My Genealogy Hound

William C. Reeves, a well known farmer of Fayette County, was born in Winchester, Franklin Co., Tenn., November 15, 1815, being the son of Abner and Elizabeth (Russey) Reeves. It was thought that the father was born about 1780, in North Carolina or Virginia. He died in Winchester, Tenn., in 1821. The mother was born in North Carolina, March 20, 1788, and died in Somerville, Tenn., April 23, 1873. The father was a blacksmith and very successful. The mother remained in Franklin County several years after his death. In 1832 she moved, with our subject and her brother, to Fayette County, where she resided until her death. Our subject was the second of four children. He received a good education, chiefly at Winchester. At sixteen he moved to West Tennessee, and after spending a year in Hardeman County moved to Fayette County, but in 1837 he purchased a farm in Hardeman County, and after living there two years moved again to Fayette County, which he has since made his home, being one of the most substantial citizens of the county, and owning over 400 acres of valuable land. Mr. Reeves has had the unusual misfortune of losing six wives. He was first married to Miss Sallie Farris, April 18, 1835. She died March 20, 1837; second, to Miss Lucy Farris, a sister of his first wife, December 19, 1839—she died June 26, 1852; third, to Miss Mary McCarley, December 25, 1852—she died October 14, 1857; fourth, to Miss Mary A. Reeves, May 6, 1858—she died January 28, 1860; fifth, to Mrs. Elizabeth (Walsh) Holt, November 12, 1861—she died February 6, 1874; and sixth, to Mrs. Ann J. (Tyler) Tidd, who died October 13, 1884. Our subject is a Democrat and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mr. Reeves is a man of fine character and industrious habits.