Reeves Chapel

The Camp County TXGenWeb page for Reeves Chapel, compiled by C. M. Wright in 2002, says the founders arrived as early as 1858 and that Counce and Salina Bailey Reeves formally donated the land in the late 1860s. The earliest burial Wright found is from 1865. About a thousand acres once belonged to the Reeves and Bailey families, and descendants say Agrippa Reeves and Elijah Josephus Bailey, who died in 1866, lie on former family land nearby. The county site lists a separate Black section, Strickland, with thirteen names read from stones.

What the plaque says

Reeves Chapel When a migrant worker died in 1879, there was no cemetery in this community. Counce Reeves, a Civil War veteran who had come from Hamilton County, Georgia, and his wife Selina gave two acres at this site for a church and burial ground. The Rev. D. Dane of Jefferson led in organizing the Reeves Chapel Methodist Church. The congregation erected a brush arbor and in the fall of 1879 constructed a frame meetinghouse. Later Reeves deeded an additional two acres. After the fellowship grew, members initiated efforts to erect a larger building in 1907. (1979)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lake Bob Sandlin State Park — 7.8 mi
  A 1987 state park on a 9,000-acre reservoir, where a Republic of Texas stockade called Fort Sherman stood in 1838 and the Caddo lived from A.D. 800 to 1860, now with fishing piers, trails and cabins.
• Daingerfield State Park — 19 mi
  A pine-and-hardwood park built in 1935-39 by a white and a Black Civilian Conservation Corps company, with a dammed lake, Bass Lodge and a 2.4-mile loop trail around the water.
• Governor Hogg Shrine — 28 mi
  Quitman's 27-acre city park, once a state historical park, where two houses tied to James Stephen Hogg's marriage stand beside an arboretum, a nature walk and the grounds of the Old Settlers Reunion.

More markers nearby

• New Mine Baptist Church — 0.9 mi
• The Ezekiel Airship — 3.7 mi
• Pittsburg — 3.8 mi
• Pitts Family Cemetery — 3.9 mi