"Ridgeway Settlement" on Cane Creek was the next area to open up in the county. This settlement was located in the vincinity of Palmersville. Levi Mizell, Joseph Wilson and John Webb settled here before the county was organized. They were soon followed by the Ridgeways, Buckleys, Killebrews, Dr. Jublilee Rogers, Benjamin Bondurant, Richard Porter, Jeptha and Alfred Gardner and Robert Powell. A short time later they were followed by Nelson Nailing, Vincent Rust, Claiborne Stone, Thomas Parham, John H. (Hanner) Reavis and others.
Frm; NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS Vol One WEAKLEY CO TN
June 3, 1881-Charles Reavis was bitten by a copperhead snake last Wednesday, but owing to the thickness of the skin on the bottom of the foot, the place where he was bitten, it did no injury.
July 7, 1876-We are sorry to have to report the severe illness of our efficient and accomodating Postmaster, Dr. Isaac C. Reavis, who has been confined to his bed for several days, and was for a day or two considered in a dangerous condition, but we were glad to hear yesterday, was improving
July 7, 1876-L.W.. Reavis of this county, has been appointed route agent on the Nashville and Northwestern Road, vice W.F. Hamton removed, and we learn entered upon the discharge of his duties yesterday.
April 1, 1881-Dr. W. H. Porter, of Graves County, Kentucky, a first class dentist, and a genial, social gentleman, has formed a partnership with out townsman, Dr. J. M. Reavis, and they are prepared to make full or partial sets of teeth and execute all work in the dentist line with promptness and dispatched.
May 20, 1882- Lonnie Reavis and wife visited their brother here Sunday.
Orders of Publication/Chancery Ct, Dresden, Tn.
Friday, Sept 6, 1878 Dresden Democrat
W.R. Reavis, Executor Isaac C. Reavis, dec'd. vs
June C. Reavis et al.
Dresden Democrat March 4, 1881
Land Sale County Court, Weakley Co Tn
C.M. Reavis et al vs Edward Steele
Dresden Democrat April 01, 1881
Mrs. Baker of Gleason, accompanied by Miss Adkins,
has been visiting here several days-the former at Mr. J. A. Covington, and the later at Dr. J.M. Reavis
WEAKLEY CO TAX LIST-1832 John H. Revis 100 acres free people 1 slaves 1
REGISTER SURVEY BOOK Volume 2 pg 563-Isaac C. Reavis-Enters ninety-one acres of land on the middle fork of the Obion River beginning at the southwest corner of an entry in the name of George McPherson. Surveyed 2nd February 1834
pg 754-Elijah W. Revis-Enters fifty-eight acres of land east of the meridian line, being part of an entry in the name of Eli Eley, beginning at the southwest corner of the original entry. Surveyed June 16, 1846.
Isaac C. Reavis and W.R. Reavis are listed as asst.
Marshalls on the 1870 Weakley Co tn census
Tennessee the Volunteer State Vol 3
White County
Re: Grandsons of Daniel Green Brown and Nancy Reavis
"Prominent in the newspaper and printing circles of White county are James Crockett and Daniel Aquilla Brown, publishers of the Sparta News at Sparta. They are twins and were born in White county, on the 6th of October, 1876, sons of Daniel and Alice (England) Brown, paternal grandfather was Daniel Brown of North Carolina. His wife was Nancy Reaves likewise of that state. Daniel Green Brown was born in 1850 and he is now retired frm active business life. Mrs. Brown was born in 1854. The twins have three sisters and one brother: Mary, Charley Ann, Sopina and Joshua."
MADISON CO TN GOODSPEEDS BIOGRAPHIES
Jas. M. Reavis, Sr., member of J.M. Reavis & Son, tin, stove, glass and queensware merchants, was born July 31, 1834, in Rutherford Co., N.C., and is of a family of four sons and two daughters, born to Thos. c. and Alice (Laws) Reavis, natives of Granville and Orange Counties, N.C., father and mother respectively. They were married in Orange County, and followed farming until they moved to this county in 1834; then followed shoe-making a few years, after which he began the practice of denistry about 1840, continuing the same in Jackson until his death in 1858, the mother following in 1871. He was city marshal of Jackson a number of years prior to his death. Our subject remained at home til 1856, when he went to New Orleans and there completed the tinners' trade, returning in 1860. He followed his trade until the beginning of hostilities between the North and South. He then enlisted, and was assigned to the engineer corps, under Forrest, remained in the service until the close of the war, and in Mary 1866, embarked in his present line in Jackson. In February, 1862, he married Margaret A. Brown, a native of Kentucky to whom three sons and one daughter have been born, Frank, Alice, Hartwell and James L. Hartwell deceased. He is a member of IOOF and his wife member of the First Methodist Church"
HX OF VERNON CO MO - excerpts of pgs 858 and 859: Montevallo was regularly incorportated by the county cout 2-9-1860, on petition of F. M. German, John Dade, Wm. T. Maddox and others. The first board of trustees consisted of F. G. (Finton Goss) Reaves, John Dade, Jesse T. Griggs, W. B. Randolph and Wm. James
In the year 1857, Mr. F. G. Reavis (Finton Goss) came from Leesville, Henry County to Montevallo and established a store and soon after built and operated a carding machine. At the outbreak of the war the town contained three stores: Brown's, Reavis', and Weidemyer's
"THE HX OF BOND AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES IL" pub 1882
p.30-"The first Circuit Court was held at Hill's Station, on Monday, Mary 30, 1817....The following persons served as grand jurors...Solomon Reavis....Charles Reavis...."
p.96-This is just a listing of early settlers. Included are "Reavis, Isham, early settler; Reavis, Hiram, Isam T., and Ewing, sons of Isham"
p.152-This is about Fairview Precinct. "Among the first white men to locate here, probably was Isham Reavis, who came here from Maryland (questionable) with his family prior to the War of 1812. Some time after this the Reaves famiy removed to Kentucky near Bowling green, and after remaining there for awhile, again moved to this state and settled in Madison County, near Collinsville. In 1832, Isam Reaves again moved to this county and settled in what is now Fairview Precinct. He died on the old Reaves farm, which he entered at a cost of fifty cents per acre. He participated in the war of 1812 (believe means Black Hawk War), on the Beaver Creek side. In one of the battles, two of his comrades named Prewitt and Gratts were killed by the Indians, and Joseph Gratt's father, Thomas Higgins and William Burgess were wounded. Gen. Whitesides was also wounded at the same time. This occurred about the close of the war. Hiram Reaves, the son of Isam Reaves, was born in this county, four miles south of Greenville, and within one mile of the old fort on Shoal Creek, on the 10th of Jun, 1816, and is probably the oldest resident now living in the county who was born in it. He resides in the southeast corner of Fairview Precinct and is totally blind."
p.156- "The town of Fairview lies eight miles nearly east of Greenville, in Section ??, Township 5, Range 2. It was surveyed by R. K. Dewey for the proprietors, E.P. Matthews and John Reaves, on the 28th day of January, 1857."
Various Missouri Records
W. H. Reavis, Mayor, Town of Brownville, Missouri Sylavus Reavis, P.O., Little Rock, County of Saline, Missouri. Son of Edward and Sarah A. Reavis, born 1-28-1851. In 1870 he went to Pettis County, Mo, where he lived for about a year, then on to St. Clair County. He returned to Saline County until his death. On 11-22-1871 he married Kassie C. Smith. They have two boys and two girls. He is a plasterer by trade, but a farmer as well.
"Saline County, Missouri": Warren Reavis married Margaret Smelzer, 1-5-1823, by the Rev. Nowlin (another record says he was married by Isham Reavis). He was the son of Edward, grandson of Isham.
The Presidential contest of 1828, between Jackson and Adams, showed Jackson carried Saline County and Missouri. In Blackwater Township at the homoe of Jesse Swope, the judges were Reuben E. Gentry, Jesse Swope and Solomon Reavis, son of Isham.
'HX OF HENRY AND ST CLAIR COUNTIES MO.'
"Edwin M. Reavis, deceased, pioneer of Bear Creek Township, was born in Kentucky, October 13, 1830, and departed this life in Henry County, March 30, 1882. He was the son of Edwin M. Reavis of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Edwin M. Reavis was married in Texas in the fall of 1858 to Mary Margaret Hunt, born November 29, 1836, in Saline County, Missouri; the daughter of William and Azubah Hunt....Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Reavis came to Henry County and lived for a few years upon the farm he rented of E.B. Hunt until 1865. They then bought a farm of 100 acres of Joseph Capehart. This farm has been divided since Mr. Reavis' death and the home place, which is one of the prettiest improved placed in Henry County; consists of sixty acres. Formerly there was a large orchard on the place, but several seasons of drought have played havoc with the trees. During the Civil War the family suffered from the depredations of Jayhawkers and lost part of their live stock. The children born to Edwin M. and Mary Reavis are as follows: Elizabeth C. b Aug 8 1859, died 1875, Susan M., William,and Sun (Triplets) died in infancy, born Aug 2, 1861, the former of whom died Noember 11, 1867; William E. Reavis at home. Mrs. Mary Jane Chrissman, a widow living at LaDue, Mo; John a. born April 6, 1865, died August 24, 1866; James B. born October 18, 1866, died November 4, 1867; Nancy E. wife of R. C. Grigsby, LaDue, Mo.; Alice C., William E. at home with their mother; Joseph H., Drady, ND, Elmer S., California, infant son born and died December 6, 1879; Florence M. born August 6, 1882, died November 4, 1897,; Joseph H. born September 6, 1872, died November 29, 1918. Mrs. Reavis has six grandchildren; Edwin, Winona, Glenbourne and Joseph, children of Joseph Reavis. Elmer S. has a daughter, Florence. Nannie Grigsby has one son, Cecil. Mrs. Reavis and her son are members of the Bear Creek Methodist Church. In the early days she attended the Old Adobe Church...........The old-timers whom she knew in the early days were Mrs. Kintner, Mrs. Nick Erhart, and Mrs. Cleghorn, who were the first she met in this part of Henry County. She recalls that they would attend divine service at the Adobe church, coming on horseback, and that the prairie grass which grew so luxuriantly on the unbroken prairie land was as high as the horse's back. Deer and game were plantiful and there were great droves of wild turkeys, quail and prairie chickens, all of which have disappeared with the settlin gup of the country. Mrs. Reavis has many of curios and family relics which have been handed down to her from her ancestors, among them being an old walnut chest which was given her by Grandma Hunt and was made by Isaac Whitaker in 1795. This chest was made for his daughter, May Whitaker in North Carolina. He was Mary M. Hunt Reavis' great-great uncle."
Unk source: "U.S. (Van) REAVIS"
History of Henry County pp 475-477
In the year 1854 D.B. Reavis put up a circular sawmill near where the old carding machine now stands, and shortly after sold to Andrew Jackson Lee one acre of land and in the course of a few months a village was born. As the village was nameless the citizens got together and decided to give it a name. One proposed "Centreville", another "Starvation Point", (this man had gone without his dinner), another "Pinch-him-slyly", still another "Hardscrabble", and again "Niggerhead", but at last we settled unamiously on "Leesville", after its founder."
U.S. Van Reavis was born near Yadkinville, North Carolina, Jul 12, 1870. He was the second son of Calvin and Amanda (Whitehead) Reavis. At that time North Carolina was a timbered area and the land was rocky and very poor. Life there was very hard. Van earned his first nickel by holding a candle most of the night while his uncle built a casket. While running home he tripped ad fell, losing his nickel among the leaves. He always remembered his only christmas present while he was a child; it was a lead pencil with an eraser on it. A sister of Amanda Whitehead Reavis, Jane Whitehead Money, encouraged the family to come to Nodaway County (Mo) in 1890. They came with nine of their children and settled between Burlington Junction and Quitman. In October, 1898 Van married Lou Glenn, who died 3 years later. One child, Fern, was born. In October, 1903 he married Nora Glann, a cousin of Lou. They lived on farms in the Burlington Junction area, until 1923, when they moved to Burlington Junction. They lived there 29 years. He enjoyed his work in Burlington Junction and was Marshall for severl years. Flowers, especially roses, were his hobby. He had a great love for little children...Article "The Whitehead Family by Frances Casstevens and Dorothy Atkins"..Jesse Whitehead, son of William and Sarah Whitehead, was born about 1820. He was a wagonmaker according to the 1850 Surry/Yadkin census. He married Lucinda, and had at least four children: Sally, born 1842, Mary Jane, born 1846 and married on Oct 25, 1860, William L. Money; Margaret born 1849; Amanda, born after 1850, married Calvin Reavis, son of John and Millie Reavis on January 20 1868"
Frm "TN THE VOLUNTEER STATE" Vol 2
Dr. Jesse Jerome Reavis, born Henderson County, Kentucky on 18th July, 1887; his parents being William L. and Laura (Broadwell) Reavis, the former born in Indiana in 1850, while the latter was born in the year 1852 and passed away in 1918. William L. Reavis who devoted his attention to general agricultural pursuits throughtout his active life, is now living retired in teh enjoyment of well earned rest. The paternal grandparents of Dr. Reavis of this review were Captain William and Sarah (Burton) Reavis of Indiana, the former a soldier of the Civil war, while his grandparents in the maternal line were Jerome and Sallie (Baskett) Broadwell of Kentucky.
On the 20th of November, 1904, occurred the marriage of Mr. Wilson to Miss Hattie Reavis a native of Jackson and a daughter of R. A. and Frances (Williams) Reavis. Her father served from 1861-1865 in General Forrest's command during the Civil war. He was a native of Madison County, this state, and his famiy were among the early settlers here. At the close of the war he returned to Madison County, located at Jackson and engaged in tin and metal shop contracting for some years. He was a successful business man. His demise in 1912 came as a severe blow to his family and many friends. Mr and Mrs Wilson are the parents of five children: Elsie, Dorothy, Gladys, Paul M. Jr and Robert.
On the 22nd of February, 1910 at Waynesboro, Tennessee, Dr. Reavis was united in marriage to Miss Wilton Smith, a daughter of Dr. Sam and Laura (Craig) Smith and granddaughter of the late Captain P.H. Craig. They have become parents of four children, as follows: Terrell who was born in 1910 and passed away in 1912, Craig, whose birth occurred in 1912, Jesse, born in 1917; and Joe Meadors, whose natal year was 1920
Jesse J. Reavis obtained his education in the public schools of Evansville, Indiana, and later in preparation for a professional career entered the University of Tennessee, from which he received the degree of D.D.s. in 1908. He then began practice in Texas, remaining in that state for six years, on the expiration of which period he returned to Tennessee and opened an office at Lawrenceburg, where he has since continued in the work of his profession. An extensive practice has been accorded him in regocnition of his pronounced skill in the field of his chosen calling and he enjoys an enviable reputation as one fo the prominent and proficient dentists of Lawrence county. He was commissioned a first lieutenant in the US Dental Reserve Corps on the 23rd of July, 1917, but was never called for service.
Frm: "A PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL REC OF BOONE AND CLINTON COUNTIES, INDIANA" pub 1895 trans by C. Brown p.844-845** JOSEPH G REVIS, one of the practical farmers of Rose Township, Clinton county, Ind., son of Enoch Revis, was born in Butler county, Ohio, September 21, 1838, and came with his father to Clinton county, Ind., in 1845, when he was seven years old. Joseph G. received a common education, became a farmer and married Charlotte C. Bailey, August 4, 1872, daughter of Philip P. and Hagar (Johnson) Bailey. To Mr and Mrs Revis was born one child, Milford W. Mr. Revis (Milford W.) died October 26, 1887. After marriage Mr. Revis settled on a farm three and one-half miles north of Colfax, Ind., and here lived until 1890, when he married on July 29, Catherine A. Waget, nee Catherine Trentz. Peter Trentz, her father, was born in Saarlovis, Germany, lived in the town of Linbach, and was a farmer,. His father was also Peter Trentz, and the family have been farmers for generations. The elder Trentz owned a farm of twenty acres, which was a good property for that county. He and wife were the parents of six children: Peter, Nicholas, Catherine, John, Peter and Mary. Besides his farm, he kept a bakery and hotel; in his later life had a grocery and butcher shop, and was a well-to-do man. He and his wife were members of the Catholic church. In July, 1885, Mr. Trentz came to America, as two of his children-Catherine A. and Peter-had settled in this country. Mr. Trentz bought a farm of 120 acres in Stark county, Ind., one mile from Hamlet, and there he still lives. Catherine A. Trentz, wife of our subject, married, in Germany, John Waget, who had been to America and returned to Germany. He then came back to this country and settled on the farm where J.G. Revis now lives, consisting of 129 acres, which is the old Wolf farm, near Edna Mills. To Mr. and Mrs. Waget was born one daughter, Annie. Mr. Waget died January 12, 1886, aged fifty years. Mr. and Mrs. Revis reside on the Waget homestead and have one child, Leonie. Both Mr. and Mrs. Revis are members of the Baptist church, and politically Mr. Revis is a democrat, and he has been supervisor.
Enoch Revis, father of J.G. Revis, is one of the pioneers and the oldest man in Ross township, if not in Clinton county, being eighty-seven years old. He springs from sterling English stock on his father's side, and on his mother's side from the Irish. Jesse Revis was the grandfather of Enoch, was born in Surry county, N.C., and his mother's side from the Irish. Jesse Revis was the grandfather of Enoch, was born in Surry county, N.C., and was a farmer....(among his children were: John, David, Edward, Susan, Nancy, Jesse and Joel)...He lived to be one hundred years old and died on his farm in Surry county, N.C. He was a prominent man, yet remembered by our subject, who was in his nineteenth year when he died.
Edward Reavis, the father of Enoch, was born in Surry county, NC, was a farmer, married in his native county, Mary, daughter of William and Elizabeth(Alexander)Hattick/Haddock. Mr. Revis settled on the old home farm, and here passed all his days. He and wife were the parents of seven children; William, John, Enoch, Asbury, Elizabeth, Lydia and Mary (also believed to have had a son Henry). Mr and Mrs Revis were members of the Baptist church. He died at the age of about forty years, on his farm, of fever After the death of her husband, Mrs. (Mary) Revis married Jerry(Jeremiah)Patrick, and they had three children; Jerry, Sarah and Mattie. She lived to be an aged woman and died in Ashe county,N.C.
Enoch Revis, fther of J.G. Revis, was born July 10, 1807, on his father's farm, remainiing there until twenty-three years old. He married in 1829, Tempie Revis.................... (later doc reveal her to be Temperance d/o John-2, son of Edward-1 and Sarah Gilliam Reavis). In 1830 Enoch Revis moved to Butler
county, Ohio, where he lived fifteen years on a farm. He and wife are the parents of five children: Mary, John, Joseph G., Elsie and Elizabeth.
Enoch Revis came to Indiana in 1845 and settled on his present land, then covered by heavy timber, and which by industry and thrifthe cleared up and made a good home. Mrs. Revis died and he married widow Lucy Cripe, (w/o Jonathon), formerly Miss Faniels, a daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Cockran) Daniels. Mr. Daniels was an old settler of Carroll county, Ind., frm Scioto county, Ohio, and settled in Indiana as a pioneer in 1827, when the Indiand and wild game were plentiful. To Mr. and Mrs. Daniels were born eleven children; Sophia, Eliza, Jesse, Stephen, Jane, Elizabeth, Sarah and Lucy (twins), Samuel, Mary and William. Mr. Daniels was a prosperous farmer and died aged sixty-one years. His father, Nehemiah Daniels, was a farmer of Virginia and here Samuel was born. Nehemiah Daniels was killed in battle, in the Revolutionary war.
To Mr. and Mrs. Revis(Enoch and Lucy) were born six children: Lucy R., Catherine M. Martha A., Daniel, Hannah and Thersa. Enoch Revis has remained on his present homestead since he settled there, a residence of one-half a century. Mrs. and Mrs. Revis are members of the Regular Baptist church, and Mr. Revis is an honest and respected citizen, having been a very industrious and hardworking man throughout his life, and in his younger days endured the hardships and privations of the pioneer. He has always stood high for his integrity of character, and throughout his long life has maintained the confidence and respect of the people.
Daniel Reavis, son of above and brother of J.G. Revis born November 2, 1856, received a good common education, became a farmer and married Clara Stinson, daughter of Henry and Rosa (Bailey) Stincon. To Mr. and Mrs. Revis has been born three children; Walter H., Wilson f., and L.d. Mr. Revis is a practical farmer and manages the home farm. He and wife are members of the Missionary Baptist church, and in politics he is a democrat.
pg 693-694 GOCHENAUER AND REVIS
"DAVID GOCHENAUER,(s/o William Gochenauer and Mary A. Hoffman, and g'son of John gochenauer and Ms. Fisher)
was born January 26, 1832, on a farm on Cedar Creek, Shenandoah County, Va., and was but five years old when he first left Virginia, yet he can still remember the old homestead and the journey through the wilderness frm Ohio to Indiana when ten years of age, the trip being made with horses and wagons - he driving the cattle. He was brought up a farmer, was a school-teacher when a young man, and married at the age of twenty-three years, Mary REVIS, daughter of Enoch REVIS, of Ross township, and to Mr and Mrs. Gochenauer were born seven children, who lived to reach manhood and womanhood: Levi, Mary, Harrison, W. E., Susan C. (died a married woman, aged twenty-seven years), Joseph Mc, and Jeremiah. After marriage Mr. Cochenauer settled in Ross Township (Clinton Co Ind), on his father's old homestead, and then remained until he bought a farm of eighty acres to the east, on which he settled in September, 1864, it then consisting of 160 acres, and which he has since cleared and improved. Mrs Gochenauer died February 17, 1874, and Mr. Cochenauer married, December 25, 1877, Margery H. Hurley....to Mr and Mrs. Gochenauer has been born one child, Annie E., and both parents are members of the Conservative German Baptist Church."
BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF MADISON CO IND 1978
by Helen M.. Harvey Baumer
RALPH BAXTER REAVIS
I was born September 3, 1898 the son of John Franklin Reavis (April2, 1864-June 13, 1916). He was the son of Jesse Franklin Reavis (December 1838-August 25, 1926) and Mary Jane Hughes (July 10 18138-April 4, 1922). On June 28, 1860 he married my mother, Emma Josephine Baxter (July 1864-August 26, 1951). Her parents were Jeremiah Baxter (1833-January 1, 1901) and Melinda Shields of Stroud. My parents were married on Marsh 27, 1895 by Elder C. R. Taylor
I live and have always lived on the same farm where I was born. It was heired by my great-grandmother, Mary Jane Hughes Reavis(?). It was sold to her oldest daughter, Miriah Reavis Vinson, who in turn, sold it to my father, John Franklin Reavis. The original house burned about 1907.
On December 25, 1930, I married Cleo Mae Elsworth. Cleo was born July 26, 1911....
FRM CLARION PRINCETON DAILY NEWSPAPER, GIBSON CO IND
HX OF GIBSON COUNTY - FRANCISCO
William Reavis and his wife in 1817 settled near what is now Francisco after a tedious trip on pack horses from North Carolina. Francisco was built on te line of the old Wabash and Erie Canal.
HX OF WARRICK, SPENCER AND PERRY COUNTIES, IND BY GOODSPEED BROS 7 CO PUB 1885
'WILLIAM J. REAVIS, a physician at Richland City, is a native of Gibson County, Ins and was born September 7, 1853, and is the eldest of his prnets' six children. The father and mother were James R. and Margarte J. (Chambers) Reavis. William J. received a common school education at home, and at the age of eighteen years entered Fort Branch college, where he remained two years. After this he taught school for six years, and in 1876 began reading medicine in the office of Drs. Scales and Tyner, at Boonville. During the termin of 1877-78 he attended the Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati. After that he located in the practice at Richland City, where he yet resides, and has a large practice. He was united in matrimony to Florence G. Allen, April 6, 1879. She is a native of Ohio. The doctor is a Republican and member of I.O.O. F."
"HISTORY OF POWESHIEK CO., IOWA" pub 1911 Vol 11 pg`46-57
A well kept farm of 160 acres in Washington township which conveys the impression of comfort and prosperity is the homestead of Alvin D. Rayl. He was born in this township April 24, 1864, a son of Hymelius and Sarah J. (macy) Rayl.(he married first May Fish 1896)
On 25th of December 1901, Mr Rayl was married to Miss. Molly J. Revis, a daughter of J.W. (*James Washington, s/o Joseph, s/o William W.) and Catharine Revis. of Grinnell, Iowa. Three children have been born to Mr and Mrs Rayl.
Clifford Fred Rayl b 1902, Grinnell, Poweshiek Co Ia
Elsie Rayl b 1904, Poseshiek County, Ia
Delbert Rayl b Jun 1905, Poweshiek Co, Ia d 1986
Thelma b Jul 1907 Poweshiek Co Id
Opal Rayl b Dec 1911, Grinnell , Poweshiek Co Ia d 1977
m/Richard Gault
Edna Rayl b 1916 Grinnell, Poweshiek Co Ia
Ruth Rayl b1924 Grinnell, Poweshiek co IaK
"HISTORIC VANCE COUNTY, NC.. by J.B. Watkins, Jr 1941
Churches and Schools of Henderson
1817 teacher Jesse J. Kelly..taught in a grove..he was
16 yrs old..one student was Elizabeth Reavis 6 yrs old
d/o Lewis Reavis
1818-1822 Miss Drucilla Macon boarded at home of Lewis
Reavis and taught a school for girls at Chalk Level; Elizabeth Reavis attended this school.
1823 Lewis Reavis taught a school in a small house
1830-1840 Thomas Reavis, brother of Lewis Reavis taught
school
pg.36 CITY OF HENDERSON CO NC Chalk Level, north of the pre-sent city proper was the first location, set in the "hog pasture" of Lewis Reavis 3000 acre farm, for which he donated the land. When the question of a namecame up, the people wanted to name the new city Reavisville for Lewis Reavis, but he refused the hoonor and asked that it be named "Henderson" for his friend "Chief Justice Leonard Henderson" who had died in 1833, also for the son of Lawyer Archibald Henderson
pg.38 In 1811 Lewis Reavis built a house, where he lived, and was the oldest house until it was torn down a year or so ago" ca1940.
Mr. (Lewis) Reavis gave the railroad ten acres of land and the right of way for over three miles of trackage through his 3,000 acres farm. Lewis Reavis was the first postmaster, and his house was used for many years as the city hotel.
"HX OF NEW LEBANON, COOPER CO MO'
Cumberland Presbyrterian Church 1847-1867
Member received by recommendation Aug 15, 1847, William
D. Reavis
Removal without letter-William D. Reavis
Marriage Benjamin Franklin Reavis (d 1936 buried in Glendale, California) m/Jun 1890 Mary Ruffret Starke;
they had no chn, she married 2d Wm. O. Hardin
New Lebanon Cemetery
Lizzie Cordry (nee Gentry) 1864-1953 m#2 William Eugene
Reavis
LOGAN CO ARK ITS HX AND ITS PEOPLE BY LOGAN CO HX SOC
1987...EXCERPT JOHN HENRY REVIS; Info submitted by Alice Revis Parks
John Henry Revis married Hazel Eloise Morgan on April 27, 1928 at Dayton Ten. John was born May 20, 1906, to Richard and Linnie Revis at Graysville, Tn.
Hazel was born May 29, 1913, to Edd V. and Mary Alice Henderson Morgan at Chattanooga, Tn.
Children were William Edward b Dec 1929, Alice Eloise born Sep 1931, Nettie Rosie Lee born Mar 1934 died May 1935 and buried at the French Cemetery near Dayton. Reta Rozila b Jun 1947.
John Henry Revis passed away December 21, 1969 at age 63; Hazel Eloise Revis passed away on February 14, 1986 at age 72. (They are buried at Baxley Cemetery
Logan County Arkansas).
EARLY SETTLERS OF MACON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
There seems to have been no immigration in 1823, but in 1824 came the Ward families from the vincinity of Vandalia. John Ward, Sr., was a native of England, born in 1769. In his youth he emigratedto SC where he married Mary (Madole) Ward, a native of Ireland, born in 1768. The removed to Tn, and then in a few years to Logan county, Kentucky, where Mr. Ward died. The mother remained until October, 1819, at which time the family removed to the youthful State of Illinois, settling eleven miles frm Vandalia. On arriving in the country they settled on the south side of the river. The family was a large one. The eldest son, Jerry, was born in SC in 1788. He married in Kentucky, removed from this county first to Mo and then to Tx., where he resided till he death. John Ward, Jr. was also a native of SC, and was married in Ky. He had a family of seventeen children; died in 1831 and was buried at Walnut Grove. James, also was born in SC, and was married in Ky. He went to Mo, then to Tx, where he died. Sarah, Margaret, Polly and Lucy were all born in SC. Sarah became teh wife of Wm Gambrel, in Ky, and died in Tx. Margaret was married in Ky to Elisha Freeman, one of the first commissioners of this county. She died in 1873. Polly married Wm Freeman, and lives in Mo. Lucy became the wife of Hiram Reavis, and became a resident of Mo. William was born in SC in 1802, and came to Illinois in 1819. He was the father of Franklin, Hiram and John Ward. The other children were Thomas, born in 1804, who died in christian county; Nancy, born in 1806, who died in Missouri, and whose children yet live there; and Lewis B., born in 1809. To the latter we are indebted for the information relating to the family.
THE ORIGINS OF PLEASANT MOUND ILLINOIS
SOURCE: Many Journeys by Harold C Leidner
It cannot be definitely stated just who the first Settlers of this area are but, some of the earliest known to have settled here starting around 1829 in to the 1830's were: Thomas Harper, Margaret Nesbit, John Reeves, Bennett Seagraves, William and Jermiah Stubblefield, ISHAM REAVIS, Frederick Smith, Morgan, Jordan, and William Muray, Kendrick Durham, Elisha Smith, Anson Bates, Joseph Rench, JACOB CRIPE, John Henry Taylor, Samuel Eakins, Andrew and Josepph Williams, John Henry Perkins, and Joseph Dension."
VALLEY VIEW, TEXAS (Source unknown)
In 1870 7 familes frm Cooper Co., Mo., came to settle on Spring Creek, 10 miles south of Gainesville. These families were Capt. L.W. Lee, A.D. Jones, Gilbert French (s/o French & Martha Reavis-5, Andrew A.-4, Davi-3, James-2) Richard McCubbin, Andrew Hill, Joseph Reavis(Joseph Clayton Reavis s/o Andrew A.-4, Dav-3, Jas-2) and William Obuch. This party of Missourians was led by Capt. Lee. The party coming frm Missouri had first stopped at Sherman in the fall of 1869 to winter there.
WASHINGTON CO IDAHO HISTORY (source unknown)
Chap. 5 J.H. Reavis, later for many years a resident of Middle Valley, started a small store in town, which he sold that fall to Kaufman, Haas and Durkheimer of Baker, who enlarged the building and put in a large stock of general merchandise.
Chap. 15 "This is to certify that at a democratic primary election held in Middle Valley precinct, John J. Reavis was duly elected a delegate to the democratic county convention to be held at Sauria on the Salubria on the __ day of Oct 189?..As John's credentials showed that he had received a majority of the party vote, he was seated as a member of the convention to represent the democracy of his precinct"
FRANCISCO, GIBSON CO INDIANA (excerpt frm Princeton Daily Clarion, Gibson co column..date unknown)
William REAVIS and his wife in 1817 settled near what is now Francisco after a tedious trip on pack horses from North Carolina. Francisco was built on the line of the Old Wabash and Erie Canal. (br)
SAN SABA COUNTY HX (TX) 1856-1983 Marshall Reavis
(s/o George W-6, James Jackson-5 James-4 Edw-3 Jas-2)
His parents were George W. and Mary Elizabeth (Marshall) Reavis. He was born Oct 7, 1894 in Ark and had three sisters; Cora, Mattie and Lillie, and one brother Oliver. Marshall married Ruby Orr in 1911, had one daughter, Jewell b 1914 and a son Doyle b 1916 (was killed in WW II)
SAN SABA STAR (TX) NEWSPAPER NOV 10, 1938
"Honoring the World War Veterans of San Saba county, drafted into Army-Serial Number 750-Order #289-Marshall Eli Reavis, registrant of the class of Jun 5, 1917, Age 22 Occupation: Barber. Date of induction or enlistment Jun 25, 1918"
THE CALL OF THE SAN SABA" prob Wm Posey s/o JJ-5
"Uncle Bill Reavis, a farmer too, was among the early Locker settlers, and he reared several orphan children"
COOPER COUNTY MO 1835 TAX LIST
Reavis, Andrew A. 80 Acres
orig patent 300 acres
Reavis, Henry L. 16 acres
Reavis, James 167 acres
orig patent Joseph A. Reavis 400 acres
Reavis, James 20 acres
Reavis, Jonathon
Reavis, Joseph 160 acres
Reavis, Samuel D. 80 acres
orig Samuel D. Reavis
Ravis, Sarah
Reavis, W. T. 80 acres
'A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF JOHNSON AND HILL COUNTIES, TEXAS' PUB 1892
William Reavis, from firm of Reavis & Young, real-estate dealers was botrn Lincoln co, Tenn in 1836-the second of 8 children. He is son of W.A. Reavis, born in NC in 1807. He was a physician and practiced in Alabama and Texas. The grandfather of our subject, Edwin Reavis, was a native of Norfolk, Va. and was a farmer by occupation. He was born in 1785 and a direct descendant of four brothers who emigrated from England and settled in the US. William's mother was Julia Hinkle, native of NC and of German ancestry. His brothers/sisters are: wife of J.P. Thompson, Mr. W.
B. Johnson, eliz the wife of G.C. Orenbaum of Hill county.
William Reavis received common school education. At age of 17 he famed when 10 yrs old was salesman with A.S. Hayler of Palestin, Anderson Co, Texas for 6 uears. He went into business for himself at Rutersville, Leon Co until 1865 and them came to Hillsboro and opened a general merchandise store for 12 years. From 1875-1866 and then went back to Hillsboro for business endeavors. Mr. William Reavis hada 260 acre farm in precinct #2 (Hill County) and other real estate in Hillsboro plus was a stockholder in Hillsboro Mills.(br)
In 1867 he married Miss Dora Cats, dau of L.W. Cats, native of Mississippi who came to Hill county in 1850 and was the County Judge before the war. Wm and Dora had 5 children: Harvy, Rex, Ada, Kate and one deceased
by 1892. William was an Elder in the old school Presbyterian Church, member of Masonic order, and secretary of the lodge a number of years and is entirely a self made and self sustaining Man. (pgs 662-663)
HISTORY OF POWESHIEK CO, IOWA VOL 11 PUB 1911 PG 146-57
(Alvin D. Rayl m/Molly J Revis d/o J.W. & Catherine)
"A well kept farm of 160 acres in Washington Township which conveys the impression of comfort and prosperity is the homesstead of Alvin d. Rayl. He was born in this township April 24, 1864, a son of Hymelius and Sarah J. (Macy) Rayl.....
On the 25th of December, 1901, Mr. Rayl was married to
Miss Molly J. (*Mary Jane) Revis, a daughter of J.W. and Catherine Revis, of Grinnell, Iowa.......
HX OF LOGAN COUNTY, OKL...pg.554 by Marie Thomas
MABEL AND FREDDY REVIS
Mabel Mary Willson was born Aug. 13, 1889 in Platt Co., Kan. to Walter Samuel and Hattie Virginia Willson. She came to Oklahoma with her parents when just a few weeks old. She gre up on the family farm in Bear Creek Township southeast of Guthrie, attended Irvin School and then Logan County High School. She attended what is now called Central State University in Edmond, obtained her teacher's certificate and stated teaching at a school in Caddo Co. She taught school at Irvin for one term and while teaching at Riverside School north of Guthrie in 1910, she met Freddy Eyssell Revis, who came to visit his aunt, in whose home Mabel boarded while teaching school.
Freddy Dysell Revis was born on Sept. 16, 1890 in Cloverdale, Chautauqua Co., Kan. to Mary Alice (Woody) and Sylvester s. Revis. He came to Oklahoma in 1905 with his parents who settled on a farm near Tryon. He attended school in Tyron and played baseball on their term. He loved baseball an played and coached the game all during his life. He met and courted Mabel Willson and Feb. 22, 1911 they were married in Guthrie. They lived in Tyron for a few months and then moved to a farm near Meridian. Their first son was born Nov. 23, 1911, prematurely and lived only a few hours. He is buried in Cooper Cemetery. They moved to Guthrie in 1912 where Fred did carpenter work and March 3, 1913 their daughter Leona Marie Revis was born. That summer they moved to Meridian where he helped his father-in-law run the cotton gin.
In 1915 they were pursuaded to go toSouth Dakota and
go into the sheep business with a childhood friend, so they moved to Faith, S.D. that years and started his business of land leased from the Sious Indians. Oct. 6, 1917 their son sylvester Leo Revis was born in Faith, S.D.
Life in a sheep camp is a rigorous one, especially in the winter, so Eyssell moved his family to Faith during the winter months.. Jan. 13, 1920 their son James Walter Revis was born in Faith, S.D.
During the 1920's the sheep business suffered severe setbacks so Eyssell sold his part of the business to his partner and moved the family to Idaho where he heard of much work and few laborers. They settled in Wilder, where he again took up his trade as a carpenter.
Jan. 3, 1926 their youngest son, Freddy Eyssell Revis, Jr was born in Wilder. During that summer Mabel received a request frm her father to come home and care for her mother who was in ill health. There is a saying among the folks of this area that if you evern drink water frm "Old Bear Creek" you will always return there. So true to that old saying, in Auguust 1926 Mabel and Eyssell returned to her old home on Bear Creek and cared for mother until her mohter's death July 30, 1928.
Jan 1, 1958 Eyssell died at his home on East Vilas and is buried in Summit View Cemetery.
Mabel lived on in her home on East Vilas until Jan 1970, when due to ill health she went to stay with her daughter. March 29, 1970 she died peacefully in her sleep and is buried beside her husband in Summit View.
A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL OF JOHNSON AND HILL COUNTIES TEXAS, LEWIS PUR CO 1882..PGS 662-663
William Andrew Reavis from firm of Reavis and Young, real estate dealers was born in Lincoln co Tn in 1836, the 2nd of 8 children of W.A. Reavis born in NC in 1807. He was a physician and Minister of the Gospel and practiced in Alabama and Texas. The grandfather of our subject Edwin Reavis, was a native of Norfolk Va and was a farmer. He was born in 1785 and a direct descendant of four brothers who emigrated frm England and settled in the colony of Va. Their descendants are the only family of the name in the US. William's mother was Julia Hinkle, native of NC and of German ancestry. His brothers and sisters are wife of J.P. Thomson, Mrs. W. B. Johnson, Eliz wife of G.C. Orenbaum of Hill County.
William Reavis received common school education. At the age of 17 he farmed, when 20 years old was salesman with A.S. Hayter of Palestine, Anderson Co Tx for 6 years. He went into business for himself at Rutersville, Leon co until 1865 and then came to Hillsboro and opened a general merchandise store for 12 years. From 1875-1886 and then went back to Hills-boro for business endeavors. Mr. William Reavis had a 260 farm in precinct #2 (Hill Co) and other real estate in Hillsboro plus was a stockholder in Hillsboro Mills.
In 1867 he married Miss Dora Cato, daughter of L.W. Cato, a native of Mississippi who came to Hill county in 1850 and was County Judge before the War. William and Dora had 5 children,Harry, Rex, Ada and Kate. William was an Elder in the old-school Presbyterian church, member of the Masonic Order and secretary of the Lodge for a number of years and is entirely a self-made and self-sustaining man.
Andrea's Hx of Nebraska 1882-Richardson Co pt.2
Daniel Reavis chosen as one of Directors of Nebraska Valley, Lincoln & Loop Fork Railway-February 27, 186?
Secretary: Isham Reavis, Atty. (was never built)
