Like the many outlaws he had arrested, he was tried before Judge Isaac Parker. In 1893, he transferred to the Eastern District of Texas, and in 1897, to serve at the Muskogee Federal Court in the Indigenous territory. . included the Indian Territory. State and local authorities replace federal marshals. Killing some 14 men during his service, Reeves always said that he never shot a man when it was not necessary for him to do so in the discharge of his duty to save his own life.. He married Nellie Jennie (or Jenney), a Texan, and the couple had 10 children, five boys and five girls. One of his first acts was to make James Fagan a U.S. As the story goes, Reeves arrested more than 3,000 outlaws and killed 14 criminals without ever sustaining a gunshot wound. During the two years that he served in this capacity, there were reportedly no crimes on his beat. Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. The American Civil War begins when confederate soldiers open fire on Fort Sumter in South Carolina and union soldiers surrender. Reeves, though reluctant to take on the difficult task, did the job when no other deputy dared to. Essence may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Now, according to the MTV Entertainment Studios upfront presentation (via Deadline), it's going to be a new chapter in the "Yellowstone" prequel "1883." So it is one of the safest places for escaped slaves. It would be a good idea to occasionally highlight They had 11 children: William Reeves, Edgar Reeves, Lulu Reeves, Sally Reeves, Robert Reeves, Harriet Reeves, George Reeves, Alice Mae Reeves, Newland Reeves, Benjamin Bennie . Lnea del tiempo de desarrollo embrionario y fetal. 1898. He quickly gained a reputation as a tough and fearless lawman who managed to bring in outlaws thought to be invincible. Just a few years later, on January 12, 1910, Bass Reeves died of Brights disease an outdated term for a kidney disease that is now known as nephritis. In any case, Reeves went to live among the Creek and Seminole Indians. Reeves and his wife Nellie Jennie raised a family of ten children, five boys and five girls. [2] On April 22, 1899, she received her land grant patent from the Creek Nation in the amount of 40 acres. Once, when two potential assassins forced Reeves off his horse, he asked them for one last request - that someone read him a letter from his wife. Born to slave parents in 1838 in Arkansas, Bass Reeves was a member of the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. It is unclear how and exactly when Bass Reeves left his owner but at some He died on January 12, 1910, and he was buried in the Union Agency Cemetery at Muskogee, Oklahoma, but the exact location of his grave is unknown. At this time, the Freemen's Bureau Act of. Reeves transfers to Muskogee, Indian Territory. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond fair use, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. The Inmate Case File of Ben Reeves (NAID 7861497), contains a wealth of information about his characteristics, correspondence, and his conduct while incarcerated. According to the Chickasaw Enterprise newspaper, at this point in his service as deputy US marshal, Reeves had apprehended more than three thousand people for violating federal laws in Indian Territory. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/reeves-bass. Reeves, who at this point was now nearly 70, joined the Muskogee Oklahoma Police Department as the only Black patrolman. The court stated, therefore we hold that Ben Reeves, because of the fact that he murdered his wife, Castella Brown, is not disqualified from inheriting from her under the Creek law of descent and distribution, and therefore the plaintiff in error DeGraggenreid took, by his conveyance set forth in this cause, his entire interest in the allotment of said Castella Brown.[5], On September 22, 1911, a Ft. Leavenworth clerk wrote to Mrs. Sallie Sanders of Ft. Smith, Arkansas on behalf of Ben Reeves. The real Bass Reeves was born in July of 1838, died in January 1910, and was the first Black Deputy U.S. Marshall that lived west of the Mississippi River. Marshal. Failed to delete memorial. In 1907, law enforcement was assumed by state agencies and Reeves duties as a deputy marshal came to an end. They had 11 children: Robert E Reeves, Bass Reeves and 9 other children. federal judges or other court officials. Judge Parker appoints James Fagan as U.S. marshal. The real Nat Love was born into slavery in 1854. Bass married Nellie Jinny Reeves (born Wilson) in 1864, at age 26. Bass Reeves began to ride the Oklahoma range in search of outlaws. Bass was 62, he was an imposing figure; always riding on a large white stallion. Resend Activation Email. This button displays the currently selected search type. These locations are repeated in Bass, Jane and Bass' parents alleged birth places. Dozier was known as a jack-of-all-trades when it came to committing crimes, as they covered a wide range from cattle and horse rustling, to holding up banks, stores, and stagecoaches; to murder and land swindles. He had a settlement of 75,000 square miles in what is now Oklahoma and Arkansas and killed 14 outlaws as part of the over 3,000 he took in. He married Nellie Jennie, a Texan, and fathered ten children, five boys and five girls. discoveries. When the Civil War broke out, William Reeves' son George was made a colonel in the Confederate army and took Bass to war with him. The email does not appear to be a valid email address. Try again. He is named for his grandfather, Bass Washington. As such, he was authorized to arrest both black and white lawbreakers. He arrested over 3,000 . his church minister for selling illegal alcohol. Https://books.google.com/books?id=oLSZAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA627&lpg=PA627&dq=Cynthia+Tolliver+supreme+court&source=bl&ots=ppz5UDbEBj&sig=ACfU3U03UsaC1R9sBabfBMIWgxxUBI3hzA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiqtKr_6M7xAhWEPM0KHUoiCLQQ6AEwEXoECB4QAw#v=onepage&q=arkansas&f=false . While Reeves was a successful farmer, rancher, and father, he occasionally worked as a scout and used his tracking skills to help lawmen find criminals but his true second act had yet to begin. Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. In the film, Beetz portrays Nats on-again, off-again lover, the fearless Stagecoach Mary. Children. for the Federal Western District Court at Fort Smith, Arkansas, a jurisdiction that Freeman said, This is a Black man in Americas legendary Western history who has been totally overlooked. [7] There is no evidence that he served in any branch of the military. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. 0 cemeteries found in Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas, USA. On February 13, 1903 he was received at Ft. Leavenworth Penitentiary and became Inmate No. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Jane Reeves (147727516)? Reeves buys farmland near Van Buren, AR. Freeman said that he has always wanted to do his own Western as long as its about Reeves. She was the second womanand first African American womanto have that occupation. Reeves, Bass, "Bass Reeves" was originally a standalone limited series that was coming to Paramount+ with Taylor Sheridan, but it's morphed a bit. Marshal service. By all accounts, Reeves was also a master of disguise. Bass Reeves, was the first black U.S. Deputy Marshal west of the Mississippi River and one of the greatest frontier heroes in our nations history. outlaw Tom Story for five years between 1884 and 1889, finally killing him in a gunfight. Please try again later. In 1992 Reeves was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Center. 1901 - Reeves's Arrests Make the Press . In the film, Majors plays Nat Love, the leader of a band of outlaws on a quest to hunt down his sworn enemy Rufus Buckthe man who murdered Loves parents, and the one responsible for the cross embedded in his forehead. Contrary to what classic Westerns might lead us to believe, one in four American cowboys was actually African American. It is not known the exact location of Jennie's grave, the listing from the cemetery log with her name as unknown location in this block. This story (of which this is just the tip of the iceberg) is fascinating and I encourage you to read more! The three outlaws laughed and read the warrant, and in the split second they all took their eyes off Reeves, he managed to draw his gun and kill two of them, and immediately disarmed and arrested the third. His mother died in 1896 due to consumption (tuberculosis) leaving his father widowed with eleven children to care for. We need your support because we are a non-profit organization that relies upon contributions from our community in order to record and preserve the history of our state. Desperate bands of deserters turn to banditry to survive in isolated parts of Arkansas. S > Sumter | R > Reeves > Winnie (Sumter) Reeves, WIKITREE HOME | ABOUT | G2G FORUM | HELP | SEARCH. Marshal Bass Reeves, a Black man who fled the Civil War, befriended the Seminole and Creek Indians, and eventually became one of the greatest lawmen in the Wild West. Bass was born to slave parents in 1838 in Crawford County, Arkansas. and Seminoles. Reeves began to earn a reputation for his courage and success at bringing in or killing many desperadoes of the territory. The story of "1883" and why the Duttons settled exactly where they did had, for all intents and purposes, ended at a natural stopping place. [1] Inmate File of Ben Reeves, image 39 (NAID 7861497), Inmate Case Files, 7/3/1895-11/5/1957; Record Group 129: Records of the Bureau of Prisons, 1870-2009; National Archives at Kansas City, [2] Index to the Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory, 3/4/1907, image 579 (NAID 300320), Final Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes, 18991914; Record Group 48: Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, 1826 2009, [3] Inmate Case File of Ben Reeves, image 1-4 (NAID 7861497); Inmate Case Files, 7/3/1895-11/5/1957; RG 129, [5] Oklahoma. . Together with his wife, spend the next ten years farming and raising ten children (five sons and five daughters): Newland, Benjamin, George, Lula, Robert, Sally, Edgar, Bass Jr., Harriet, Homer and Alice. The Lone Ranger, Tonto, and his silver stallion from the 1950s TV series, 9 iconic Black soldiers who risked it all to fight for America. Next, Bass took a job as a patrolman with the Muskogee, Oklahoma Police Department. Dozier eluded Reeves for several months until the lawman tracked him down in the Cherokee Nation. At . Marshal Bass Reeves in 1900. His record of 3,000 arrests dwarfs the arrest records of better known Old West lawmen such as Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, and Wild Bill Hickok. Bass Reeves grew up illiterate and remained illiterate for his entire life. He was a skilled fighter and made a living as a fur trader in the old American West. He arrested over 3,000 criminals and was never wounded while doing so. After being freed in 1863, he married a woman named Nellie Jennie and started a large family. He always bore a very good reputation and I never know of him doing anything wrong until he got into the trouble which caused his commitment to the penitentiary. Refining his skills as an outdoorsman, Bass became an expert sharpshooter. The lengthy and glowing obituary for this universally respected man described him as absolutely fearless and knowing no master but duty., Over the 35 years that Bass Reeves served as a Deputy United States Marshal, he earned his place in history by being one of the most effective lawmen in Indian Territory, bringing in more than 3,000 outlaws and helping to tame the lawless territory. After the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, Reeves, now free, moved to Van Buren, He died in 1910 from nephritis. Try again later. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. There was an error deleting this problem. Photos larger than 8Mb will be reduced. The TSHA makes every effort to conform to the principles of fair use and to comply with copyright law. Continuing with this request will add an alert to the cemetery page and any new volunteers will have the opportunity to fulfill your request. Below is an article about Reeves from Matt Helm first published in blackpast.org. When William S. Reeves died, his son George made Bass Reeves his personal companion and servant. Later Reeves moved to Arkansas and farmed near Van Buren. Nats father passed away when he was about 15 years old. And in some ways, Reeves real life was even more incredible than the fictional character he potentially inspired. But according to biographer Art T. Burton, Bass Reeves is the closest real person to resemble the fictional Lone Ranger on the American western frontier of the nineteenth century.. His son was tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison, but was later given a full pardon. His wife, Nellie Jennie Reeves, tries to persuade Bass not to leave for his own safety, but Bass argues that it's the best job he can get to keep a roof over his family's head. In 1875, Isaac C. Parker was appointed federal judge of Indian Territory. He married Nellie Jennie, a woman from Texas, in 1864, and they had 10 children. Enter a grandparent's name. By clicking Sign Up, you agree to our West Publishing Company, 1908. As the story goes, Reeves beat up his master after a dispute over cards and then fled to avoid punishment. The rest of the gang disbanded and were never heard from again. https://www.tshaonline.org, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/reeves-bass. portalId: 20973928, He was known for his politeness and courteous manner. By several accounts, Reeves served as a guide for U.S. marshals going into the Indian Territory. After 1907 the role and the duties of the United States deputy marshal as a primary law-enforcement officer were assumed by state agencies. Then, he would often distract outlaws with a clever gimmick, asking them to read the warrant or some other letter for him. Reeves is the first Black deputy US marshal to receive a commission west of the Mississippi river. Marshal Leo Bennett in Muskogee, Oklahoma, he was given some bad news. There is no announced release date for "1883: The Bass Reeves Story" yet, but we'll keep you updated. Nellie Reeves (Jennie) Also Known As: ""Nellie Jennie"" Birthdate: estimated between 1814 and 1874 : Birthplace: Texas, United States: Death: Immediate Family: Wife of . As manager of this memorial you can add or update the memorial using the Edit button below. You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. Federal Judge of Indian Territory criminals and was never wounded while doing so assumed state... 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