Ruben Arbin Posey (1854 - 1932)

Born 28 Apr 1854 in Franklin, Mississippi, United States

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Died 25 Sep 1932 at age 78 in Catahoula, Louisiana, United States

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Biography

Please note that Ruben is spelled Reuben in the obituary. Died at home of daughter, Mrs. Webb Tarver. Burial: Pine Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Sicily Island, Louisiana.

Note: From Edna Mae Posey, granddaughter: Reuben was eight years old when the Civil War broke out. He could hear the cannons firing to the north around Vicksburg and to the south toward Baton Rouge. The Yankees came there and ate up all the corn and killed six of their hogs.

Reuben and Abi came with their family to Sicily Island in the fall of 1916. Cotton farming was Reuben's occupation and that is what brought him to Sicily Island.

Residence Year: 1860; Census Place: Franklin, Mississippi; Roll: M653_581; Page: 298; Family History Library Film: 803581. ^[1] Year: 1870; Census Place: Township 7, Lincoln, Mississippi; Roll: M593_737; Page: 64A. ^[2] Year: 1880; Census Place: Beat 5, Lincoln, Mississippi; Roll: 655; Page: 146A; Enumeration District: 036. ^[3] Year: 1900; Census Place: Vaughn, Lincoln, Mississippi; Roll: 817; Page: 16; Enumeration District: 0103; FHL microfilm: 1240817. ^[4] Year: 1910; Census Place: Beat 1, Lincoln, Mississippi; Roll: T624_749; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 0082; FHL microfilm: 1374762. ^[5] Year: 1920; Census Place: Police Jury Ward 2, Catahoula, Louisiana; Roll: T625_609; Page: 23A; Enumeration District: 9. ^[6] Year: 1930; Census Place: Police Jury Ward 2, Catahoula, Louisiana; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 0003; FHL microfilm: 2340518. ^[7]

Death Died on 25 Sep 1932 in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. ^[8]

Burial Old Pine Hill Cemetery, Sicily Island, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
2. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
3. ↑ Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site. Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
4. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.
5. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA.
6. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City).
7. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.
8. ↑ Ancestry.com. Louisiana, U.S., Statewide Death Index, 1819-1964 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2002.
9. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103772901/reuben-posey: accessed 26 August 2022), memorial page for Reuben Posey (1854–25 Sep 1932), Find a Grave Memorial ID 103772901, citing Old Pine Hill Cemetery, Sicily Island, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, USA; Maintained by Deborah Edmonds Borquist (contributor 47343878).

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLR-CDKK : 13 December 2015), Reuben Posey, 1932; Burial, Sicily Island, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, United States of America, Old Pine Hill Cemetery; citing record ID 103772901, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

• Source: S-382300071 Repository: #R-945818744 Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=77568886&pid=209

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• Ancestry.com; https://rootsfromthebayou.blogspot.com/2012/12/sicily-island-descendants-of-reuben.html