Welcome, Arvel & Gene Reese Family!

Grandma and Grandpa Reese.

Welcome to the Reese family blog. This will be a place for the 150-plus descendants of Arvel Charles and Gene Heninger Reese to learn and share information about our ancestors — and our living relatives.

Let's start with a little quiz to see how much you know about our Reese heritage.

Grandpa's heritage

1. What was the name of the ship on which the Reese family traveled to America?

Underwriter

2. How many daughters did Charles and Sarah Reese have?

No daughters. They had 12 sons, seven who lived to adulthood.

3. What was Grandpa's mother's name? What name did she go by?

Karen Andrea Andersen, known as Carrie

4. How many children did W.G. have when he married Carrie? How many children did they have together?

Five and eight

5. Where was Grandpa born?

Benson

6. How old was Grandpa when his father left on a mission to Australia?

Six weeks

7. What year was the house in Benson built?

1912

8. Where did Grandpa start school?

Riverside School across the street

Grandma's heritage

1. Whose company did Matt Fifield cross the plains with? Why weren't his parents with him?

Brigham Young's second company; his mother had died and his father was in the Mormon Battalion

2. What was Naomi Fifield's claim to fame?

First child of European descent born in the Bear River Valley

3. What plant is Matt Fifield infamous for introducing to Weston, Idaho?

Field bindweed!

4. Where is the Heninger ancestral home?

Burkes Garden, Va.

5. Where did Grandma fall in the birth order in her family?

Youngest of 10

6. Where was she born?

Millville

7. Where did she meet Grandpa?

In an English class at "the A.C."

8. What were some of Grandma's favorite activities?

Reading, playing the piano, playing with dolls, dancing

Grandma and Grandpa

1. How many of Grandma and Grandpa's ancestors came to Utah between 1847 and 1869?

Nine (Matthew Phelps Fifield, Levi Joseph Fifield, 1838; Warner Hoopes, Priscilla Gifford, Rebecca Ann Hoopes, 1859; Charles Reese, Sarah Griffiths, William Griffiths Reese, 1861; Jacob Andersen Ploughman, 1866)

2. Which direction does the house in Benson face?

South

3. What was the structure next to the house called?

The shanty

4. How many swings were in the front yard? What were they made of?

Two tire swings

5. Name one of Grandpa's horses.

Elf

6. How many legs did Miko have?

Three

7. Where did Grandpa keep candy?

In pockets of his overalls and behind the backseat of the truck

8. How did Grandma summon Grandpa for meals?

"Arrrrrrr-VELLLLLLLLL!"

9. How many descendants of Grandma and Grandpa Reese are serving full-time missions for their church as of July 24, 2018? (Name them and their missions for bonus points.)

Six: Elder Jonathan Bunting, Canada Vancouver; Elder Adam Reese Newton, Korea Seoul; Sister Kate Ashman, Virginia Richmond; Sister Tiffany Roe, Utah Salt Lake City South; Elder Noah Kema, California Irvine; Elder Tré Risk, England Manchester