REESE, Wm Henry

William Thomas Reese --> William Thomas Reese, Sr --> William Henry Reese --> Simeon Reese? --> Hugh Reese

William Henry Reese

born:  1832 Warren County, GA

died:  10 Nov 1879 Milledgeville, Baldwin County, GA (aneuryism ... age 46) 
Obituary: Union Recorder of Baldwin County, GA

Interred:  Black Springs Baptist Church, Milledgeville, GA
   - No record of where Wm Henry's buried within graveyard.  Church graveyard was split in two so a road could run through it and many plots were not able to be identified and moved.  Only record for this internment location is through the Union Record story shown below.

Married #1:  1853 Sarah Shields (son John is born in 1853 and Sarah is gone by 1858)
Married #2:  16 May 1858 to Eugenia Josephine Hackney
Occupation:  Railroad Bridge Watchman
Civil War Veteran (lost his arm in the battle of Antietam and was POW in Virginia) 
     - Private enlisted 15 May 1862 48th Regiment of the Georgia Volunteer Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia, CSA out of Warren County. His regiment did battle on the Sunken Road (Bloody Lane) in Antietam on 17 Sept 1862.

Missing Documented Information:

1. Who is William Henry's Father
2. Was William Henry married twice?  Where is record of 1st marriage.
3. Where was William Henry Reese and his parents from age 1 to 17?
4. Need Birth information with name of parents
5. Look for original plot map prior to move  
6. Civil War Pension records
7. Look through more Union Record information to see if there is more information on Wm Henry. (new Digital Library of Georgia site:  (http://milledgeville.galileo.usg.edu/milledgeville/search)

Assumption 1:  

Simeon is William Henry's father
Note:  But wouldn't Wm have named his 1st son Simeon instead of John?  Does the naming convention mean his father's name is John?  Not necessarily because he is working for and living with his new wife and her father, JOHN Shields, hence John S. Reese is name of first son.

Note:  Simeon is living with William and his young family as shown in the 1860 census.

1850 Census Warren County, GA
SHIELDS, John Shields, Lucy Shields, Sarah Shields, Martha Reese, William H. Roberts, Rebecca C. Roberts, Robert 64 58 23 18 18 11 10 Farmer Laborer     Laborer GA NC GA GA GA GA GA 1860 Census Warren County, GA REESE, William H. Reese, Eugenia Reese, John S. Reese, James H. Reese, Simeon Hackney, Samuel Hackney, Isabella 28 20 7 1 60 10 13 Laborer Laborer       GA GA GA GA GA GA GA

Assumption 2:  

Wm was married twice, the first time to a daughter of John and Lucy Hillman Shields, possibly in 1832 in Warren County, GA (Sarah or Martha?)

Note:  Wm's 1st son's name is John, born in 1853, 5 years before his marriage to Eugenia.

Note:  Wm was living with the Shield family in 1850.