This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Reeves, McComb Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4256 Message Board Post: I have known for a long time, the story of how one Reeves family while emigrating to Fremont county from Ohio had suffered the loss of the father at St. Louis, of a sister after arriving in Fremont county near Hamburg, and of the mother shortly after moving on to Sidney. (SEARCH on this site "Reeves of Fremont co., Iowa"). WELL, finally, after too many years, my brain has managed to associate what were otherwise, isolated facts. Read this: 1880 History of Page County, Iowa, page 702; Lincoln township: "WILLIAM REEVES, merchant, P.O. Coin; born in Meigs county, Ohio, December 18, 1848, and resided in the county of his birth until seven years of age. In the spring of 1855 he came with his parents to Fremont county, Iowa. Sickness, and the death of his father near St. Louis, the death of his sister near Hamburg, and that of his mother soon after their arival at their destination, cast, not only a cloud over the life of young Reeves, but filled it with those experiences peculiar to orphan children. Nothing but the strongest will and greatest energy sufficed to make Mr. Reeves a successful man. He has triumphed where others would have failed, and gained where many lose. He was married to Miss Ida McComb, July 5, 1880. Has been in the mercantile business for many years." Now, SEARCH on this site (1).-- "William Reeves, Dec. 18, 1848 - April 17, 1906" -- and -- (2).-- "Lewis Reeves" Both of these postings tell the SAME STORY! Both of these postings say that each, William and Lewis Reeves, were the sons of Noah Reeves of Meigs county, Ohio......The Lewis-Reeves-posting states that the six names of these Reeve orphans were (a) Martin, (b) Alexander, (c) Henry, (d) William, (e) Lewis and (f) Solomon. The 1860 Federal Census for Fremont county, Iowa, shows the following six young Reeves boys, all living apart from their father's family: Solomon, aged 6 years; William, aged 9 years; Lewis, aged 10 years; William (sic), aged 11 years; Henry, aged 13 years; Abner, aged 16 years. These postings say that William Reeves married Ida Belle McComb at Manti, Iowa. These McCombs of Manti -- as I remember -- were the ones who moved to Shenandoah, where McCombs Park still exists, thanks to the McComb family. Does anyone have the 1850 Federal Census Record for Noah Reeves of Meigs county, Ohio? One would hope that at long last the Noah Reeves' family could again be back together!