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After marriage, went by Katherine M.C. Reeves

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February 14, 2007 Paul S. Reeves Sr., 73, of Syracuse, passed away in Florida on February 14, after a brief illness. He was a 39-year veteran of the Syracuse Fire Department. Appointed in 1955, he was awarded the department's Arthur Jenkins Medal for brav-ery in 1960. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1966, to captain in 1970, to district chief in 1972 and to deputy chief in 1975. He retired in 1994. Well-respected and admired by all who knew him, he and his wife, Carol, enjoyed their summer camp at Kasoag Lake, New York, and their winter home in Seminole, Florida. Surviving are his wife of 55 years, the former Carol Ann Fisher; a son, Syracuse District Fire Chief David B. (Luana) Reeves of Cicero; a daughter-in-law, Ruth Reeves Whitmer of Buffalo; five grandchildren, Keith, Jeffery, Justin, Stacia and Karis. He was predeceased by a son, Reverend Paul S. Reeves Jr., in 1983. Services will be 1 p.m. Thursday at Krueger Funeral Home, Mattydale. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. Friends may call 3 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home, 2619 Brewerton Rd. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Reverend Paul S. Reeves Jr. Scholarship Fund at Houghton College, PO Box 128, Houghton, New York 14744. For more information, photos and to sign the guest book, please visit www.kruegerfuneralhome.com. Krueger Funeral Home, Inc.

Published in the Syracuse Post Standard on 2/19/2007.

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713-18-1673

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062-28-7945

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"He was a victim of Polio and walked with a limp as a result of the paralysis. Was a member of the East Palmyra Presbyterian Church."

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Franklyn / Franklin likely has the middle name "Jessup," as this appears in several unconfirmed records.

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From the Arcadian Weekly Gazette,:

Died on Monday morning May 27th
of stomach and bowel difficulty,
Franklin Reeves, aged 64- years: -r He
was the second son of Gen. Lyman
Reeves,.and had passed his life except
five years, on or near the spot where
he was born. The farm was bought
by bis grandfather, James Reeves, Sr.
in 1792. His -wife, formerly Miss
Estelle Parks, and three children,
survive him, the oldest daughter, wife
of E. H. Clark. Mr. Reeves was one of
our inost respected and best loved
citizens. Few men bear so good a
r mutation among their neighbors as
he did. He served the Presbyterian
cnurch a*efder, faithfully for24 years,
and has also been trustee and S. 8.
superint�ndant. We truly have lost
one of our best men.

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Moved to Mississippi before 1848.

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Note: Was a merchant in Abilene, Texas.

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Note: Civil War (CSA) Veteran. Moved to Texas about 1871.

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Note: Killed in action during the Civil War. C.S.A.

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Note: Pastor of Mt. Gilead Church from 1851 to 1866

Burial: Mt. Gilead Cemetery

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Note: Rev. War Militia man?

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Olivia Serres
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Olivia Serres (April 3, 1772 - November 21, 1834), an English impostor, who claimed the title of Princess Olive of Cumberland, was born at Warwick.

Olive was born Olive Wilmot, the daughter of Robert Wilmot, a house painter and embezzler, in Warwick. At the age of ten she was sent to board with her uncle, James Wilmot, rector of Barton-on-the-Heath. In 1789 she rejoined her father in London. She had a talent for painting and studied art with John Thomas Serres, (1759-1825), marine painter to George III, and she married Serres in 1791. They had two daughters. Olive exhibited her paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts and the British Institution, but was financially reckless; both she and her husband were imprisoned for debt. The Serres came to a parting of the ways, with acrimony on both sides: from Serres because Olive had had several affairs when he was away, and from Olive because she was given an allowance of only �200 per annum. George Fields, an artist friend, moved in with Olive and she gave birth to his son prior to her divorce in 1804. She then devoted herself to painting and literature, producing a novel, some poems and a memoir of her uncle, the Rev. Dr Wilmot, in which she endeavoured to prove that he was the author of the Letters of Junius.

In 1817, Olive wrote a letter to the Prince of Wales, claiming that she was the natural daughter of Prince Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland by Mrs. Olive Payne (who was sister of James Wilmot's sister and her actual aunt). She asked the prince for financial support. In a petition to George III, she put forward a claim to be the natural daughter of the Duke of Cumberland, the king's brother.

In 1820, (after her father, her uncle, and King George III had died) she revised her claim. James Wilmot, she claimed, had secretly married the princess Poniatowski, sister of King Stanislaus I of Poland, and their daughter had married the Duke of Cumberland in 1767 at the London house of a nobleman. Olive claimed to be the only child of this marriage, and that her mother had died "of a broken heart" on the Duke of Cumberland's "second" and "bigamous" marriage to Anne Horton (the Duke had actually only married once, the "first" marriage being a fabrication by Olive).

She herself, ten days after her birth, was, she alleged, taken from her mother, and substituted for the still-born child of Robert Wilmot. According to Olive's fantasies, King George III had learned the "truth" and had given her �5000 in cash and a yearly pension of �500 for life. She also claimed to have received support from the king of Poland and to have been created the Duchess of Lancaster by George III in May 1773, which, she said, entitled her to the income of the Duchy of Lancaster. In a memorial to George IV she assumed the title of Princess Olive of Cumberland, placed the royal arms on her carriage and dressed her servants in the royal liveries.

Mrs Serres's claim was supported by documents, and she bore sufficient resemblance to her alleged father to be able to impose on numerous gullible people. In 1821, she had herself rebaptized as the daughter of the Duke of Cumberland at Islington Church, and "announced" her parentage in several letters to the newspapers and in pamphlets. She actually succeeded in obtaining some courtesies in response to her claims of royal status, such as being permitted to pass through the Constitution Gate.

The same year, however, she was arrested again for debt and placed in the King's Bench Prison. She appealed to the public for contributions, placing posters reading "The Princess of Cumberland in Captivity!" all over London, and publishing, in 1822, further details of her claims. On her release, she had an affair with Sheriff J. W. Parkins, a London eccentric, who turned against her when she failed to honour her debts to him. She next had an affair with a young man who called himself William Henry FitzClarence, who claimed to be an illegitimate son of the Duke of Clarence.

Olive managed to persuade Sir Gerard Noel, an aged member of Parliament, to make inquiry into her claims, but by this time the royal family was fighting back, having located her birth certificate, a statement by Robert Wilmot stating that he was her natural and lawful father, and a statement from Princess Poniatowski that none of King Stanislaus's sisters had ever been to England. In 1823 Sir Robert Peel, then Home Secretary, speaking in parliament, responded to Noel's speech in Olive's favour with a denunciation of her documents as forgeries and her story as a fabrication. It was concluded that her claims were false, but Olive escaped prosecution for forgery.

Her husband, who had never given her pretensions any support, expressly denied his belief in them in his will. Olive continued a shadowy existence in and out of debtors' prisons. In 1830 she again published a pamphlet staking a claim on royalty. On her death, Mrs Serres left two daughters. The elder, who married Antony Ryves, a portrait painter, upheld her mother's claims and styled herself Princess Lavinia of Cumberland. In 1866 she took her case into court, producing all the documents on which her mother had relied, but the jury, without waiting to hear the conclusion of the reply for the crown, unanimously declared the signatures to be forgeries.

Mrs Serres's pretensions were probably the result of an absurd vanity. Between 1807 and 1815 she had managed to make the acquaintance of some members of the Royal family, and from this time onwards seems to have been obsessed with the idea of raising herself, at all costs, to their social level. The tale once invented, she brooded so continuously over it that she probably ended by believing it herself.

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Note: Some info on this line obtained from Judy Lyon (Prodigy #BFHM99A) on April 14, 1992.

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Submitted by: Beulah McCain, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina 29576 April 4, 1996

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