Louisa Reeves, Allen Parish Louisiana Submitted by Chas Alcock ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ REEVES, "Aunt" Louisa 1835-1919 Copied from the May 2, 1919, Lake Charles Daily Typed by Chas Alcock (From Thursday's Daily) Monday, the 28th, there passed away one of the oldest citizens of old Calcasieu Parish, Mrs. Isaac Reeves, more familiarly known as "Aunt Louisa Reeves." The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Cole, she was born January 8, 1835, on the old Cretian Vacherie, on Bayou Nezpique, east of Oberlin. Mrs. Reeves was the last and youngest of six children. Her five brothers, Solomon, Absalom, John, Jacob and James, all preceded her to the grave. "Jim" Cole lived and died at Prairie Soileau; Absalom died at Clear Creek, being the first husband of Mrs. Artimes Cockran, and father of "Man" and "Little Babe" Cole of Clear Creek. Mrs. Reeves leaves three children, Frank, James and Mrs. Delia Richardson, another son, Leo, having died some years ago. When a young woman, in 1859, Mrs. Reeves, with Mrs. Abner Cole, was on the same day baptized into the Aimwell Baptist Church, in Hickory Flat, near where Moeling now is. Later and until her death she was a member of Calvary Baptist Church, near Oberlin. Nearly a century ago three brothers, John, Jake and Billy Cole, came to this country from Mississippi, giving to Calcasieu Parish a large and honorable family, Mrs. Reeves' father being one of these three brothers. Death came suddenly and peacefully while she was making her home with her son Jim, west of Oberlin. Interment took place at the Cole and Lyles Cemetery, south of Oberlin, Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Paul Leeds of Kinder conducting the funeral service, a large number of relatives and friends, among them Rev. L. M. Cole, a nephew, being present.