This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Reaves/Reeves Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QU.2ADI/3891.2.1 Message Board Post: I have found some info since I posted that, but couldn't he be counted twice in the census if he moved. I just looked again, and heritagequest has 1870 Pike County census Evallem (when you look it is Eralbun Reaves and wife Mary J.) Reaves, with child Irvin and with Frances age 16 is in the household, Frances being Fanny Hand. I have found that my Wiley is the son of James Marion Reeves, but is Eralbun not connected to this family, somehow? Maybe I am wrong about the years, but I know in 1880 he lives beside Orion in clay. In 1870, this person lives beside a Brooks family and is Evellem Reaves. I am just trying to figure out my children's Reeves family. And the proximity to the Wiley in Alabama and Arkansas made me wonder