Hi Paul, Henry County was called "the mother of counties."   Most of the  following information comes from "Henry County Georgia, The Mother of Counties", by B essie Thrasher Rainer, and private ly printed by Dr. Robert A. Ranier in 1971 and1989. In December 14, 1821, the fourth, fifth, thirteenth, fourteenth and seventeenth districts of Henry County were detached from Henry and added to Fayette. In 1851-2,  a part of Henry was added to Spalding and in 1858, Clayton Co. was formed from Henry County.  The resident's home would have remained in the same locstion , but the boundaries of the county they lived in might b e different.  The following are j ust a few examples of Reeves surname  in Henry County (and there were some in Clayton County and Spalding.) In January 1828, a Tyre Reeves was one of 12 Justices of the Peace commisioned in Henry County; in October 1833, there was a Wm. Reeves, (Cited as William Reeves in the index)  J. Reeves and Lawson Reeves  (page 57-58) on a list of voters at the house of John Lovejoy on  in the 12th district of Henry County, voting for the Governor of the State and members of the General Assembly. There was a Reeves Creek: In 1864, t he right wing of Sherman's Army (15th and 17th c orps) camped near Stockbridge on its march to the Sea. Woods and Hazens  Divisions of the 15th corps marched toward Jonesboro then toward McDonough at Morrow Station, halted south of the Jonesboro Road (State 138) and camped on Reeves Creek west of town. When I lived in Clayton County many years ago, two older  Reeves brothers and their tenant farmers lived on a large farm on Mt. Zion Road, next to ours. Anyway, you might want to check in other counties around.  I found my ggrandmother in Spalding when she had been living in Fayettville in an earlier census. Many of these graves had no tombstones after the War and many had none at all.  With the 159 counties of Georgia, you often have to think outside the box.  Take care and good luck, J. M. Fuller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert E. Johnston" <bobsedge@sbcglobal.net> To: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com, gafayett@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 2:06:00 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [GAFAYETT] Reeves Family Hi Paul, I did not find them listed in the Fayette County cemetery book. But, there are seven articles about the Reeves family in the Fayette County heritage book, including William Reeves, 1794-1850. If you have not seen these I will be glad to copy the pages and mail them to you. Regards, Robert E. Johnston At 08:51 PM 11/9/2009, you wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Author: PaulReeves94 >Surnames: >Classification: queries > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.georgia.counties.fayette/1454.1/mb.ashx > >Message Board Post: > >I am trying to locate the gravesites of the following ancestors who >lived and/or died in Fayette county: > >William Reeves 1794-1850 >Wife: Camilla Reeves 1800-1833 > >Wiley Reeves 1769-after 1850 (may be buried in Spalding) >Wife: Rebecca Reeves 1770-??? > >Amos Reeves 1845-1863 (died in war and was shipped to Fayette for burial) > >I have searched online and in some other records available to me >with no success. If you run across any of these folks in the >resources available to you, I would greatly appreciate hearing from >you and knowing their burial locaiion. > >Many thanks for your kind offer of help, > >Paul Reeves   ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GAFAYETT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message