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Submitted: 10/10/12 • Approved: 10/11/12 • Last Updated: 10/15/12 • R765261-G765260-S3
February 21, 1862, Izard County, Arkansas
November 11, 1954, Bono, Craighead County, Arkansas
Daughter of William Anderson Spence & Emily Caroline Grills Spence
Married John Henry Reeves, December 28, 1881, Izard County, Arkansas
Calico Rock Progress, Calico Rock, Arkansas, December 10, 1954:
Former Resident Dies at Age of 92
Mrs. Nettie Henrietta Spence Reeves aged 92 years, eight months and eleven days, passed away at the home of a son Charlie Reeves, at Bono, Ark., on November 11.
She was a long time resident of Izard County and lived the most of her life around Oxford and Calico Rock. She was married to John Henry Reeves and to this union eight children were born, four preceding her in death. Surviving are: Herman H. Reeves of Calico Rock, Austin Reeves of Wenatchee, Wash., Grover Reeves, Medical Lake, Wash., and Charles of Bono; 29 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Remmel Rowden. Burial was in the Shaver Campground Cemetery.
(Photo courtesy of Vera Reeves)
Contributed on 10/10/12 by maxparnell
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