Elizabeth: Thank you so much for your reply...it appears that there is no connection in the families...Samuel and
Celia Reese (
Celia in the 1870 census is spelled
Seley) had a number of children, they were: Louis, Albert, Amy,
Aubrey,
Addie, Kate, Bobby, Alma, Helen,
Jake and Lillian...
Great grandfather Samuel
Reese built and operated the first cotton gin in that part of East
Texas, near Daphne...this was shortly after
Eli Whitney, ivented the first cotton gin...The gin eventually killed Samuel, when he was caught up in the machinery lost an arm and bled to death...that's about all I can find out him...anyway, thank you very much for replying, Bob Young