ANY RELATION TO THOMAS REESE SCRANTON PA HE LIVED WITH MY GRANDMOTHER SUSAN STOTT REESE UNTIL HIS DEATH I KNOW HE HAD A LOT OF CHILDREN FROM HIS PREVIOUS MARRIAGE. hE HAD NO CHILDREN WITH MY GRANDMOTHER BUT WAS A GREAT MAN AND HIGHLY SPOKEN OF AND RECALLED BY HIS STEP CHILDREN. THEY RESPECTED HIM M ORE THAN THERE OWN FATHER NAMED STOTT WHO DISAPPEARED AND WAS NEVER SEEN AGAIN. I BELIEVE THERE ARE A GREAT MANY REESES OUT THERE WHO DONT EVEN KNOW OUR FAMILY AND EVVEN THOUGH WE ARE ALL NOT BLOOD WE SHOULD ACTUALLY GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER AS THOMAS REESE RAISED ALL MY GRANDMOTHERS CHILDREN INCLUDING MY MOM MARION STOTT HAYES. ALSO IF ANYONE HAS ANT INFORMATION ABOUT SIMPSON FIRST NAME CHRISTOPHER HE LIVED AT LAKE WINOLA PA ON POINT ROAD HE DIED SOMETIME IN THE 70'S OF CARBON MONOXIDE POISOINING IN HIS CAR WITH A GIRL HE JUST RECENTLY MARRIED. HE WORKED AT ALLIED RESOURSES ON THE MORGAN HIGHWAY AND I CANT SEEM TO GET ANY INFORMATION FROM THE NEWSPAPERS IN SCRANTON EVEN THOUGH I KNOW ALOT OF ARTICLES IN RE TO EVENT WERE PUBLISHED. ANY INFO WOULD HELP. tHANKS BARBARA HAYES

No relation that I am aware of. Being a keeper of Rees(e) information, it's hard to determine whether Thomas, William, or John is the most common christian name. There are sure a lot of them <g>! Thomas L. Rees married Susie Bannon, daughter of Isabella Wilson and James Bannon, English immigrants, on June 29, 1936. William E. Jones, the Justice of the Peace at West Pittston performed the ceremony according to the license, 644C, recorded in vol. 99 at Luzerne Co. Her birth place appears to be Albarna, but it is not fully legible, so I suspect it might be Alabama. The indication was that her previous husband was deceased in Nov. 1928. Thomas was the son of Frances A. Lyons and Benjamin F. Rees from the Blakely area and had a brother Bert D. Reese. Thomas's first wife was was Sarah Rolls, who died in Dec. 3, 1918. I list a dozen children from their marriage, and have 4 generations including his parents. BTW, a grandson, was Rev. James Reese, of the Walzer Bible Church; and the last I knew was in Gibson, PA, in Dec. 1998. Rev. Reese was the minister who performed the marriage ceremony of my cousin Carl and his wife Valeri. If you'd like to have their genealogy (as much as I've pieced together) just ask. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 1:44 AM Subject: Re: [PA-LAC] OBITUARY for MARY ANN THOMAS > Any relation to Thomas Reese, Scranton, PA. He lived with my grandmother Susan > Stott Reese until his death. I Know he had a lot of children from his previous > marriage. He had no children with my Grandmother but was a great man and > highly spoken ofl, and recalled by his step children. They respected him more > than their own father named Stott, who disappeared and was never seen again. > > I believe there are a great many Reese's out there who don't even know our > family and even though we are all not blood, we should actually get to know each > other as Thomas Reese raised all my grandmother's children including my Mom, > Marion Stott Hayes. <snip> > Thanks > Barbara Hayes