Individual Details
Henry Reece
(26 Dec 1810 - 6 Nov 1885)
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**********Someone has mistakenly added Jesse Coleman Reece as Henry&Elizabeth Reece's child. He is not their child. He may be related, but not their child. So Sorry that someone has added wrong information that I cannot remove.
Henry Reece was born December 26,1810 in Georgia to John Martin Reece SR (1755-1840) and Mary Smart Reece (1768-1846). He married Elizabeth Wood on March 17, 1830 in Indiana. Elizabeth was the daughter of James Wood SR (1782-1852) and Martha Miller Wood (1792-1865). Henry and Elizabeth had 11 children: James Lewis, Mary Ann Reece Treat, Martha Jane Reece Morrison, John S, Sarah Reece Freeman, Isabella Reece Morrison, Samuel W, Bryce Smart, Joseph Lee, Silas Rose, Elizabeth Jane Reece Warren.
In 1840, Henry and Elizabeth lived in Missouri. In 1850, they lived in Campbell, Searcy County, Arkansas.
The 1860 census shows Henry and Elizabeth living in Big Flat, Arkansas. The 1860 Batesville Land Office records show that Henry purchased land in Searcy County, Arkansas.
In 1870, Henry and family live in Big Flat. He is a farmer. His real estate value is $500.00 and his personal property value is $550.00.
The 1880 census states that Henry and Elizabeth were farmers.
Henry passed on November 6, 1885, in Big Flat, Arkansas, at the age of 74, and is resting in the Big Flat Cemetery beside his wife Elizabeth.
Henry and Elizabeth's descendants, led by 2nd Great-Granddaughter Sherion Reece Gust, erected a new monument between their old stones.
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The following notes are taken from a letter written by Pinkney Mayberry Reece to his father George Washington Reece in 1957. They were the sons of Brice Smart and Amanda Caroline Baker Reece."Aunt Margaret confirmed many things about Steve Treat and Henry Reece. We always knew Steve was thought of as a champion strong man without knowing he had played the stage professionally as the world champion fighter of the "world." She also told me that my grandfather Henry Reece was his fight and show manager and that they traveled by donkey cart over many states inviting all comers to come and fight without ever losing a battle. As they went their fight rounds, they also made dates in vaudeville houses to put on stunts of the champion strong man. It was said that the favorite stunt of Steve's was to lift, unaided, a well filled large water barrel and while holding the barrel high in the air, taking a drink out of the bung hole." "I remember one thing that Aunt Margaret told me that "rang a bell." She said that on one of their fight rounds in Vicksburg, MS Ironworks, they won a big wager that Steve could lift a bar of iron that took a dozen ordinary men to lift. The bell is this, a similar stunt is described in the book, "Shepard of the Hills," convincing me that Stephen Treat was the inspiration of Harold Bell Wright's first novel. Wright wrote it in a house that I saw in the vicinity that Steve lived in for years.
"***Nettie told several stories about Jayhawkers (neither Union or Confederate, just men who scouted, killing and robbing in the Ozarks.) "Two of Captain Brand's men, they just camped here and yonder. Stealing whatever they could find off of Cedar Creek, and was roaming down at the mouth of the creek, right plumb where that there church house, school house stand down there. They had a little pasture and they loved it there." "And Old man Reece (Henry Reece) and one of Dad's brother's, Uncle David Morrison, who had married Old Man Reece's daughter, Isabella Reece. They slipped down there and hid right down in a cedar glade right close to where they (jayhawkers) was turning the cattle out. One of them was down there and laid the fence down, the others was running them out. My uncle Dave shot him right across the gap there and he fell across the gap. And I just guess he killed him. And all those cattle came out, jumped out, come back up the creek, and all come home."
**********Someone has mistakenly added Jesse Coleman Reece as Henry&Elizabeth Reece's child. He is not their child. He may be related, but not their child. So Sorry that someone has added wrong information that I cannot remove.
Henry Reece was born December 26,1810 in Georgia to John Martin Reece SR (1755-1840) and Mary Smart Reece (1768-1846). He married Elizabeth Wood on March 17, 1830 in Indiana. Elizabeth was the daughter of James Wood SR (1782-1852) and Martha Miller Wood (1792-1865). Henry and Elizabeth had 11 children: James Lewis, Mary Ann Reece Treat, Martha Jane Reece Morrison, John S, Sarah Reece Freeman, Isabella Reece Morrison, Samuel W, Bryce Smart, Joseph Lee, Silas Rose, Elizabeth Jane Reece Warren.
In 1840, Henry and Elizabeth lived in Missouri. In 1850, they lived in Campbell, Searcy County, Arkansas.
The 1860 census shows Henry and Elizabeth living in Big Flat, Arkansas. The 1860 Batesville Land Office records show that Henry purchased land in Searcy County, Arkansas.
In 1870, Henry and family live in Big Flat. He is a farmer. His real estate value is $500.00 and his personal property value is $550.00.
The 1880 census states that Henry and Elizabeth were farmers.
Henry passed on November 6, 1885, in Big Flat, Arkansas, at the age of 74, and is resting in the Big Flat Cemetery beside his wife Elizabeth.
Henry and Elizabeth's descendants, led by 2nd Great-Granddaughter Sherion Reece Gust, erected a new monument between their old stones.
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The following notes are taken from a letter written by Pinkney Mayberry Reece to his father George Washington Reece in 1957. They were the sons of Brice Smart and Amanda Caroline Baker Reece."Aunt Margaret confirmed many things about Steve Treat and Henry Reece. We always knew Steve was thought of as a champion strong man without knowing he had played the stage professionally as the world champion fighter of the "world." She also told me that my grandfather Henry Reece was his fight and show manager and that they traveled by donkey cart over many states inviting all comers to come and fight without ever losing a battle. As they went their fight rounds, they also made dates in vaudeville houses to put on stunts of the champion strong man. It was said that the favorite stunt of Steve's was to lift, unaided, a well filled large water barrel and while holding the barrel high in the air, taking a drink out of the bung hole." "I remember one thing that Aunt Margaret told me that "rang a bell." She said that on one of their fight rounds in Vicksburg, MS Ironworks, they won a big wager that Steve could lift a bar of iron that took a dozen ordinary men to lift. The bell is this, a similar stunt is described in the book, "Shepard of the Hills," convincing me that Stephen Treat was the inspiration of Harold Bell Wright's first novel. Wright wrote it in a house that I saw in the vicinity that Steve lived in for years.
"***Nettie told several stories about Jayhawkers (neither Union or Confederate, just men who scouted, killing and robbing in the Ozarks.) "Two of Captain Brand's men, they just camped here and yonder. Stealing whatever they could find off of Cedar Creek, and was roaming down at the mouth of the creek, right plumb where that there church house, school house stand down there. They had a little pasture and they loved it there." "And Old man Reece (Henry Reece) and one of Dad's brother's, Uncle David Morrison, who had married Old Man Reece's daughter, Isabella Reece. They slipped down there and hid right down in a cedar glade right close to where they (jayhawkers) was turning the cattle out. One of them was down there and laid the fence down, the others was running them out. My uncle Dave shot him right across the gap there and he fell across the gap. And I just guess he killed him. And all those cattle came out, jumped out, come back up the creek, and all come home."
Events
| Birth | 26 Dec 1810 | Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia | |||
| Death | 6 Nov 1885 | Big Flat, Baxter County, Arkansas | |||
| Burial | Big Flat Cemetery, Big Flat, Baxter County, Arkansas |
Families
| Spouse | Elizabeth Wood (1815 - 1894) |
| Father | John Martin Reece (1755 - 1840) |
| Mother | Mary Smart (1768 - 1846) |
| Sibling | Sara Francis Reece (1815 - 1851) |