Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2013, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and used with permission of Fred Smoot ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. ========================================================================== The Goodspeed Publishing Company, History of Tennessee, 1887 N. H. REEVE was born in Greene County, February 20, 1847, the son of JESSE S. and NAOMI (WORLEY) REEVE, the former born in 1814, in this State, and of Scotch-Irish origin. For ten years he was a merchant at Rheatown, and in 1863 went to Abingdon, Va., on account of his Southern sympathies, but in 1868 returned to Blountville as a merchant, and died in 1872. He was a prominent member of the, Methodist Episcopal Church South. He sustained a loss of about $20,000 by the war. The mother was born near Bristol in 1822, and was the daughter of NATHAN WORLEY. She died in 1859, a devout Christian. Our subject, the eldest of four children, was reared in Rheatown, Abingdon and Blountville, and was educated at Jefferson Academy, at the latter place. In 1869 he began the study of medicine with Dr. N. T. DULANEY, of Blountville, and in 1874 graduated from the Medical department of the University at Nashville. He then began practice with his preceptor, at Blountville, and two years later removed to what is now Bluff City. In 1886 he removed to Bristol and established himself in his present extensive practice. ADELIA M., a daughter of JACOB K. SNAPP, became his wife in 1874. She was born March 25,1847, near Blountville, and was the youngest daughter of her parents. She was educated at the Martha Washington College, Virginia, graduating in 1866, and was under the care of her brother, Col. JAMES P. She early became a member of the Methodist Church, and was an esteemed and cultured lady. Four of their six children are living. *NOTE: Dr. Nathan H. Reeve died in 1933 and is buried in East Hill Cemetery, Bristol, Sullivan County. ===========================================================================