Just found this, and changed some of my data: "Jas. M. Reavis, Sr. member of J.M. Reavis & Son, tin, stove, glass and queensware merchants, was born July 31, 1834, in Rutherford Co NC and is of a family of four sons and two daughters, born to Thos. C. and Alice (Laws) Reavis, natives of Granville and Orange Counties, NC, father and mother respectively. They were married in Orange County, and followed farming until they moved to this county in 1834; then followed shoe-making a few years, after which he began the practice of denistry about 1840, continuing the same in Jackson until his death in 1858, the mother following in 1871. He was city marshal of Jackson a number of years prior to his death. Our subject remained at home til 1856, when he went to New Orleans and there completed the tinner's trade, returning in 1860. He followed his trade until the beginn- ing of hostilities between the North and South. He then enlisted, and was assigned to the engineeer corps, under Forrest, remained in ser- vice until the close of the war, and in Mary 1866, embarked in his pre- sent line in Jackson. In February, 1862 he married Margaret A. Brown, a native of Kentucky to whom three sons and one daughter have been born, Frank. Alice, Hartwell and James c. Hartwell, deceased. He is a member of IOOF and his wife member of First Methodist Church" *Barb