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www.childers-shepherd.org, 25 Mar 2018
Anthony Reece + Sarah Sallie Chambers
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Samuel Reece                +              Lucinda Church
1810  -  1901                       1834                      1816   -   1899
Ashe NC  Haywood NC                        Ashe NC                          Ashe NC    Haywood NC
                                              |
                             Lenard E. Reece (Matilda Moore), 1834 - 1900
                             Johnathan C. Reece, 1837 -
                             Isaac N. Reece, 1840 -
                             Jesse F. Reece (Betsy [Juester?], 1844 - ?
                             Polly E. Reece, 1847 - ?
                             Henry N. Reece, 1850 - ?
                             William A. Reece, 1852 - ?
                             Noah Moss Reece (Ellen Rice), 1854 - 1943
                             
Louisa Jane Reece (A. J. Lambert, Samuel Edwards), 1855* - 1930
                             L. Avaline Reece, 1858 - ?

Sources: U. S. Census records 1860, 1870, 1900;
     NC Death Cert., Noah Moss Reece, Rutherford Co, NC, 15 Sep 1943;
  Clark Family tree, via Ancestry.com;
 Ancestry.com's OneWorldTree

Note: At the time of the 1870 Census, this family resided at the Forks of Pigeon in Haywood County.
In the 1880 census, Andrew J. Lambert, age 35, miner, resided with Burton Reece, whose father
William Reece was Samuel's nephew, in that same community.

*In the census of 1860, Louisa Jane's age was listed as 4, for a birth year of about 1856. In 1870,
her age was listed as 15, for a birth year of about 1855. In 1890, at the time of Louisa Jane Reese
Lambert's marriage to J. Samuel Edwards, her age was recorded as 27, giving her a birth year of
abt. 1863. In the 1900 U. S. Census, her age was recorded as 39, giving her a birth year of abt.
1861.