Reaves family papers, 1834-1942,1996.

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Reaves family papers, 1834-1942,1996.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37799451

This collection documents the careers and faces of members of the Reaves family of Middleton and Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn., 1834-1942. The papers include the will of John Reaves (d.1835); several Civil War and Reconstruction-era papers of Edmund Reaves documenting his claims against the U.S. Army in the war and claiming that he had never supported the Confederacy; and many financial papers, some correspondence, legal materials, Masonic documents and other papers of John Rufus Reaves. There are clippings taken from John R. Reaves's paper, "The Hardeman Free Press" of Bolivar, Tenn., and a copy of C. W. Tyler's "The K.K.K.," a book passed down from John R. to Edmund H. Reaves. The collection also includes 60 pictures of virtually every member of the Reaves family, including Edmund H. Reaves's siblings, Stella-Dora (Teddie) Reaves Kearney and Ina Emma Campbell Reaves Stroupe; his wife, Emily Mae Moore; and his daughter, Margaret Elizabeth Reaves McGregor Coleman; some of their friends; and the John Rufus Reaves House. Many of the images are cased ambrotypes and daguerrotypes, but tintypes and albumen prints are also represented among the 19th-century prints. There are a number of 20th-century photographs as well, mainly of Edmund H. Reaves and of a John Rufus Reaves family reunion held in 1930.

About 500 items (1.0 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7396817

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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The Reaves family were prosperous planters and businessmen originally from Wayne County, N.C., who lived from around 1837 in Hardeman County, Tenn. Edmund Reaves moved to Tennessee with many of his neighbors from North Carolina. He had a plantation with land valued at $29,000 and 42 slaves in 1860, and he ran a small store in Middleton, Tenn. His son, John Rufus Reaves, also ran a store; founded and edited a newspaper, "The Hardeman Free Press"; served in several civic offices including the Tenn...

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Kearney, Stella-Dora Reaves, 1877-1955.

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Stroupe, Ina Emma Campbell Reaves, 1871-1937.

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