Henry Reese and Mary Jane McKane

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Husband Henry Reese

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           Born: 15 Apr 1777 - Virginia
     Christened: 
           Died: 11 Aug 1856 1
         Buried:  - Light-Springer Cem., near New Richmond, Clermont Co., Ohio

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         Father: Thomas Reese (1729-      )
         Mother: Nancy Helen Stembridge (      -Abt 1777)

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       Marriage: 12 Dec 1825 - Hamilton Co., Ohio 2

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   Other Spouse: Ann Archer (      -Bef 1825) - Abt 1800 - Dinwiddie Co., Virginia

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Wife Mary Jane McKane

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           Born: 
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           Died: Bef 1850 - (Ohio)
         Buried: 

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Children

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1 M Thomas M. Reese

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           Born: 15 Oct 1835 - Ohio
     Christened: 
           Died: 29 Apr 1919 - Tacoma, Pierce Co. Washington 3
         Buried:  - Tacoma, Pierce Co. Washington

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2 F Margaret A. Reese

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           Born: 
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         Spouse: Wesley Nesbit (      -      )
           Marr: 21 Nov 1850 - Clermont Co., Ohio

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General Notes: Husband - Henry Reese

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CENSUS:

<pre>1850 Clermont Co., Ohio, Ohio Township, Dist. No. 22; Oct 24
2448/2457
Henry Reece 74 Va $--- Painter
Elizabeth Swinney 36 Oh
John Reece 22 Oh Brick Layer </pre>

SECOND WIFE:

The death record of Thomas M. Reese (1835-1919) in "Washington, U.S., Select Death Index, 1907-1960" at ancestry.com identifies his mother as Mary McKane. The name in the marriage record is Mary Jane McCane. McKane, McKean, and McKeen are in the 1820 and 1830 censuses in Hamilton Co. Autosomal DNA matches suggest 'McKean'.

FAMILY HISTORY:

Dr. Henry L. Reese (1872-1967) was a grandson of Henry Reese of Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. The following is the first page of a typescript sent by Dr. Reese in the last years of his life to a first cousin once removed. The first two lines are believed to have been copied from something written by Dr. Reese's father Thomas M. Reese (1835-1919). The part between the quotation marks and 'Aquilla Backerson in Tenn.' was probably copied by Thomas M. Reese from something written by his father Henry Reese. The following comment "This is all I know . . ." and then the next paragraph were written by Dr. Reese. The typescript is double spaced in a sans-serif font. Lines have been preserved. Brackets added by me. 'Grand' in the first line and 'Henry' in the third line have been overwritten with hyphens. 'Francis' was probably miscopied as 'Travis'.

Henry (1777-1856) does not name his father. That was probably just an oversight. He does name his mother. In the first line Henry says that his grandfather was Thomas Reese, and he names 3 uncles (sons of his grandfather). Later he says that his grandfather, a Capt. in the Revolution, had 4 different sons. The Capt. in the Revolution cannot be Henry's grandfather. A plausible explanation is that a word was omitted and that the Capt. in the Revolution was a brother of Henry's grandfather or a nephew. It is known that Capt. Hugh Reese, who died in 1790, had sons Isham and Jordan.


Year of 18 - 9
History of the Reeses

This is what my grand father told me. ['grand' marked out with hyphens]

His name was Henry Reese of Dinwiddie, Va.

"My grandfather's name was Thomas Reese. I had three uncles: John, Travis, Henry ['Henry' marked out with hyphens]

The [last] named was a M.E. minister & Had no children.

He died in Dinwiddie, Va.

John went to So. Carolina

I do not know anything about Travis.

My mother's maiden name was Nancy Helen Sternbridge.

My grandfather, Capt. in the Revolution had 4 sons, Ishram, Jordan, James & Joseph.

Ishram & Joseph were ME ministers.

My elder brother's names were Herod, Eaton,

My sisters were Elizabeth, Nancy, Mary, Susannah.

Elizabeth married a man named Cox in Campbell Co., Va.

Nancy married Slaughter

Mary " Calhoun

Susannah " a sea captain named Aquilla Backerson in Tenn. This is all I know

from my grandfather's writings.

Henry Reese who wrote the above was the youngest son, was born April

15, 1777. His mother died soon after his birth. He was placed with his uncle,

Henry Reese, a M.E. Minister who wanted him to become a minister, also,but they

quarreled over slavery, which the boy opposed & leaving his uncle, lost his share
(Crocker?)
of slaves. He married a young lady, Cocker, in Dinwiddie, Va., in 1800, & had

these children: Frederick, Henry, Sternbridge, Hesser Anne, Elizabeth, David,

Crocker, Nancy, Sarah, Williamson, Dorothy, Henrietta, By his second with a

McKeghan, Catherine, Anne, Margaret Anne, John, Thomas, Henry, Mary Jane.

SLAVERY:

Henry Reese had a a son named Thomas Matthew Reese. A woman named Nancy Clanfield wrote a short chapter about Thomas M. Reese in a book about the life of one of Thomas M. Reese's great-nephews. Her story about Henry and his uncle Henry follows. It is probably accurate although the personal property tax lists indicate that the part about 100 slaves is an exaggeration. Also 'John Andross' is 'John Andrews'. In the personal property tax lists of Dinwiddie Co., Virginia Henry Reese is a free white male over 16 in the household of John Andrews from 1795 until 1798. John Andrews is in the district of Braddock Goodwyn. All the Reeses in the county are in the other district. Henry has an entry of his own in the tax lists only one time -- in 1801 in the district of Braddock Goodwyn. He has no property and pays no tax. It seems likely that he left Virginia before 1804.

"Thomas Matthew Reese was the son of Henry Reese whose father, Thomas, placed his son with his brother, Henry, after young Henry's mother died. This uncle was a Methodist minister in Dinwiddie, Virginia, who had no children and would educate young Henry to be a minister and make him his heir. However, young Henry eventually quarreled with his uncle on the question of slavery, refused the 100 slaves offered him by his uncle and apprenticed himself to John Andross a wood turner and carriage maker. He stayed with Andross until his marriage to Annie Archer around 1800. In the year 1804, he emigrated to Ohio and settled in Clermont County near Milford."

1 Beach Forest Chapter D.A.R, "Monument Inscriptions Prior to 1900 from Cemeteries in Clermont Co., Ohio" (1956 Williamsburg, Ohio), Vol VIII.

2 Ohio, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Hamilton > 1825-1834. Repository: http://www.ancestry.com.

3 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 108322614.