STATE OF TENNESSEE
                       DEPARTMENT OF
                 LIBRARY, ARCHIVES AND HISTORY
                           NASHVILLE
JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE
       DIRECTOR
                                 July 8th, 1921.

Mr. C. K. Hill,
Harriman, Tennessee.

My dear sir:

                I am in receipt of your letter
of June 28th, asking if I can assist you in
finding the names of the parents of James Reese
of Jefferson County.
                I have very little genealogical
data in this department though I am collecting
all I am able to secure for just such purposes as
your letters requires.  I have had for months an
order at a second-hand book store for a copy of
Godspeed’s History of the East Tennessee counties,
including Jefferson and Washington, Greene, ets.,
but have not yet received them.  At present I have
no data of these counties and can find nothing of
assistance to you in Knox County History.
                I regret so much that I cannot
help you, but I will have my secretary make a note
of it and if anything comes to light on the subject
I will forward you the information.
                David Reese of North Carolina spelled
his name as you do and he was one of the signers of
Mecklenburg Declaration.  The two states being sister
states and so many of our early settlers came from there
it might be worth your while to investigate the name
in that State.  There is in Hale’s History of Tennessee
a short sketch of Dr. Oregon W. Reese, Bransford,
Tennessee, born 1856, son of William J. Reese, Macon
County, Tennessee, grandson of Jacob Silas Reese of
North Carolina.  There was also a Captain Ed Reese of
Nashville, in the Confederate army.  You will know if
these are family names.
               Wishing you success in your research I am,
                            Sincerely,
                               J.T. Moore
                                    Director.





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