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Author: kbear507
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I'm afraid you've misunderstood. I don't think Eden and Elias are brothers
but more distant cousins. I've hear that theory about Bethuel possible descending
from Thomas Reeve and Hannah Rowe, but I don't agree. Unless she provided you with
some hard evidence, no one really knows who Bethuel's father was. The naming
patterns in the line she suggest are completely different from the names repeated in
Bethuel's descendants. But I appreciate you trying to help. And if some hard
evidence did exist, I would love to see it. I think eventually, I'll end up trying
the DNA route.
What is interesting is that the name Joel is repeated over and over in Bethuel's line.
Elias also has a Joel, at a time when there are only a handful of Joel Reeves around. It
would be interesting to me to know if Elias if there is any obvious place the name Joel
came from in that line. For instance, Bethuel named a son Joel, his son Rumsey named a
son Joel, and Joel was carried on down to my great grandfather and an uncle.
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