Barry/Tommie - I am VERY glad to know that you have such great results on the DNA tests. Unfortunately, I know NO Reeves male in my particular line to take the test. However. I have gone over my notes [AGAIN] and This from cousin , Lynn Laster , "A Reeves family researcher and descendant of the Hickman County Reeves, Edward Pace, has conducted an excellent analysis on the ancestry of the first Reeves families to settle in Hickman County. " { L - they were in TN c 1815 / 1817 until c 1858/9 when they moved to KY} my JOHN would be a brother to your William, sons of WILLIAM Reeves. 1. WILLIAM was born about 1690 prob VA and died in 1751 in Granville Co, N C, 2. .JOHN [ # I or Sr] was the son of WILLIAM Reeves from Granville Co, N C and was born about 1716 in Granville Co. and died after 1790 in Granville Co. N C married Sarah Thompson. 3. JOHN [ # II or Jr] was born about 1752 in Granville Co. and died prior to 1820, probably in South Carolina. Married a SARAH [unk] 4. REUBEN, Sr b 1787-89 NC d after the 1860 Graves Co KY census - probably died in Graves Co KY. married a NANCY [unk] 5, REUBEN, Jr b c 1822, prob Hickman Co, TN d before 15 Feb 1864 MO, married LAVINIA /LAVINA/VINA FOSTER [ FORRESTER] Not sure of LAVINIA's last name and on each of the 3 census records her 1st name was spelled differently l Laverne Raisch On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 21:34:58 -0600 "Barry Reeves" <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Everyone, > > > > I have some very exciting news to report on our Reeves DNA project. > We have > our second exact 25/25 match. This time it is real personal, > because one of > the matching results is mine. I received the news last Sunday night > that I > had a 12/12 match with Stephen Reeves # 28839. Stephen is the > nephew of our > REEVES-L list member Tommie Smith. Then just this evening the > results of > the remaining markers were received and we are an exact 25/25 match. > This > means that we have about a 94% chance of a common ancestor within > the last > 300 years. > > > > My research has indicated that I descend from William Reeves, Sr > (1723 NC - > 1821 SC) through his son Willis Reeves. Willis was the last son of > William's marriage to his wife Elizabeth Lawson. There have been > indications that after Elizabeth Lawson Reeves died, William > remarried a > woman named Elizabeth Thompson and a son named Thompson Reeves > resulted from > this second marriage. I have corresponded with Tommie Smith for > quite a > while. She has always suspected that her Great Great Grandfather > Thompson > Reeves (b. 1799) was this same son from the second marriage of > William > Reeves, Sr., but had found it difficult to prove. > > > > Although much more work will be required and nothing is certain yet, > I think > we finally have the scientific evidence to support this connection. > I can't > tell you how exciting this is to me. I'll have to admit that I had > my > doubts in the beginning that I would ever see any positive results > from the > DNA testing, but I am totally convinced that this is the most > important > research tool that is available today. I can only hope that each of > you > will see similar results of your own in the very near future. > Please join > us in this extremely valuable project. > > > > Please take a look at the latest results. > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~reevesdna/ > > > > Best Regards, > > Barry Reeves > > > > ==== REEVES Mailing List ==== > To POST: email <[email protected]> In the subject line please > state the person, where the person lived. Like Joel Avery Reeves, d > ca 1846 in Jasper Co., GA. > > >