{"id":297,"date":"2012-03-17T00:53:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T05:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/?p=297"},"modified":"2012-03-17T00:55:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T05:55:38","slug":"reece-frank-reece-and-anna-eggers-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/reece-frank-reece-and-anna-eggers-family\/","title":{"rendered":"REECE &#8211; Frank Reece and Anna Eggers Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Son: <strong>John I. Reece<\/strong>(1853-1918\/1919) married<strong> Sarah E. Maples<\/strong> (b. 1857). John was a farmer. Sarah was descended from Rev. L.L. and Amanda (Brown) Maples. Amanda was a descendent of <strong>Colonel Jacob Brown<\/strong>, who founded the Nollichucky Settlement, which was the second settlement in Tennessee. Served as a soldier of the Civil war. They were married in Johnson county in 1875 and had fourteen children; eleven sons and three daughters. One son died in infancy.<\/p>\n<p>Son of John and Sarah: <strong>Brazilla Carroll Reece:<\/strong> born on the 22 December 1899, in Johnson County TN. Brazilla resided in Butler, TN. Merchant and lumber dealer. Earned his B.A. in 1914 and was a teacher at New York University. Served in WWI and was a 2nd lieutenant. Honorably discharged in 1919. Elected to Congress upon his return to Butler. He was a Republican and a Baptist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joseph I. Reece<\/strong> Son of John and Sarah Reece was born in Johnson county on the 15th of October, 1883. Joseph&#8217;s life was devoted to educational work. He received a B.A. in 1908 from Carson and Newman College and earned his masters degree by 1910. He married <strong>Bertha Hendricks<\/strong> on the 28th of December, 1908, in South Carolina, daughter of Mathew and Mary (Looper) Hendricks. Mr. Reece was a baptist and a republican. They had at least one son, Josef b. 1921.<\/p>\n<p><strong>James L. Reece<\/strong>: Another son of John and Sarah. Was a teacher and eventually ran one of the largest stores in Butler. He married on the 24th of March, 1912, Elsie Crosswhite, a daughter of <strong>Mrs. Kate Crosswhite<\/strong>. He was a republican and a baptist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Son: John I. Reece(1853-1918\/1919) married Sarah E. Maples (b. 1857). John was a farmer. Sarah was descended from Rev. L.L. and Amanda (Brown) Maples. Amanda was a descendent of Colonel Jacob Brown, who founded the Nollichucky Settlement, which was the second settlement in Tennessee. Served as a soldier of the Civil war. They were married [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[14,87,86,85,84],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families","tag-brown","tag-crosswhite","tag-hendricks","tag-maples","tag-reece"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}