Like a few of Bass Reeves' sons, Edgar or Ed lived a sometimes troubled and violent life. In 1895, he was convicted of perjury and sent to the Arkansas State Penitentiary at Little Rock for a year. In 1899, Ed was apparently working in a Muskogee hotel, when he cut the throat of his girlfriend Emma Littlejohn in a jealous rage and fled, but he was soon captured by Ft. Smith police and placed in the Sebastian County Jail. Ed reportedly plead insanity, but he was convicted and sent back to the Arkansas Pen. It is not known if Littlejohn survived. It's interesting to note that the 1900 U.S. Census for the Sebastion County prison has an Edgar Reeves with his father's birthplace given as TEXAS. This may corroborate Richard D. Fronterhouse's 1959 interview of Bass' daughter Alice Reeves Spahn and other documents.

After Ed got out of prison, he may have married Angie Craig on Nov. 23, 1897 in Fort Smith. Source: Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957.

Edgar Reeves possibly did not serve long for attempted murder because by 1906 an Edd Reeves was listed in the 1906 Muskogee City Directory as working at a hotel and boarding
at 206 South Sixth.

On Jan. 20, 1910, the Muskogee Times Democrat, stated that Edgar had gone to his recently deceased father's home. Against his stepmother Winnie's wishes, he took his father's guns, then went out to the barn, saddled his father's horse and rode off. Edgar later went to Henry Van Doozen and sold the horse to him for $9 and informed him that he was going to Kansas. Van Doozen thought this statement was suspicious, so he called Muskogee Police Chief and Bass' friend Bud Ledbetter on the event and turned over the horse. Winnie also reported the theft to the police. It is not known if Edgar or the guns ever returned home.

Edgar was living in Independence, Kansas in 1913, when his father's will was probated.

"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.