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David Clinton Reeves
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David Clinton Reeves served as a principal and educator at Ponchatoula Colored School. Born circa 1897 in Pike County, Mississippi, to Jeff Davis Reeves and Julia Reeves, he passed away at the age of 62 on April 3, 1958, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The 1940 United States Federal Census indicates he resided on South Street in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, and had attained four years of college education. He was married to Ada Reeves.
His U.S. World War I Draft Card (1917-1918) lists his address as Crossett Street in Ashley County, Arkansas. Reeves had siblings named Lela, Arthur, and Eva. His father, Jeff, born around 1861 in Pike County, Mississippi, died in 1938 and is interred in China Grove Cemetery in Tylertown, Walthall County, Mississippi. Jeff Davis Reeves was the son of Sami (Samuel R. Reeves) and Polly Reeves, with Sami having been born in 1836 in Louisiana.
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