Margaret Goad Reeves

From
A Brief History of Alexander Goad
An Early Settler of Madison County Arkansas
By Douglas Wilson - presented with permission

Margaret Goad was born on 20 September 1834 and was the first of Alexander and Jane's children born in Arkansas.

Margaret married James D. Reeves about 1850 in Madison County.

James was a brother of Robert Reeves.  Two Reeves brothers married

two Goad sisters.  The two families lived near each other until sometime after 1880.  After spending nearly all their lives in Madison County, it seems that some of the children moved to Eastland County, Texas.  Soon the whole family moved to Texas.

James and Margaret had eleven children.

1. Drurie Alexander Reeves was born in 1851 in Madison County. His wife was Miss Mary __________ and they lived at Eastland, Texas.  Drurie Alexander died on 8 April 1926.
2. Mary A. Reeves was born on 6 February 1852 in Madison County. About 1872 she was married to James E. Goad (a grandson of Robert P. Goad, see other parts of this booklet for details).  They lived near Greenwood, Arkansas in 1880.  After this they moved to Brownwood, Texas.  They had these children.
1. Manda E. Goad was born about 1873 in Arkansas.
2. Delia E. Goad was born about 1874 in Arkansas.
3. Rosa Goad was born about 1877 in Arkansas.
4. Robert N. Goad was born about 1879 in Texas.

Mrs. Worland thinks that James and Mary Goad moved to Texas about 1878.  That James' father Ephriam became ill and they had to come back to Arkansas for a year or so.  James' father probably died and after the estate business was settled, they moved back to Texas.  A will or probate record could prove this.

3. Tennessee Reeves was born on 11 August 1855 in Madison County. She was married to John W. Robinson and they lived at Eastland, Texas.  Tennessee died on 19 November 1934.
4. Orlena E. Reeves was born in Madison County Ln 1857.  She was married to Jim Casey.
5. Arizona Reeves was born in Madison County about 1861.
6. James W. (Jimmie) Reeves was born on 3 July 1863 in Madison County.  He married Josephine LedbeLter on 28 September 1884 and they lived in Eastland County, Texas.  Jimmie Reeves died on 24 January 1958.
7. Margaret Alice Reeves was born in Madison County on 18 August 1866.  She married Joe D. Parsons and they lived in Eastland County, Texas.  Margaret Alice died on 11 December 1947.
8. George Reeves was born in Madison County, Arkansas in 1868.
9. Joseph Reeves was born in Madison County 1871.  He was married to Miss Minnie ______________ and they lived in Eastland County, Texas.  Joseph died in 1937.
10. Madison (Matt) Reeves was born about 1874 in Madison County. He lived at Rosco, Texas.
11. Luther Reeves was born about 1876 in Madison County.

Information on this family was from: Ruth Goad Trousdale, Carlsbad, New Mexico.

"We knew this family of Reeves as we lived in Eastland County from 1919 to 1926 during the oil deals.

The Eastland Cemetary is half full of descendants of Alex Goad. Some in Cisco and some in small cemetaries, old ones, in several places in Eastland County.

I don't have dates on Jimmie, Sr. as there was no tombstone at his gYrave but think it is 1921 or 1922.

I was real small when he died and I remember he was real old, I thought 95.

George worked for the railroad and lived at Ardmore, I think. Most of their children and grandchildren are buried close by. I remember them and some of their family, especially the Robinson family.  There is still one of Tennessee's daughters living -age 95 now.

I was in Eastland this summer and went to two old cemetaries.  One had graves in 1880 but found no Goads.  A lot of unmarked graves there and one cemetary was in real bad shape.  Most all of the Reeves were married before coming to Texas about 1875 (after 1880)."

- the above information from Ruth Trousdale.

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