This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Reeves, Irwin, Hicks Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4256.2 Message Board Post: Using pre-suppositional reasoning to put two-and-two together: 1.-- "Solomon Reeves, aged 2 years, born in Ohio, and resident of Iowa one year": He is shown in the household of John and Mariah Irwin in the 1856 census of Fremont county. 2. -- George T. Reeves married Anna Jane Irwin on August 25, 1859 in Fremont county. 3. -- 1870 Federal Census of Sidney twp., Fremont co., Iowa: ......Anna J. Reeves.....23.....born Ohio....School teacher... ......Solomon Reeves....17....born Ohio (He can't Anna's son or brother!) ......Theodore Reeves....10....born Iowa ......Ellen Reeves...........7.....born Iowa 4-- Anny Reeves married Silas H. Hicks on Nov. 3, 1870 in Fremont county. 5. -- 1880 Federal Census, Penn township, Jefferson county, Iowa; 76 - 16: ......Silas Hicks...............35 ......Annie.......................36 ......Theodore Reeves.......19........step-son ......Ella Reeves...............15.......step-daughter ......Robert S. Hicks..........6........son ......Arthur W. Hicks..........4........son ......Angel Theresa Hicks...4......daughter ......Eva E. Hicks..............1/2....daughter 6. --Births in Jefferson County, Iowa: ....(1) Lester S. Hicks, eighth child of Silas H. Hicks and Anna J. Irwin, b. July 7, 1881. ....(2) Bessie C., ninth child of Silas H.Hicks and Anna J. Irwin, b. Dec. 26, 1882 CONCLUSIONS: (1).--This Solomon Reeves is the brother spoken of, in Lewis Reeves' obituary, orphaned while emigrating to Fremont county from Meigs county, Ohio, in 1855. (2). Here we have a George T. Reeves who might have died during the Civil War years.--W.F.