William Beckworth Reeve

My friend Billy Reeve was born William Beckworth Reeve in 1918.  Billy was 15 years old in 1933, only 2 years younger than me.  His father Lewis Herbert (Herb) Reeve homesteaded on SW.14.31.18 beside his longtime friend John Harrison on SE.14.31.18.  Herb and John had arrived together on the Quill Plains from Lipton in 1905 by oxen team and wagon.

In 1912 Herb went on a train trip to Ontario where he met and married Ida Frances Evans and brought her back to the farm.  The Reeve family lived just kitty corner (North East) from the Hatton farm on section 10, and by 1933 they owned all of section 14.  Herb had bought out John's SE quarter section and Herb's brother Thomas (Billy's Uncle), had purchased the north half from Leonard and Eustance Mann which Herb later acquired.

Herb is remembered as the first person to ship a carload of wheat from Wynyard after the CPR rail line was completed in 1909.

Billy and I were good friends as we lived close and later played together in the Fennemore band.  Billy played a trumpet and I struggled with a alta tuba horn.
Billy's younger sister Ida Elizabeth later sang with me in the Dafoe choir.

When my mother died in 1939, Billy's dad Herb volunteered to be a pall-bearer at my mothers funeral at Copeland.  In 1943 Billy married schoolteacher Audrey Chapman and the same year his sister Ida married Reverend Allan Dixon.

I mention the Reeve family 8 times in my diary, working, visiting or traveling together.

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1933 DIARY: January 3, 9, February 19, 27. March 2, 3. April 30. July 22.

Lewis Herbert (Herb) Reeve  1868 - 1947  Ida Frances (nee Evans) Reeve  1912 - 1979