Robert "Bob" Reeves served as a guard for his father U.S. Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves on trips to the Indian Territory. In 1885 near Eufala, Indian Territory, a prisoner grabbed the jail wagon driver's pistol, jumped out of the conveyance and fired at the fleeing driver. The prisoner, then threatened Bob Reeves with an ax. Later, on Bass Reeves' recapturing him, the prisoner tried to shoot him three times, then severely pistol-whipped the deputy marshal with the non-firing weapon before he could be subdued. As a brakeman on the Central Arkansas and Houston Railway, Bob was killed in Varna while coupling two cars. The July 22, 1893 Van Buren Press Argus reported that he was married with two small children.

Robert Reeves wed Mary Lacy on Mar. 30, 1888. Source: Crawford Co. Ark. Marriage Record.

Robert Reeves is supposedly buried in the Greenhill Cemetery in Muskogee with his youngest brothers Bass Jr. and Homer, but I've seen no evidence. It stands to reason that their father would also be buried in Greenhill, but again the proof is lacking.

"Notice"
Bass Reeves had six documented boys and five documented girls with his first wife that can
be found in the 1870, 1890 and 1900 U.S. Census. Over the years, people apparently outside
of the Bass Reeves Family have added others through confusion, misinformation and little documentation on findagrave (most removed) and other genealogy websites. A case in point, the William Reeves (born 1877 in OK.) attached to Bass and his first has wife by Judy Young has no census or any other known connection to the U.S. deputy marshal.

Children:

Mary Reeves (1889-?) of McAlester, OK.

Rothery Robert (1892-1951) of McAlester, Oklahoma, registered for the draft in 1917, he had a wife and a bad right foot, which probably kept him from serving. Rothery's death certificate states that he was born March 4, 1893 in Van Buren, Arkansas, and that he died Dec. 1, 1952 in Los Angeles, California. He is buried in Evergreen Cemetery.