The Reuille name is sometimes spelled ROY even by members of the same family. Several children from the first marriage chose this spelling. The name was also sometimes translated to English as Rust and King in early records.

Joseph Reuille arrived in America in 1847. His three oldest children (first marriage) were born in France. The fourth child, Eugenia, was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1849. By 1851 he was living in the Besancon area (east of New Haven, Indiana)since his son Henry was born there. His wife Francoise died in 1851 and is believed to be buried in the Besancon area.

Children of Francoise Aubon and Joseph Reuille:
Charles b. 1843 d. 1929 mar.1 N. Clevenger mar.2 L Whitaker
James b. 1845 d. 1927 mar. Mary Barbara Lauyer
Julian b. 1847 d. 1888 mar. Mary Gauthier
Eugenia b. 1849 d. 1937 mar. August Beachot
Henry b. 1851 d. 1925 mar. Philomene Dodane
Infant b/d unknown

Children of Catherine Bouvier and Nicholas Martin:
James Lucien b. 1845
Augustus: b. 1848
Charles Francis b. 1850
Melinda b. 1852
Nicholas H. b. 1854 d. 1936 - mar. Eugenie Dodane
Julien August b. 1854 d. 1916 - mar.#1 Louise Huguenard; mar. #2 Marie Theresa Grisez

Children of Catherine Bouvier and Joseph Reuille:
Stephanie b. 1858 d. 1879
Joseph R. b. 1858/59 d. 1879
Francis b. 1862 d. 1906
Louis Simon b. 1864 d. 1902 mar. Elizabeth Pettijohn
Louisa b. 1864 d. 1879
Peter b. 1866 d. 1936 mar. Marie Pauline Lomont

Catherine's second husband, Joseph Reuille, was Catholic and is buried in the old St. Louis Besancon cemetery. Catherine remained a Lutheran through her life and is buried in Emanuel Lutheran Cemetery.

Joseph's first wife died in 1851 and left him with five children under the age of eight years old (another of his children had died in infancy. Catherine became stepmother to those children plus her six children from her first marriage and then together they had six more children.