Biography:Marion Reece

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Marion Reece


     
 Given name:     William
 Middle name:     Marion
 Family name:     Reece
 Place of birth:     
 Place of death:     Zionville, Watauga County, western North Carolina
 Year of birth:     1874
 Year of death:     1939
 Profile:     Musician
 Source of information:     
     

Biographical notes


From Joe Wilson: he played the older Watauga County repertoire very well according to the older fiddlers of the area. His home and shop was north of Boone, a few miles from the state line with Johnson County, Tenn. He was not a young man when recorded. He can be found in census records if his age is important to you. He was also a fifer and performed on an instrument his father or grandfather brought home from the Civil War. (The "Mountain Yankee" 13th Tenn. Cavalry and 4th Tenn. Infantry units were raised nearby and the Reece family was largely supporters of the Union.) It is 99 percent likely he was a descendant of Valentine Reece, who came to this western side of the Blue Ridge from Germany before the American Revolution with his wife Christina Harmon (Harmann).