While researching ancestors in Wayne County, Tennessee, I ran across yet another George Reeves. He was grantor in an 1833 deed conveying land on Hardin’s Creek in Wayne County to James F Carr of Wayne County. The deed refers to him as “George Reeves of Hickman County, Kentucky.” He was present in Wayne County in the 1830 Federal Census with a wife, four sons, and three daughters, and next appears in the 1840 Federal census in Hickman County, Kentucky with five sons, five daughters, and no wife. He was in Ballard County, Kentucky in 1850 and died there in 1857. This George Reeves married Nancy Elizabeth McClure in 1817, probably in Tennessee; Nancy had died by 1840.According to the 1850 census, George was born in Kentucky in 1793. Some researchers, for reasons unknown to me, believe he was born in South Carolina. Although I have no information about his origins, it is possible that he is connected to the Thomas Reeves who was a significant landowner in Wayne County before 1820; James Reeves, who settled on Green River in Wayne County by 1816; or John Reeves, a first preacher at the Primitive Baptist Church which was founded in 1820.
It seems likely that George, Thomas, James, and John are somehow connected, but I have found nothing to connect them at this time other than proximity which is a poor indicator of kinship.
DNA testing of descendants of this George Reeves would greatly help in determining his origins.
I commented before on your interesting website regarding some autosomal DNA connections I have to Reeves descendants. I am a descendant of James F. Carr's sister, Mary (Carr), wife of Asa Wayman, who went to Illinois around 1825, after marrying in Maury County in 1820. I have found two matches on chromosome 1 at about 180 to 201 million where the common ancestors are James and Rachel Reeves (d. 1830 Wayne County). I also share this same segment (181-198 million) where the descendant's line goes to Richard Burton (d. 1799 Guilford Co., NC). I think this means that James Reeves and James F. Carr were cousins. James F. Carr was probably the son of William Carr (d. 1813), who probably was the son of James Carr (d. 1820 Maury Co.) by a first wife, possibly Reeves. I haven't been able to trace the Carrs' movements, but they probably were in Georgia before showing up in Maury County around 1810. Before that, South Carolina is possible, and then earlier North Carolina. But it's a difficult one!
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