This site is brought to you by the Gleaves Family Association and has been put together to help compile information about the Gleaves genealogy, as well as to provide information about upcoming reunions, links to other Gleaves sites, discussion and forums as well as a gallery of Gleaves past and present.

The Gleaves Family Association hopes YOU will be with us in Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia, at our next reunion!  More details to follow after the first of the New Year.

Several people have been diligently working to transcribe our amazing collection of letters with over 20 % of them now complete and searchable.  Story lines are unfolding with the addition of each letter.  There are births, marriages, deaths, disputes over inheritances.  There are fierce political discussions to rival those of today, only with different names.  Times are hard due to droughts, winter storms, low prices and wars. In spite of all these hardships, a prevailing love and affection for the family shines through

Mary Kegley has granted permission to use her map of the Cripple Creek area of Wythe County.  Viewing this map will given you a visual understanding of who the people are and why they continually appear in the documents.  You can find the link to this map at the top of the Letters listing.

Click here to begin following this unfolding drama.

From Owen Gleaves:

This picture came out in the Mt. Juliet News this past week. It shows the First Public School built about 1878 on Juliet Gleaves' property.  Her property at that time was considered the town center.  With the arrival of the railroad, community activities moved about a half mile north to the railroad. We refer to it as moving down to the railroad due to her property being on a hill.

This picture is of the east side of the school and shows the school water well.  The well was an old pump type that you had to pump a lever up and down to get the water. I remember them when I was a child (tells how old I really am). You were lucky to get more than a cup or two from each pump of the lever.  Rufus Page, a friend of ours, had one rigged up in a old galvanized washing tub at his annual Mt. Juliet Home Coming just a few weeks ago.
 
Juliet Gleaves was married to Guy Trigg Gleaves, a son of Absalom Gleaves.  The Gleaves have been around Mt. Juliet a long, long time. No one has ran us out of town yet. Think I will hang around just a few more years.

Family obituaries are now being added to the Family History page.

When you have a new obituary (including those from the past) that you would like added, please use the Contact page to send it to us.

Paula Poll, our cousin who lives in Venice, California, has a new passion...providing a habitat in her garden for the endangered Monarch Butterfly.  To read more about her story and see her photos, click here for the Gleaves Family Pages.

If you have a story and/or photographies that you would like to share with the family, then use the Contact page to let us know about it.

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