Reeve Family Tree

This house began as a one room log cabin. The logs remained inside the walls of one of the bedrooms. The original house was built between 1824-1829. The house built around the log cabin had the traditional breezeway between two large rooms. The house was built out of heart pine. The breezeway was later enclosed and remodeled by Royce Leon Halle, great grand son of William "Elijah" Bishop. The house then had three high ceiling, large rooms across the front including two large bedrooms and a large living room. The back of the house had lower ceiling rooms which included a bedroom, bathroom, dinning room and a combination kitchen, breakfast room and laundry room. The house had a porch across the front and a screened in porch on the side. With the tin roof, sleeping was no problem on rainy nights. The original external kitchen was torn down and the wide board lumber of heart pine was used to build another smaller home on a hill above this house, originally occupied by Royce Halle and his family before he moved into the old family home to care for his parents. According to the Simpson County News, the original house was the oldest house in the area at the time it was destroyed by fire in 1986. The original log cabin is believed to have been built by William Elijah Bishop, later occupied by James Norval Bishop's family, his daughter Colah Alice Bishop and her husband, Howard Halle, their son, Royce Leon Halle's family and Royce's, granddaughter. The property surrounding the old home place is still owned by descendents of Elijah Bishop. The property surrounding the home had a large three story barn and numerous external buildings over the years. Nothing remains of any of these structures. Members of the Bishop and Halle famlies who were honored to grow up there have fond memories of long southern nights swings and rocking on the front porch and catching lighting bugs. Written by William Elijah's great great granddaughters.