criminals avoided him, policemen hated him, newspapers deplored him, ministers preached against him, and city hall trembled before him. Nobody spoke well of him except the public."
The context of his public ministry was unusual. As all Southern Methodist ministers were then, he was evangelistic, finishing with altar calls and conversions. But besides this, he was involved in civic righteousness and moral behavior, so much so that he became renowned for his political stands. He was sued nine times, put in jail for two weeks, his church was bombed twice, and all this was because he was exposing immorality and corruption in Los Angeles.
In 1924 Shuler's ministry was considerably helped along by a stranger, Mrs. Lizzie Glide, of Oakland, who gave him a radio station. He was already writing and publishing a monthly magazine that was circulating 20,000 copies, so his influence over the basin was greatly expanded. Soon he presented his own candidate for Mayor and elected him. Albert Marco, king of the underworld, along with a district attorney, a judge and others, were sent to prison. Guy McFee, who graduated from the police force into the head of the gambling fraternity, left Los Angeles for Las Vegas.
To Shuler, leading a penitent soul to Christ at the altar as well as shutting down the underworld activities and assuring honest elections, were two sides of the same Gospel glove. The enlarged gatherings coming to Trinity were evidence that the people had found a Church that preached the whole Gospel.
Since Trinity Church was the largest church in its denomination on the West Coast, and because Shuler was so trusted in Southern Methodist circles, he led his delegations to both General and Jurisdictional Conferences, and was involved in the creating of Church Rules, Disciplines and Policy. He was allowed a two month leave of absence for preaching revivals throughout the United States, and most of the time was in Union Crusades, sponsored by Southern Methodist churches. This remained true until the unification of the Northern and Southern churches into The Methodist Church.
He was a delegate to the uniting Conference from the Southern Church. Since Civil War days, the two bodies had developed and preached the verities of Wesley's Articles of Religion. In the opinion of the Southern ministers, the Northern branch had become liberal. Shuler did not believe these two views could be united, and if the united Church merely overlapped such differences in the makeup of the various programs and commissions, the merger would not work. Secondly, he disapproved of these two bodies uniting without a mutually agreed upon constitution or binding agreement.
When union was set in practice in the Southern California Conference, the Southern Church was in the minority and watched itself absorbed into the Northern machinery. The Commission heads were all named from the liberal leadership. When the time came to elect delegates to General and Jurisdictional Conference, everyone elected was from the former Northern Church. The summer Youth Camps of the Southern Church were disbanded and the youth, instead of being evangelized, were lectured on becoming pacifists in time of war.
The perception of the Southern brethren was that no one united with them as equals, but rather swallowed them whole. It did make terrific entertainment at Conference, however, when Albert Day stood up to say that we would meet Hitler with Christian love and Shuler responded that he would meet him with his shotgun and fill his evil heart with buckshot. There was even one session when Shuler arose to propose a Resolution. He opened his Bible and read the Ten Commandments aloud and added, "Now, let's see you vote these down just because I proposed the motion." The Conference voted them up and congratulated him for finally being on the right side. Again, there was the time when The Rev. Helms arose and said, "Every major city in America needs a Bob Shuler, but no city in America is big enough to stand more than one of him." And Shuler led in the laughter. Conference in the uniting years was entertaining.
Robert Pierce Shuler, Sr. was born in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia in the year 1880, and died of a massive stroke in the Sam Simon home of his daughter on September 11, 1965. His beloved Trinity Church continued for a decade before it merged with a sister church, due to the demographic problem of inner city exodus.
But our forebearer cheated death in the perpetuating families of his seven children, and in the multitude of Angelinos who came under the influence of Trinity Church and who went forth to live fuller lives because of her.

GRAVE MARKER

ROBERT P. SHULER
METHODIST MINISTER
1880 + 1965. EXCERPT - The Fighting Robert Shuler, by Robert Pierce Shuler, III

In Bob's second year at Norton, he agreed to hold a revival for a college friend, Jim Groseclose, who was a pastor of a small church in Austin Springs, Tennessee. The country church was located in a prosperous community of plantation estates. One of the wealthiest land owners among them was the DeVaults family, William and Barbarie.(1) William's niece was Nelle Reeves, who lived a distance away. Nelle had agreed to lead the singing and play the organ for the Bob Shuler revival. This necessitated Nelle's staying the week with the DeVaults in their home. Thus, the stage was set for Bob and Nellie to cross paths. How did Bob and Nelle meet? The following is Nelle's own description:

"Jim Groseclose had the Jonesboro appointment with two additional chapels: Marvin Chapel, where our family worshipped, and the Chapel at Austin Springs, where the revival was held. Marvin was three miles from our Wheatland home, and Austin Springs was seven miles the other way. My mother had for years been a dressmaker who made all her own clothes and now was making mine also. [There appears to be something missing here.] She lived in Jonesboro four miles away. Papa would go in twice a year and bring her and her sewing machine out. Mama had her own sewing machine, and together, they would sew for a week at a time.
"Mother was going to Bristol for the material, and I wanted to go along to pick out my own material. It was a train ride of thirty miles one way, and we stayed with relatives overnight and visited. The Sunday night preceding the week of our dressmaking, I got up from the organ at Marvin Chapel to speak with some boys from Washington City that I had gone to school with when Brother Groseclose stopped by and said, 'Miss Nell, I've got to have you, beginning tomorrow morning, at Austin Springs. We are starting a revival there.'
"I said, "I can't. I'm going up to Bristol Tuesday, and I need Monday to get ready.' But he would not take 'no' for an answer, so I said, 'Talk to Papa about it.' I intended to get to Papa first and have him cover for me, but I visited with others too long and didn't get back to Papa. In fact, I forgot all about Papa, an easy mistake for a young lady to make in the presence of beaus.
"When we got home that night, Papa said, 'Daut, I told Groseclose that you would be over for the revival Tuesday morning.'
"Nelle replied, 'Oh Papa, I meant to get to you and tell you I couldn't do that. Mama and I are leaving Tuesday morning for Bristol.'
Said Papa, 'Well, you're not. You're not going back on your church.'
"'But Daddy, we have made arrangements with the dressmaker, and I have to get the material.' But he said I was not going. I could sew anytime, and I was going to get ready for the revival.
"Monday night I brought the suitcase down into the parlor, since there was no heat in my upstairs room, and I was so mad that I wouldn't talk to anybody when Papa said, 'Daut, I heard that Preacher's not married; be sure you come back with your heart.'
"I answered back, 'No preacher can have my heart. I'm not going to be dragged all over the country.'
"The next morning we rode over; Mama, cousin Barbarie and I. The preacher was staying at the Akards who lived half-way between Wheatland and Cousin Barbarie. He had preached his first sermon at Austin Springs and Cousin Barbarie said, 'Nell, he's a mighty nice preacher, and good looking.'
"To which I replied, 'It makes no difference how good looking, he's a preacher.'
"Cousin Barbarie drove me to the church, and Groseclose was there but not the preacher. We started the meeting. I had a bunch up for the choir, and the organ faced the pulpit and the door so that I could see both. I was watching the door closely because I wanted to see how many people that I knew who would be coming. The crowd was not big, and I knew most of them there.
"There were two sets of doors into the chapel. The outside doors open in the width of the balcony, and the inside doors opened into the chapel. The door opened, and I was watching as a stranger walked in, removed a derby hat and put it on his arm over his overcoat, which was draped over a Bible. He had released the outside door and it swung back and hit his arm. The hat flew off and by grabbing for it, he dropped his Bible and his notes spread out over the floor. He grabbed his notes and lost his hat again. As he looked up from his confusion, I was laughing at him. Finally he got his possessions in hand, walked up the aisle, starring a hole through me. As he passed, I thought, 'You are rude to stare at me like this.' He continued into the pulpit and I knew then that he was the preacher. We met after the service.
"On that same Tuesday afternoon, Cousin Barbarie and I were sitting in front of the fire when the preacher walked in with the evangelist. He had worked it around so that he could get over to the DeVaults' place and stay for the remainder of the revival.

Bob and Nelle visited each other every day in the DeVault home through the next Monday afternoon. Thursday morning of the revival, while they were sipping coffee in the living room of the DeVault home, Bob said to Nelle, "Girlie, you have pulled my heart out by the roots, and we're getting married."
A startled Nelle looked askance and answered, "Oh, we are?" By the end of the revival they were betrothed, though none else knew this except cousin Barbarie.
The Monday after the close of the revival, Nelle's mother arrived in the carriage to take her home. Nelle quickly brought her mother up to date on the courtship details. They stopped the carriage to embrace and to enjoy the news together. The remainder of the trip home was spent in preparing a suitable plan to capture Mr. Reeves' commitment. He would surely oppose anyone who sought his daughter's hand, and had said so more than once. Nelle had been absent in private schools until her graduation, and her father now wanted her around so that he might enjoy her. Nelle was her father's favorite over her three brothers, and she did all she could to please him. A lovely description of Nelle was written years later by daughter Dorothy:

"I wish you could have known my mother. Born and raised in Tennessee, the adored and pampered daughter of a Tennessee legislator and his Irish wife, Nelle Reeves was a legend in the area. She had the tiny waist, generous breast, rounded hips, and graceful carriage that every young girl of her time longed for. Equipped with a cameo profile, blue eyes, black hair, the proverbial southern peaches and cream complexion and beautiful hands that had never washed a dish or made a bed, she was the princess in the parlor during the Sunday 'at homes' when her young suitors came calling -- so many that her mother and aunts would come downstairs to help her entertain them. She graduated from a prestigious finishing school, performed beautifully on the piano, played the organ for services in her church, and generally lived a charmed life with assurance, grace and confidence.

Bob, meanwhile, returned to Norton. Now, however, his work was interrupted daily by his letter writing and dreaming. Bob always spoke openly about whatever was on his mind, so his Norton congregation was caught up in the emotion of it all as well. The Norton Church granted him a leave to spend a few days with the Reeves family, and within two weeks of his last visit, he returned.
In the meantime, Mr. Reeves was informed of the engagement by his wife, and the siege was on. He knew little of young Bob's background and had many questions to ask this young man. Mrs. Reeves, on the other kept raising a single question: "If God has called this man to preach, and has selected our wonderful child to share this work with him, how can you stand in God's way?"
The matter was still stalemated when young Shuler arrived. The father, owner of hundreds of acres of choice wheat land and a Legislator in Tennessee, asked Bob, "Can you support her in the manner she is used to?" Bob thought he could and said so. He announced that he had acquired a loan of $100 for the honeymoon and was paid $75 a month by the church. The father's reply was "Son, she spends more than that on clothes. It has been my habit with her to send my checkbook along when she shops. Do you believe she could adjust to $75.00 a month?" With such a tone, this conversation concluded that first evening.
The next day Mr. Reeves saw how much these two loved each other, and how eager his daughter was to have her father's approval. So it was that Mr. Reeves consented. But, he warned them that it would take all their skill and patience to merge their backgrounds, for this marriage would have to be a case of opposites finding common ground. And, Mr. Reeves was right. Bob's background was that of a sharecropper family, limited in education, with little wealth or prospect for wealth. The Reeves line was of prosperous plantation stock. Nelle had taken Latin and earned an "A" in each year -- Bob had skipped Latin in order to preach.
So at the age of nineteen, Nelle met Bob Shuler, and in exactly one week from the day they met, she promised to marry him in just six months time. They believed that they had not just stumbled into each other, but that God had brought them together. That same morning, they hitched the horse to the buggy and took a long ride together, praying that neither would disappoint God. The wedding was to follow in six months.
As for Bob's background, daughter Dorothy composed a review of her father and her family in the 1970s:

"Bob was the eldest child of a struggling Virginia farmer who suddenly decided, at age 29 . . . to go to college. My grandfather had only a third-grade education, but, with my grandmother's approval, he took and passed the entrance exam at Emory and Henry College and earned his degree. My grandmother cooked for boarders, and my father hired out to other farmers. When my father was sixteen, his mother died and his father, needing someone to care for his children who now numbered six, remarried and suggested to my father that he was old enough to support himself. My father worked at any job available, put himself through college and was ordained as a Methodist minister, even before he graduated . . . he became one of the last of the circuit riders in the hills of Virginia and Tennessee. I have a picture of him, which is one of my greatest treasurers, seated in an ornate chair, obviously in a photographer's studio. . . . He wears a suit with a high, stiff collar, laced high-top shoes, his dark, thick hair is parted in the middle and waves softly above his brow. His brown eyes are fixed on something to his right and he is, believe me, absolutely beautiful. He is, forever, nineteen years old.

During their engagement period, Nelle and Bob exchanged letters daily. The Shuler family has preserved at least four of Bob's 1905 letters to Nelle. She received the first of these four letters on July 3, 1905, and it is the one worth quoting. He and she were obviously anticipating their October wedding date, and his letter concluded in the following way:

"It is past eleven at night, so here's the old, old story of my love for you, pet, which seems to be thriving finely in this July weather. Maybe August will be a better month for it though, although love in August is rather warm business. But, August will have this advantage; there will not be so much distance to lend enchantment to the view. Really, I don't think our love needs much enchantment, view or distance either. Close range rather pleases my fancy. Well, I'll be at your house in August if the boo-boos don't catch me. And, until August, I love you. . . . I think sometimes my heart is a fiery furnace heated seven times hot. By the way, little Cupid is a corker, anyway, isn't he? Well, good night, my lady, and may you be troubled with thoughts of me both waking and sleeping, and I hope you'll love me half as much as I love you. That's all. Yours, forever and forever. Bob

Meanwhile, Poppa Reeves had become suspicious of the volume of letters given him to mail by his daughter. "Daut, (short for daughter) are you taking on more boys to write to?" he asked.
Nelle was said to answer, "I may drop some." In the meantime, both Bob and Nelle did have other romances to terminate. Nelle had accepted a ring from a Florida dentist, but the ring was never considered by Nelle to be an engagement ring. As well, she corresponded with a young attorney. But, none of them were a serious consideration to Nelle. Of Bob's love life, his father, J. W. W., provided the following recall:

"Because Bob was by this time ordained, he sought a parsonage partner. He wanted a companion to share the next years of his life, a mother for the children he desired. One day, while Bob was visiting his mother's Emory grave, he noticed a young woman seated at a nearby grave. She was weeping. Bob sat down beside her to provide comfort. They spent the afternoon together within the confines of the cemetery. Finally, they walked down the hill to the train. While on this half-mile walk, Bob proposed marriage, and she accepted. They kissed goodbye at the train station in Emory and were never to see each other again.

There was, as well, his courtship with Miss Lizzie, who was in Norton visiting members of Bob's congregation. They met after the Sunday service and the following week, Bob began making frequent pastoral calls at the Ed Ould residence where Lizzie was staying. After Bob's 1965 death in Los Angeles, members of Bob's family visited Lizzie, who was coming to the end of a long marriage to a physician and was the mother of a wonderful family. She shared with them how Bob handled that courtship:

"She remembered that Bob and Henry Gilmer double dated in the parlor. Bob arranged to have two pairs of chairs, back to back with each other, so that Henry could not see what Bob was doing or hear what Bob was saying. She recalled that when Henry was silent for too long, Bob would ask him to say something, and loud. 'I want to say sweet things to Lizzie, and I can't when the whole room is listening.'
"Lizzie remembered Henry's reply, 'Bob, I am too full of love for utterance.' Henry then turned back to the silent worship of his date.
"This date was taking place only six weeks before he proposed to Nelle Reeves, though at the time, he knew nothing of Nelle's existence. Bob composed a Valentine for Lizzie and gave it to her on February 14th, six weeks before the Austin Springs Revival.
"Bob returned to Norton from Austin Springs to inform Lizzie of his engagement to Nelle Reeves. Soon thereafter, Lizzie left Norton and returned to her home in Virginia. She remembered how thrilled Bob was that his future wife was already canning peaches and other foods for their cellar.

With their marriage date visible on the horizon, Bob began to worry about the extravagant plantation life. He knew that his life had begun at the latter's lowest rung and that Nelle had known life at a much higher station. Nelle's father, William R. Reeves, managed 275 acres between Johnson City and Jonesboro. He had been a Tennessee Legislator and was a descendent of one of the oldest families in East Tennessee. Mr. Reeves married Mary (Molly) Murphy in 1881, and they moved into the old homestead with his parents and two of his sisters. The house they shared was built by William's father and uncle, who had been contractors and builders of state capitals throughout the south. William Reeves and his brother, Peter, had married sisters of the DeVault family, a family that owned the face of the earth in East Tennessee. The brothers were the original purchasers of 500 acres of land on which they built the brick home place.
The layout of the home began with an entire sub-floor given over to slave quarters. The ground floor and two large and identical rooms. The parlor was in front and the dining room in the rear. Each Room had a fireplace. A narrow stairway opened to the second floor, where there were several bedrooms. On each side of the house were massive porches. The out-buildings included a spring house, a smoke house, a blacksmith shop, two barns and lesser sheds. The setting for this home enjoyed mammoth oak trees, and it offered a large back lawn that no one bothered to level before the blue grass had begun to grow.
Molly Reeves, Nelle's mother, was remembered as an unselfish person who rode horses throughout the neighborhood, seeking out shack-houses of the poorest families. Never was race an issue. Having located those who needed help, she would then load a basket of food and clothing, balance it on her lap, and ride to homes to deliver the needed food. Others would wait for the needy to knock at the back door. But, Molly wouldn't wait for them to find her; she sought these out.
As well, Molly Reeves had a prankish humor, as embedded in her as was her unselfish service. She attended to her days with a most carefree spirit. Young Bob, whose father had a serious view of life, responded happily to Molly's humor. This prioritizing of humor continued to exist in each generation of Shulers to follow.
The wedding was planned for October 4th at 2:00 in the afternoon. This would allow the newlyweds one week before they were to attend the Annual Conference of their Methodism, to be appointed to a parish of their own. In preparation for the wedding, the Reeves sent out over five hundred invitations. Bob, meanwhile, returned to Norton to complete his year there. With the anticipated marriage, the Bishop's cabinet suggested that Bob be appointed elsewhere.
October 4 arrived, and Nelle's antebellum home was festooned with goldenrod on the wedding day. Goldenrod is a Tennessee weed growing in their fence rows, and the Reeves brothers had cut a wagon full of the branching stalks bearing clusters of small, yellow flower heads.
The wedding was held in the parlor, while the presents were placed in the living room. Four huge tables were filled with wedding gifts and with a large hogshead, itself filled with cut glass. Apparently, all 500 invited to the wedding attended, as the crowd outside was larger than that within the house. Molly Reeves did not come downstairs for the wedding, however. Molly's own mother had died weeks earlier. Word of her mother's illness had caused Molly to drop her part in her daughter's wedding preparations and return to her parents' home to care for them. Her mother died days later of typhoid. After the death and funeral, Molly returned to Wheatland to resume her part in her daughter's wedding preparations, unaware of the meaning of her fatigue. She was confined to bed, ill with typhoid fever, thought it had originally been diagnosed as fatigue.
The presiding minister over the ceremony was Will Shuler, Bob's father, though Jim Groseclose assisted. Nelle and her close friend, Clara, came down the stairs, followed by Bob's sister. They met Bob and Henry Gilmer, the best man. The wedding party stood before Will Shuler, who was standing with his back to the fireplace. Will's high collar was too tight, and when he spoke, he squeaked. Both Bob and Nelle laughed, and in this supportive atmosphere, they spoke their vows and were pronounced husband and wife. They would have ahead of them the celebration of 60 anniversaries.
After the wedding, Bob and Nelle were driven to Jonesboro and place on a train to Abingdon where they honeymooned in the hotel. They left the next day, October 11th, to answer the roll call at the Methodist Conference held in Bristol, Tennessee. On the 12th came the report that Nell's mother was weakening, and the newlyweds left Bristol for Wheatland. On the afternoon of the 15th, this worthy woman, servant to all, died.
In the Christian community, death, especially one as central as that of a mother, does not mark the story's end. It was untimely that Molly's death came at the outset of the lives of this newly married couple, but all life is that way -- the pausing to give thanks for the loved one and then the returning to the business of life. The Christian has the advantage of knowing he'll see his loved one again and will rejoice for eternity.
In the meanwhile, Bob and Nelle had a new congregation to meet, their first of many to come.

1) Thought to be William Valentine DeVault and his second wife, Barbara Higginbothan.

Citations

[S5329] Genealogy prepared by Bitsy (McLellan) McFarland, Source Medium: Book
[S5846] Genealogy prepared by drossmarv (Ancestry.com)
[S2032] 1940 Census, California, Los Angeles County
[S2798] Book: Ancestral Sketches by LeRoy Reeves and the Family of Edward Reeves and Jane Melvin by Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins
[S2858] California Birth/Death Records (Internet)
[S2807] Book: Fighting Bob Shuler of Los Angeles, by Robert Shuler
[S4980] Find A Grave (Internet), Source Medium: Book
[S5443] Genealogy prepared by Cathy (Crabtree) Cook, Source Medium: Book
[S12398] Social Security Death Index, Source Medium: Book

Family Explorer

Ph.D Robert Pierce Shuler, Jr.^1,2

M, #10470, b. 6 November 1916, d. 25 August 2000

Parents

Father	Robert Pierce "Bob" Shuler (b. 4 August 1880, d. 11 September 1965)
Mother	Mary Eleanor "Nelle" Reeves (b. 1 June 1885, d. 4 August 1981)

Pedigree Link

Family: Ruth Audrey "Audrey" Barnes (b. 15 April 1921, d. 2 September 2002)

Daughter	Judith Ann "Judy" Shuler+
Son	Robert Pierce Shuler, III+
Daughter	Jill Kathleen Shuler+
Daughter	Ph.D Jan Laurel Shuler+

BASIC FACTS

Ph.D Robert Pierce Shuler, Jr., was born on 6 November 1916 in Paris, Lamar Co., Texas.³ He was born on 6 November 1916 in Austin, Travis Co., Texas.⁴ He and Ruth Audrey "Audrey" Barnes were married in 1940.⁴ He and Ruth Audrey "Audrey" Barnes were divorced in January 1969 in Los Angeles Co., California.⁵ He and Mildred L. "Millie" Gladden were married on 12 February 1970 in San Diego Co., California.^4,6 He died on 25 August 2000, at age 83, in Spring Valley, San Diego Co., California.^7,8

Ph.D Robert Pierce Shuler, Jr., had reference number 10738. He held the title Rev. He was a Pastor of Trinity Methodist Church, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California; Pastor First Methodist Church, Santa Ana, Orange Co., California.⁹ He was educated Ph.D.⁴ He resided in 13280 Country Drive, Spring Valley Lake, CA 92392 (1999.)⁴ He was enumerated on the census in Los Angeles County, California (1940.) OBITUARY - Orange County Register, The (Santa Ana, CA), Sunday, August 27, 2000, Edition: MORNING, Page: b9

Robert "Bob" Shuler Jr., 83, of Victorville, formerly of Santa Ana, a retired minister for Santa Ana United Methodist Church, died Aug. 25, 2000, of cancer. Services: 3 p.m. Sept. 10, Riverside First United Methodist Church, Riverside.
Survivors: Wife, Millie; daughters, Judy Turner, Jill Taylor, Jan Jones; sons, Bob III, Steve Brooks, Michael Brooks, Craig Brooks.

Citations

[S5329] Genealogy prepared by Bitsy (McLellan) McFarland, Source Medium: Book
[S2032] 1940 Census, California, Los Angeles County
[S2807] Book: Fighting Bob Shuler of Los Angeles, by Robert Shuler
[S2798] Book: Ancestral Sketches by LeRoy Reeves and the Family of Edward Reeves and Jane Melvin by Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins
[S4209] Divorce Records - California Divorce Index, 1966 - 1984 (Ancestry.com)
[S8903] Marriage Records - California, "California Marriage Index, 1960 - 1985" (Ancestry.com), Source Medium: Book
[S4861] Email from Willie Hardin Reeves Bivins dated October 12, 2001
[S6287] Genealogy prepared by JMorehead2008 (Ancestry.com)
[S5443] Genealogy prepared by Cathy (Crabtree) Cook, Source Medium: Book

Family Explorer

Dorothy Dill¹

F, #10471, b. 9 September 1918

Pedigree Link

Family: D.D Jack Cornett Shuler (b. 12 July 1918, d. 9 December 1962)

Son	D.D.S Jack Edward Shuler+
Daughter	Susan Shuler+
Son	Richard "Dick" Shuler+
Son	Gregg Montgomery Shuler+

BASIC FACTS

Dorothy Dill was born on 9 September 1918.¹ She and D.D Jack Cornett Shuler were married in 1938.¹

Dorothy Dill had reference number 10739. Dorothy later married Stanley Magnus Sundin. They lived in Orange County, California. Stanley died in 2002 and was buried in Rose Hills Cemetery, Whittier, Los Angeles County, California.

Citations

[S2798] Book: Ancestral Sketches by LeRoy Reeves and the Family of Edward Reeves and Jane Melvin by Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins

Family Explorer

D.D Jack Cornett Shuler^1,2,3,4

M, #10472, b. 12 July 1918, d. 9 December 1962

Parents

Father	Robert Pierce "Bob" Shuler (b. 4 August 1880, d. 11 September 1965)
Mother	Mary Eleanor "Nelle" Reeves (b. 1 June 1885, d. 4 August 1981)

Pedigree Link

Family 1: Dorothy Dill (b. 9 September 1918)

Son	D.D.S Jack Edward Shuler+
Daughter	Susan Shuler+
Son	Richard "Dick" Shuler+
Son	Gregg Montgomery Shuler+

Family 2: Ruth Campbell

Son	Todd Shuler
Son	Bill Shuler

BASIC FACTS

D.D Jack Cornett Shuler was born on 12 July 1918 in Paris, Lamar Co., Texas.² He and Dorothy Dill were married in 1938.² He and Ruth Campbell were married before 1960. He died on 9 December 1962, at age 44, in Los Angeles Co., California.⁵ He died in 1963, at age ~45.² He was buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles Co., California.⁶

D.D Jack Cornett Shuler had reference number 10740. He was an Evangelist.² He was educated Doctor of Divinity.² His Social Security Number was 553-16-9450.⁷ He was enumerated on the census in Los Angeles County, California (1940.)

Citations

[S5329] Genealogy prepared by Bitsy (McLellan) McFarland, Source Medium: Book
[S2798] Book: Ancestral Sketches by LeRoy Reeves and the Family of Edward Reeves and Jane Melvin by Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins
[S2032] 1940 Census, California, Los Angeles County
[S2646] Birth Certificate - Jack Cornett Shuler
[S2858] California Birth/Death Records (Internet)
[S4980] Find A Grave (Internet), Source Medium: Book
[S12398] Social Security Death Index, Source Medium: Book

Family Explorer

Phillip Ross "Phil" Shuler^1,2,3,4

M, #10473, b. 29 December 1924, d. 19 June 2009

Parents

Father	Robert Pierce "Bob" Shuler (b. 4 August 1880, d. 11 September 1965)
Mother	Mary Eleanor "Nelle" Reeves (b. 1 June 1885, d. 4 August 1981)

Pedigree Link

Family: Marie Lemmon

Daughter	Deborah Lou Shuler+
Daughter	Julie Marie Shuler+

BASIC FACTS

Phillip Ross "Phil" Shuler was born on 29 December 1924 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California.⁵ He and Marie Lemmon were married in 1948.² He died on 19 June 2009, at age 84, in Littletown, Arapahoe Co., California.⁶

Phillip Ross "Phil" Shuler had reference number 10741. He held the title Rev. He was a Minister, Evangelist.^5,2 He resided in Poway, California (1981); 1017 Southbriar Road, Rocky Mount, NC 27804 (1999.)² He was enumerated on the census in Los Angeles County, California (1940.)

Citations

[S5329] Genealogy prepared by Bitsy (McLellan) McFarland, Source Medium: Book
[S2798] Book: Ancestral Sketches by LeRoy Reeves and the Family of Edward Reeves and Jane Melvin by Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins
[S2858] California Birth/Death Records (Internet)
[S2032] 1940 Census, California, Los Angeles County
[S5443] Genealogy prepared by Cathy (Crabtree) Cook, Source Medium: Book
[S5846] Genealogy prepared by drossmarv (Ancestry.com)

Family Explorer

William A. Reeves, M.D¹

M, #10474, b. 7 January 1924, d. 12 September 2010

Parents

Father	William Rollin Reeves, Ii M.D (b. 28 July 1887, d. 3 January 1975)
Mother	Arline Carlisle Abbott (b. 14 November 1892, d. 29 September 1990)

Pedigree Link

Family: Ann Harwood McDuffie (b. 14 February 1925, d. 28 October 2001)

Daughter	Lauren Abbott Reeves+
Son	William Rollin "Bill" Reeves, III+
Son	Michael Stuart Reeves+

BASIC FACTS

William A. Reeves, M.D, was born on 7 January 1924 in Salinas, Monterey Co., California.^2,3 He and Ann Harwood McDuffie were married on 9 July 1948 in Pasadena, Los Angeles Co., California.⁴ He died on 12 September 2010, at age 86, in Los Altos, Santa Clara Co., California.^3,4

William A. Reeves, M.D, had reference number 10742. He was a Physician, OB in GYN, delivered thousands of babies during 40 years of private practice.^1,3 He was educated Graduated from Stanford University and Stanford School of Medicine.^1,3 He resided in of Los Altos, California.⁵ World War II, U.S. Navy, served in the Pacific.³ OBITUARY - San Jose Mercury News (CA), Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Deceased Name: William Reeves
San Francisco CA United States
Dr. William A. Reeves Resident of Los Altos, CA Born in Salinas, CA, on Jan. 7, 1924, fourth-generation Californian Dr. Bill Reeves rode to higher ground on Sept. 12, 2010 after a brief illness. Having served as a naval officer in the Pacific during WWII, Dr. Reeves graduated from Stanford University and Stanford School of Medicine. He began his OB/GYN career in Los Altos in 1955, delivering thousands of babies during his 40 years in private practice. Dr. Reeves was a founder of El Camino Hospital where he served as its first medical chief of staff. Dr. Reeves was heavily involved in the establishment of the RotaCare Free Health Clinic as well as starting the Older Adult Resource Center. He served for many years on the Hospital Board and remained active on the Foundation's Board until his death. Dr. Reeves was also a true steward of the land, the patriarch of the Cienega Del Gabilan Ranch near San Juan Bautista, a family working cattle ranch which he felt "was the glue that held the family together." An avid horseman, Dr. Reeves' love of nature and animals was only surpassed by his love of family and friends. He lived every day to the fullest and enjoyed the journey of life. Dr. Reeves was a member of the Los Altos Country Club, the Rancheros Visitadores group and a supporter of Stanford Athletics. Dr. Reeves is survived by his fiance, Pat Pierce; three children, Lauren Reeves Boyle (Darrell) of Los Gatos, Bill Reeves (Laura) of Los Altos, and Michael Reeves (Cindy) of San Juan Bautista; his sister Marilyn Baldocchi (Don), nephew and niece, all of San Francisco; seven grandchildren; and two great-nephews. He was predeceased by his wife Ann in 2001. A memorial service will be held at the Stanford Memorial Chapel on September 28 at 4:00pm. Spangler Mortuary of Los Altos, phone: 650-948-6619 is handling funeral arrangements. Donations in memory of Dr. Bill Reeves may be sent to El Camino Hospital Foundation, 2500 Grant Road, WIL 210, Mountain View, CA 94040. Checks should be made payable to El Camino Hospital Foundation.

Citations

[S2798] Book: Ancestral Sketches by LeRoy Reeves and the Family of Edward Reeves and Jane Melvin by Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins
[S2858] California Birth/Death Records (Internet)
[S12111] Obituary - William A. Reeves, M.D
[S7045] Genealogy prepared by Rdarrellboyle1 (Ancestry.com)
[S9438] Obituary - Arline Abbot Reeves

Family Explorer

Alfred Alexander "Alf" Taylor

M, #10475, b. 6 August 1848, d. 25 November 1931

Parents

Father	Nathaniel Green Taylor
Mother	Emmaline "Emma" Haynes (b. 2 April 1822, d. 16 November 1890)

Pedigree Link

BASIC FACTS

Alfred Alexander "Alf" Taylor was born on 6 August 1848. He died on 25 November 1931, at age 83.

Alfred Alexander "Alf" Taylor was also known as Alf. He had reference number 10743. He was a Governor of Tennessee.¹

Citations

[S4867] Email from Willie Reeves Hardin Bivins dated July 10, 2001 @ 9:15 PM