Moore/Reeves

[Hana]

Don't know that this line has any Native-American ancestry, but writing it up just in case (as I'm stuck on my more likely lines.:( ) I have two Moore lines.

First is Moore/Reeves:

Lucinda Jane Moore (born June 24, 1838, MS), daughter of Alethea Reeves (born 1803, TN) and Henry Moore (1799, NC). (Lucinda married into my more NDN-likely Gregory line)

Alethia is daughter of Mauldin Reeves and Nancy Stevenson

Maulden is reportedly son of Burgess Reeves (born 1746)

[Bill Childs]

Have you looked into "RIVES" and "REVES"?

[BDEGNEN]

Is there a connection to Reaves? In my family the Reaves line, out of North Carolina by way of Tennessee, has Indian ancestry.

[Hana]

My impression is that the Reeves/Rives/reves/Reaves family wasn't very consistent about spelling, and that Rives may be the original. I hadn't looked into this line much. Mostly because the male line had been traced back to England, and because with a fairly well-known character, Burgess Reeves, on the line, I figured it had been pretty carefully pored over by other researchers who would have found whatever there was to find.

As it turns out, even Burgess Reeves' mother appears to be still unknown (he was orphaned), despite lots of looking by others, and I've begun to lose my faith in longtime researchers always being so thorough, from an experience with at least one family member who never even considered NDNs or FPCs when forbears couldn't be found. (Guess it's more typical for people into genealogy to be looking for General Custer than for Sitting Bull. Especially if they are trying to say, get into the DAR. Or is my 'reverse prejudice' showing here?)

[Bill Childs]

You seemed pretty matter-of-fact to me.
Bill

[Hana]

Found something that made me say, 'hmmm' about my g-grandfather, James L. Moore. As I probably wrote someplace else here, I'd been surprised to hear that the ornery, prejudiced old cuss had been the only one in his small Texas town to hire a black man for a good job as butcher in his shop. I also met a relative whom I think was his brother, who, admittedly based only on his looks, had me wondering if despite the loudmouthed racial slurs, they weren't of partially African-american ancestry themselves.

Then I traced the family back via the census, and found that, (assuming I have the right James L.), in the 1880's the family lived in an area that was predominantly black or mixed ancestry.

hmmm....

[lynellarainhawk]

Hana,

Glad you're back.:) I too, was wondering if your Reeves could have been with the Reaves. I'll be interested to see. Love & Light, Lynella.