...Samantha Ann was the fourth born child to the union of
Joseph Allen Reaves 1834-1923
Samantha Caldonia Johnson 1853-1931

her father was a farmer and Church of Christ circuit preacher and her mother known as DONIA was a midwife....his second wife.....
Samantha's siblings were

Sarah Adaline ADDIE 1872-1875
Joseph Jasper 1874-1935
James Allen 1875-1959
George Serbier SERBER 1878-1897
Mary Irene RENA 1878-1975
Samuel Marion 1880-1920
Amanda Virginia JENNY 1882-1960
Kendrick Elizabeth 1884-1974
John Franklin JOHNNY 1887-1965
JULIA Agnes 1890-1981
STELLA Lee 1892-1980
Artie May LILLIE Belle 1894-1971

....She spent her growing up years in the community of Crush in Milam County Texas and married James Albert Norris July 30, 1899 in Comanche County, Texas with hundreds of relatives present...her daddy performed the ceremony for the couple. They spent their married years farming in Denton, Milam and Eastland Counties Texas before moving to Houston, Harris, Texas about 1937 and eventually living in a house Jim built on Julia Street, a still rural area at the time, behind the present day Northline Mall near Interstate 45 North and South and Crosstimbers Exit....

...Samantha and Jim were the parents of 10 children who for the most part all lived into their late 80s and 90s....with Carlton living to almost 100...

CLAUDE Addison 1900-1987
ALBERT Lee 1902-1992
ELSIE Mae 1904-1992
Raymon Earl 1905-1905
Clara LEONA 1907-1981
CARLTON Roy 1909-2007
FLOYD Allen 1912-2001
DONALD Vernon 1913-1985
MARION Franklin 1916-1998
RUBY Helen 1918-1985

....Samantha Ann's Reaves relatives were descended from Cynthia Ann Parker, daughter of Elder John Parker...Cynthia Ann being the mother of the last great Comanche Chief , Quanah Parker...

...I remember my paternal great grandmother, Grandmother Norris ...very well...I could almost see her eye - to -eye....she was short like me....! She was a loving greatgrandmother, grandmother, wife, sister and friend....PaulaNorrisPierce, HoustonTX..."rest in peace sweet lady....."