Robert Hodge Reaves (1813 - 1875)

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Died 25 Aug 1875 at age 62 in Marion County, South Carolina, USA

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Robert was born in 1813. Robert Reaves ... He passed away in 1875.

"...Robert H. Reaves, was for many years a prominent merchant at Marion; he married a daughter of old Colonel W. H. Grice, who still survives, and lives upon and owns her patrimonial estate in Wahee Township. R. H. Reaves, the last years of his life, retired from mercantile pursuits, and went on his farm in Wahee, where he accidentally fell from his piazza some years ago and broke his neck; he raised a family of four sons and perhaps two daughters; of the sons, two, Henry and Thomas, died young men, unmarried; Augustus and James still survive; the former unmarried, lives with his mother; the latter married, and lives in Sumter County; has a family, and is said to be doing well. Of the daughters. Miss Sallie, the oldest, has never married, and lives with her mother. The younger one, name not remembered, married a Mr. Lide, in Darlington. R. H. Reaves was a good and successful merchant for many years, but in the wind-up of his mercantile affairs, did not seem to have made much, but saved his plantation and negroes; he was a man of equable temperament, and never seemed to be in a hurry; he represented the district in the Legislature just after the war in 1866 —before Reconstruction commenced or before it got under way." (A History of Marion County, South Carolina, From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1902 by W. W. Sellers)

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• See also: https://thereevesproject.org/data/tiki-index.php?page=Reaves_Robert_Hodge_3518

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