Reece/Reese Ancestors: Ohio River Valley / PA / W Virginia

I hope to stir some discussion concerning Reese/Reece Ancestors from this area.

Location wise, specifically I have had Ancestors in the areas of the Ohio river valley in the north eastern region of Youngstown, Ohio (close to the PA state line) and south, downward to Parkersburg W Va and in-between. Many Reece/Reese families lived in and migrated through this region. I have 2 GGreat and GGGreat Grandfathers who are elusive mysteries to not only me but also other Reese/Reece  descendants who have Geneagloy siteTrees across the net. Two of my Great Grandfathers, both Reeces' are buried on opposite sides of the Ohio river. One in the Willow Island Babtist Church Cemetary in W Va directly across the Ohio river from another cemetery on the Ohio side which contains my 3rd Great Grandfather. Mysteriously mentioned in an old family account are these individuals "my now brickwall Grandfathers." This old family account provides the only clues I have as evidence of these paternal grandfathers. My 4th GGrandfather was a William Rees(c)e and he and who his father are my brick wall mystery people yet unfounded/unverified.

To quote from my family account: 

According to family members, "Henry's Father William is said to have died by a log falling on him while building a log home. After which his wife (whose name was not remembered in the account) took then young 4yr old Henry Reece and they went back eastward to her family in or around Youngstown in Ohio. It came about when William Reece and wife had left Youngstown, Ohio abt 1808-1810 to go south to Reece family in Parkersburg, W Va (basically along the Ohio River border of Ohio and W Va) but decided to stop along the way and build a log cabin in the vicinity of the upper eastern end of Washington County, Ohio. This is when the death of William occured. Then area ancestors of Edward Sheets of Marritta in Wash. County Ohio, remembers that in the same area, his ancestors reportedly took body of William Reece and buried in a Sheet's family plot just across from the mouth of "Cow Creek". The ancestors of an Sheets Family of the area who also lived at the time in Washington County Ohio across the mouth of Cow Creek, and they took my GGG Grandfather William Reece's body and buried him in their private burial plot on the Ohio side of the river directly across the mouth of Cow Creek is Willow Island Baptist Church Cemetery , W Va, where my Great Grandfather William Lewis Reece is buried. So then after  my GGG Grandfather William Reece's widow took their son Henry and "went back to her people".

To get a perspective of this lineage leading to my mystery 2nd/3rd/4th Great Grandfathers, here it is beginning with: an unknown Mystery 4th G Grandfather ____ Reece who had:

William Reese b. abt 1775 Ohio or Parkersburg,West Virginia, USA ?Wood County
>his son Henry Reece b. abt 1810 Parkersburg, W. Virginia, USA Wood County
>his son William Lewis Reece b. abt 1833 Parkersburg, W. Virginia, USA Wood County
>his son (my Grandfather)Joseph Gideon Reese b. abt 1885 Parkersburg, W. Virginia, USA

It should be duly noted here that: It is apparent just by reviewing most Reece/Reese family trees and doing relative searches that many who have William Lewis Reece and his father Henry  Reece in their family line are stumped at this juncture concerning Henry's father and grandfather William! Most everyone’s family tree stops with ‘Henry's . It is my family account which specifically names Henry's Father as a William and I do not know if that was a first or middle name. I have yet to find sources to verify this William who would have been born about 1775-1785  or who his father was. 

 For all of us who share these Grandparents – I know a bunch of us have been shaking our heads for all the brick walls we have encountered at every turn concerning these Grandparents!

Let me know if you are in the same boat with me - I would like to hear from you. Maybe together we can solve this. If you have this already sorted and sourced out, I definitely would sure like to hear from you! As you know even the tiniest detail can sometimes be a pivotal clue! Attached one of the the actual Family account pages I am working from.