Contribution from Sidney (Virgil), Eva and the Reeves family

Here are some pictures that have been contributed from Sidney Reeves and family.....


This was taken at Uncle Luther's and Aunt Annie's house in White Settlement
(suburb of Ft. Worth) in about 1953.

From left:

Durwood
Virgil
Gayle (Dub's daughter)
Shirley holding Lee (Dub's son)
Martha
Uncle Lee with guitar (Uncle Lee was my mother's brother)




Uncle Luther holding Virgil, and the former slave, Irvin Anderson, or as we
called him, "Slater"

From the left;

Grandpa (my daddy)
Grandma Minnie Reeves
Grandpa Will Reeves
Uncle Louie
Uncle Luther
Uncle Alan (on mule)

Before cars! Seems strange, doesn't it?

Jewel and Claude Reeves -- date unknown


Jewel and Claude Reeves holding Sidney Virgil -- dated approx. 1941 ?


From left:

Grandma Stanley (Claud Reeves's mother - after she married Grandpa Stanley)
Grandpa Newt Stanley
Virgil
Martha
Durwood

At Grandma and Grandpa Stanley's house in New Harmony, Texas



Sid, Johnny and Bill. This was taken in Dallas around 1948-49.


Bill, Sid and Johnny. In front of the Reeves farm house, circa.
1946.

Sid fishing from the bridge at Stell's Crossing, over the Neches
River in Van Zandt County. The way the crow flies, it is probably 2 or 3
miles from the Reeves farm. It was also an Indian camp ground where we used
to find arrow heads and broken pottery. I was probably around six years old
-- old enough to smoke a corncob pipe.


Claude and Jewel Reeves -- age 50 and 40 respectively.

Contribution from Wesley, Annie Ruth (Reeves) and the Mayhall family

Luther with fish
Luther, Annie Reeves and William
Minnie Clark Reeves Parker Stanley, Newton Stanley and grand children
Uncle Albert and first wife Caturah Cates
Luther and Annie Reeves
Luther fishing
Luther on fiddle
Luther playing banjo
Luther Reeves at pond

G'Mother Minnie, standing, in dark dress, white collarGrandma Minnie Clark Reeves Parker
Jewel Reeves
Jewel, Annie, Martha in kitchen
John Wade, father of Ollie, Jewel, Annie, Fannie....
1912 unknown - Claude
Annie and Luther Reeves
Annie Reeves and Mrs Moss in downtown Dallas
Annie Ruth Reeves Mayhall
CW and Elneta Reeves

History

NEW HARMONY, TEXAS (Smith County). New Harmony, also called Harmony, is a farming and church community on Clear Branch and Farm Road 724 two miles south of Mount Sylvan in western Smith County. The area was settled by April 1867, when New Harmony Baptist Church, the oldest continuously active congregation in the county, was organized in the local school building. J. J. Harris served as the first minister and had a fellowship of eighteen. Eventually separate facilities were acquired for the school and the church. By 1903 there were two schools in New Harmony, one with two teachers for seventy-three white pupils, and the other with one teacher for fifty-three black pupils. In 1925 local citizens organized the Mount Olive Baptist Church. The settlement had two churches in 1936, as well as a cemetery, a business, and a cluster of farms. The only school at that time, a white elementary, had two teachers and fifty-four pupils. In 1945 the town had fifty citizens and two businesses, and in 1949 the members of the New Harmony Baptist Church finished a new building. By 1952 the school had been consolidated into the Dixie Independent School District. In 1965 New Harmony consisted of two businesses, two churches, two cemeteries (New Harmony and Breese), and a collection of dwellings on Farm Road 724. The community had forty farms in 1973, and it was shown on the 1981 county highway map. In 2000 the community had 350 inhabitants.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Edward Clayton Curry, An Administrative Survey of the Schools of Smith County, Texas (M.Ed. thesis, University of Texas, 1938). Smith County Historical Society, Historical Atlas of Smith County (Tyler, Texas: Tyler Print Shop, 1965). Donald W. Whisenhunt, comp., Chronological History of Smith County (Tyler, Texas: Smith County Historical Society, 1983).