Grayson County TXGenWeb

William Cheek Reeves
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Anna L. Worden

William Cheek Reeves was born July 26 1844, Clinton Co., KY and died August 10 1930, Merkel, Taylor Co., Texas.

Anna L. Worden, daughter of Joab (J. A.; "Joe") Worden and Gatsie Caroline Trout, was born October 26, 1856 in Grayson County, Texas. Annie l. Reeves died August 6, 1888 and is buried in Old Pilot Grove Cemetery.

Anna married William Cheek Reeves in Grayson County, Texas on December 24, 1876. William Reeves and Anna Worden were the parents of five children: Nora Leon, Hiram Verner, Joseph Luther, George Elbert, Annie Ethel.

According to the 1880 census, William and Annie were living in Collin County, Texas and she had two children, ages 2 years and 1 year, a boy and a girl.

After Annie's death, William Reeves remarried on August 13, 1891 to Sarah Elizabeth Pierce in Grayson County, Texas. They resided in Tom Bean, Grayson County, Texas. Sarah Elizabeth Pierce, his second wife, was born November 8, 1862 in Kentucky. She died on December 7, 1936 at the Methodist Hospital, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas and was buried December 8, 1936.

Sarah was the mother of five children; three surviving - Blannie, William, Icey. William had four children. In 1910, the Reeves were living in Whitewright and there were two more children. Two boys were born in 1895 and 1900 and died on the same day of their birth.

The 1910 census give the children's names: Blannie M., Caldwell, Icey, Ruie S, and Floy E. Foy and Icey were living in Dallas, Texas in 1930. Foy was a Relief Clerk at the Telephone Company. She died in 1984. Apparently Blannie May and Icey Ann never married. Both are buried in the New Pilot Grove Cemetery.

William Caldwell "Cull" married Mary Higginbotham who was born about 1895 in Texas. They had a son, Wallace. "Cull" Caldwell and Mary Higginbotham Caldwell are buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Fannin County,Texas. Mary's parents were Crofford L. and Martha A. HIgginbotham; both are buried in West Hill Cemetery, Sherman, Texas.
According to “Cull's” death certificate, he had remarried to a "Bessie". Uncle William L. Higginbotham, Dr., brother to Crofford L. Higginbotham, was the informant for his death. Uncle William is also buried in West Hill.