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Susan died at her son's home in Kendalville, Indiana.

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GEORGE REEVES, one of the substantial and representative farmers of
Oakland County, Michigan, resides on his well cultivated estate of 200
acres, located in section 22, Pontiac township. Mr. Reeves was born June 3, 1823,
in Palmyra, W\ayne County, New York. and is a son of Stephen and Mary
(White) Reeves, and a grandson of James Reeves, who was born in England,
and reared these children to maturity: Lyman; Stephen, James, Fannie,
Amanda and Sarah.

Stephen Reeves was not only an early settler in Oakland County, but he
was also one of the most prominent and efficient men of his time. He was
born in Wayne County, New York, and was reared there to a farmer's life, and it
was in the hope of bettering his condition that he started for the wilds
of Michigan when the Territory was opened for settlement. With two
companions, Stephen Reeves walked the whole distance from his home in Wayne County
to Oakland County, and here he secured I6o acres of land at $1.25 per
acre, *securing a government title. When he brought his wife and babe, our
subject, to this place in the following year, it was still covered with its
natural growth of timber, all of which he cleared off by his own industry. The first
pioneer 'home was a log house, I8 by 20 feet in dimensions, which he erected and
which sheltered the family for about 14 years, when he constructed a part
of.the present comfortable frame building. Those days were often filled
with much hardship, for within a radius of o1 miles there were no neighbors
except at the little settlement which was the nucleus of the present city of
Pontiac.

There were no roads, no mills, no churches nor schools, and the Indians
were still a menace to the courageous white settlers, even Chief Pontiac
himself frequently visiting the neighborhood. In a community of this kind, a man
of the sterling character of Stephen Reeves was welcomed and upon him were
laid the burdens of judicial life and he was called upon to serve in
almost -every local office, his capacity being recognized along with his
integrity.

For a long period he adjusted the differences among his neighbors as a
justice of the peace, and for I4. years he served as judge of Probate, under
appointment of the late venerable Lewis Cass, at that time Governor of
Michigan.

His life closed in I873 after 75 useful years. In his youth he served in
the Revolutionary Wiar as a lieutenant. He was a stanch Democrat and upheld
the principles of that party until the close of his life. The present Presbyterian
Church of Po

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