Sabine-DeSoto County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Reeves, Gilmer February 15, 1892 - 
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Source: A History of Louisiana, v.3, p. 12; 1925
Author: Henry E. Chambers

GILMER CLYDE REEVES, superintendent of schools of Sabine Parish, has many of 
the natural qualifications of the born teacher and leader of men. This interest 
is primarily directed to the young people in their relationship as students and 
prospective members of society. He is now in his fourth year as parish 
superintendent, and since he took charge he has had among other duties the 
supervision of the building of high schools at Belmont, Negrett, Mount Carmel 
and Fisher. More important than the additions to material equipment has been 
his effective campaign in arousing interest in school patrons to the work of 
their children in school, and statistics show that since he became 
superintendent the record of illiteracy in the parish has decreased fully fifty 
per cent.

	Mr. Reeves was born at Longstreet, in De Soto Parish, February 15, 
1892, son of Louis Cantrell and Susan (Cook) Reeves. His mother was a native of 
Louisiana, of Alabama parentage, and she died in 1922, at the age of about 
sixty years. Louis C. Reeves, who is now seventy-nine years of age, was born in 
Alabama, served as a Confederate soldier, and has been a farmer and in early 
manhood a teacher. He is a man of wide interests, has been a student and 
observer of parish, state and national politics, though never a seeker of 
office for himself, has been a leader in the Christian Church and the Sunday 
School in his community and a strong supporter of good schools. He and his wife 
had four children: Helen, wife of David Thompson, a lumber manufacturer at 
Palestine, Texas; P. Cantrell; on the old homestead; Gilmer C.; and Lottie, 
wife of Marvin Thompson, a farmer and oil man at Logansport, Louisiana.

	Gilmer C. Reeves attended the Longstreet High School and from 1911 to 
1913 was a student in the Louisiana State Normal at Natchitoches. He was 
assistant principal and five years principal of the Florien High School in 
Sabine Parish, and in 1920 was chosen parish superintendent of schools. Mr. 
Reeves is an athlete, has played football and baseball in school, enjoys as his 
favorite sport the following of hounds, and he has encouraged athletics in 
schools and other forms of wholesome competition.

	He married Miss Miriam Griffin, daughter of T. J. Griffin. She was born 
at Clinton, in East Feliciana Parish, and is a graduate of the Louisiana State 
Normal School, where she was a schoolmate of her husband. She taught ten years 
in East Carroll Parish, and was teacher at Florien when her husband was 
principal. Mr. and Mrs. Reeves have one daughter, Margaret Elizabeth. He is a 
member of the Christian Church, but in the absence of a church of that 
denomination at Many is active in the Methodist Church, of which she is a 
member. He is affiliated with the Masonic Order and the Louisiana Teachers’ 
Association.

Additional Comments:
Gilmer Clyde Reeves

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