My primary genealogy web page covers my paternal surname lineage of REEVES. While my maternal lineage of BISHOP is just as meaningful to me, I have not succeeded in tracing it beyond my great-grandfather Brinkley Bishop. However, I have recorded here some of what I know at the present time. This lineage picks up my ancestry at my mother's name from the PAUL REEVES

HOME PAGE, which covers my paternal lineage back to 1490:

 

1. Paul Reeves b. —– = Peggy Sylvia —–––-

 

1. Mother of Paul Reeves was Edith Samantha Bishop b. 8/23/1904 d. 9/2/1987 = Rodolphus Wright Reeves

 

2. James Bishop (grandfather) b. July 31, 1860 d. 11/22/1939 = 1. Mary Jane Whitley 2. Fannie McDermott  3. Emma Hunter:

 

JAMES BISHOP'S ISSUE BY EMMA HUNTER:

i. Tiny Robert Bishop b. 1/8/1903 d. 2002

ii. Edith Samantha Bishop(see #1 above) b. 8/23/1904 d. 9/2/1987 = Rodolphus Wright Reeves

iii. James Paul Bishop b. 3/2/1907 d. 10/26/1940 = Inez Ashton

iv. Margaret Jewel Bishop b. 5/20/1909 d. 1/7/1959 = W.L. Graydon

v. Rose Ella Mabel Bishop b. 6/4/1911 = Ed Fletcher

vi. Alice Emma Bishop b. 5/5/1914 d. 5/5/1914

 

3. Brinkley Bishop(g-grandfather) b. 1804. d. 1875, m. Edie (Edy, Eady) Hardy (Hardee)

 

HIS ISSUE:

i. James Bishop (See #2 above) b. 7/31/1860 d. 11/22/1939 = 1.Fannie McDermott 2. Mary Jane Whitley 3. Emma Hunter

ii. Tolbert Byrd Bishop

iii. Margaret Bishop b. 1842-bef 1877 = Charles Grantham

iv. William Henry Bishop b. 7/3/1844 d. 2/13/1930 = 1.Elizabeth Fleetwood  2. Martha Susan Cates 3. Mary Cornelia Stewart

v. Robert Jackson Bishop b. 4/19/1852 d. 12/24/1936 = Easter Pridgen

vi Mary Bishop b. 1839

 

LINKS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

1. Transcripts of trials of Brinkley Bishop for murder of Thomas Smith in 1849 (pardoned):

    This link may be found within the “Brinkley Bishop Biography.”

2. Brinkley Bishop Biography