Question about Matthew Reeves and Drusie (Pridgett) Reeves, Pike County, Alabama

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Matthew Reeves was a brother of my grandfather, Walter Reeves.  Matthew was born in 1889 and per Family Search died 28 April 1915.  Family lore says that he died of TB.  Matthew is buried in Old Canaan Cemetery, Pike County, Alabama.  He was the son of William Henry and  Nancy Ann (Meredith) Reeves, who are also buried at Old Canaan Cemetery.

On 18 September 1913, Matthew married Drusie Pridgett, in Pike County, Alabama.  Their marriage license gives his age as 24, hers as 18.  Family Search shows/verifies that they had an unnamed infant daughter, born 11 April 1915.

Family tradition says that either just before or just after Matthew died, Drusie's parents (names unknown to me) came and got her.  ;I don't know where they went, have never been able to find out.  My grandfather made attempts to try to find Drusie to offer to raise her baby, but was unsuccessful.

I would appreciate any information on Drusie's later life, when/where she died as well as information on her baby girl.  I feel it's possible she may have remarried and raised her daughter with Matthew under her new married name.
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Here is Drucilla with her parents and siblings in the 1900 U.S. Census; looks like she was only 15 when she married, not 18, although other records show her birth date as 1895, and 1897.

 Drucilla Pridgett
Age:2
Birth Date:Aug 1898
Birthplace:Alabama
Home in 1900:Gilley, Dale, Alabama
Relation to Head of House:Daughter
Marital status:Single
Father's name:David C Pridgett
Father's Birthplace:Alabama
Mother's name:Nancy Pridgett
Mother's Birthplace:Alabama

Household Members:
Name                Age
David C Pridgett    24
Nancy Pridgett      20
Drucilla Pridgett    2
James Pridgett    8/12

David Pridgett died in 1910, Nancy in 1919.  After Matthew died Drusie married a man named John Weeks.  They are together in the 1920 census, but with no children.  By 1930 John was dead and Drusie was living with her brother and his wife and children.  If Drusie and Matthew had a child, he or she appears in no census records.  

Drusilla Weeks
Birth Year:abt 1898
Gender:Female
Race:White
Birthplace:Alabama
Marital status:Widowed
Relation to Head of House:Sister-in-law  [actually his sister]
Home in 1930:Troy, Pike, Alabama, USA
Age at first Marriage:15
Attended School:No
Able to Read and Write:No
Father's Birthplace:Alabama
Mother's Birthplace:Alabama
Able to Speak English:Yes
Household Members:

Name               Age
James E Pritchett  30
Ola M Pritchett    22
Lula B Pritchett    4
Bennie Pritchett    1
Drusilla Weeks     32

This may be Drucie in the Social Security Death Index:
Drucie Allen
Birth Date:2 Aug 1895
Issue year:1973
Issue State:Alabama
Last Residence:36352, Newton, Dale, Alabama, USA
Death Date:Aug 1976
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Link to 1900 census: "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M988-VSJ : accessed 16 January 2020), Drucilla Pridgett in household of David C Pridgett, Precinct 5 Gilley's, Dale, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 62, sheet 12B, family 222, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,012. 

Link to 1920 census: "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXDD-LVN : accessed 16 January 2020), Druieilla Weeks in household of John Weeks, Head, Cross Roads, Pike, Alabama, United States; citing ED 146, sheet 4B, line 68, family 66, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 38; FHL microfilm 1,820,038.

Link to 1930 census: "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:3KDK-DT2 : accessed 16 January 2020), Drusilla Weeks in household of James E Pritchett, Troy, Pike, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 7, sheet 8B, line 64, family 151, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 46; FHL microfilm 2,339,781.

Thank you so much!  I appreciate your help more than I can say.

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