MAURICE REID

Maurice Reid was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Reid, Stanley Bridge. He was b. 8 Nov. 1921 and came to Freetown in the late 19405. He was employed on the farms of Fred Drummond, Eldon Drummond and Albert Stetson.

In Nov. 1954 he m. Eleanor Warren, Albany, and returned to farming on the homestead in Stanley Bridge where he and his wife raised a family of ten children.

SIMON REEVES

Simon Reeves was b. and raised in Warwickshire, England. He In. Sarah Taylor, a daughter of William Taylor, in 1818. A son, John was b. in 1819 before they left England for Canada, by ship, and landed in Bedeque Bay. There are two explanations concerning the mill, one, “that William Taylor requested a helper from England to come out and help him in the mill:’ and two, “that Simon Reeves built a new mill on the Dunk River and started it himself?’ Whichever is true, the fact is that Simon was the first Reeves to settle in the Freetown area.

Land records show that Simon Reeves fell heir to 106 acres of land from his father-in-law, William Taylor, for the sum of 20 pounds. This land was continued in the Reeves name, and Simon’s great grandson, Orville, still resides on the property.

Simon was a hard working man and like Methuselah of old, begat sons and daughters and soon had a large family around him. As the years passed and the family were growing up, it goes without saying that hardships were many and comforts few. Simon was so incensed when his son John brought home a feather

bed to sleep on, that he took the bed out to the chopping block, and chopped it up with an axe, with the retort that he would make Jock’s feathers fly.

The descendants of Simon Reeves have multiplied in great numbers not only in Freetown but in other parts of the world.

Needless to say, if Mr. Reeves could come back to see his descendants, who by hard work and honesty have arrived at the stage when the feather bed has been discarded for spring filled mattresses and waterbeds and where even radios and televisions had been replaced by more modern methods of entertainment and communications, he would indeed be greatly surprised.

Simon Reeves was b. in Warwickshire, England in 1781. He m. Sarah Jane Taylor in England in 1818. She was a dau. of miller, William Taylor. The other members of the family were b. in Freetown.

Simon and Sarah Reeves are bur. in the Lower Bedeque Cemetery. Simon and Sarah (Taylor) Reeves had seven children.

+2a John b. in 1819 in England. He m. Elizabeth Lawless and had seven children.

2b Mary Ann m. Charles Baglole in Lot 16, 18 July 1860. They had five daughters all born in Lot 16: Henrietta, Louise, Della, Mildred and Margaret.

+2c William b. 1823. He m. Jane Townsend Rix (1822-1892). William d. 1897. +2d Thomas b. 1827. He m. Sarah J. Strang (1828-1892). Thomas d. 1911. 2e Elizabeth m. James Jardine. (See Jardine history.) +2f David b. 1829. He m. Margaret McCallum Cole. He d. 17 Oct. 1912. +2g Charles b. 1832. He m. Caroline Beals. She d. 23 Feb. 1915.

+2a John Reeves In June 1857, John Reeves purchased, from William Crosby, 224 acres on the North Freetown Road

(code 25).

John was b. in England in 1819. He came out to RBI. in 1820. He m. Elizabeth Lawless of Norboro, believed to be a daughter of Capt. Thomas Lawless.

They had a family of seven boys and two girls.

+ 321 2a Thomas William b. 6 July 1842 at Freetown. He d. 1921. Thomas m. Mary Sullivan, Clinton. They had one son, Fred W.

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