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| David Clinton Reeves Photo Credit Gwen Carter |
Professor David Clinton Reeves was a principal and educator at Ponchatoula Colored School. He was born around 1897 to Jeff Davis Reeves and Julia Reeves in Pike County, Mississippi. He died at the age 62 on April 3, 1958 in New Orleans, Louisiana. According the 1940 United States Federal Census he was living on South Street in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. He was an educator and completed four years of college. He was married to Ada Reeves.
According to his U.S. World War I Draft Card, 1917-1918, he was living on Crossett Street in Ashley County, Arkansas. Professor Reeves had several siblings: Lela Reeves, Arthur Reeves, and Eva Reeves. His father Jeff was born around 1861 in Pike County, Mississippi. Jeff died in 1938 and is buried in China Grove Cemetery in Tylertown, Walthall County, Mississippi.
Jeff Davis Reeves was the son of Sami (Samuel R. Reeves) and Polly Reeves. Sami was born in 1836 in Louisiana.
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