Cynthia Ellen REEVES, b. 2/6/1820 (TN? NC?) d. 8/19/1891 Howell Mountain, Napa Co., CA. Her brother was Jack Reeves, who stayed in Claiborne Co., TN when Cynthia moved north with husband's family. She married Reuben Rogers HAMPTON, son of Elisha Hampton & Lydia Merritt, February 4, 1842 in Powell Valley, Claiborne Co., TN. He was born April 18, 1822 in Powell Valley, Campbell /Claiborne Co., TN. Died August 14, 1891 in Pope Valley, Napa Co., CA. In the 1860 Census for Overton Co., TN, we find the Reuben Rogers Hampton family living there. Overton Co. lies three counties west of Campbell Co. where he was born and raised. Why did he move there? With the number of Reeves showing up in the same county, one might suspect that Reuben had moved to be near his wife¹s family, or that he and they had moved together westward. Sometime after the census was taken in 1860 and by early 1861 he had moved his family to Danville, IN, where his son, John D. Hampton, enlisted in the Union Army. The reason he chose Danville, was that his uncle William MERRITT had lived there since 1822. Reuben¹s mother¹s parents lived there a few years and were buried there. After the war they moved to Page Co., Iowa, where his sisters Sarah Hampton INGRAM and Amy Hampton WALKER had moved in 1857 with their husbands. The following Reeves were in Overton Co.TN in 1860: p.174 Reeves, H.P. 33 p. 120 Reeves, David 42 p. 643 Reeves, Robert 38 Reeves, Susana 38 p. 787 Reeves, James - Reeves, Salina 26 Has anyone been researching the above REEVES families? Do they know how Cynthia Ellen and Jack fit into these or other families? ------------------------------