James Richard Reynolds

Brief Life History of James Richard

When James Richard Reynolds was born in September 1853, in Boyer Township, Harrison, Iowa, United States, his father, John Houston Reynolds, was 32 and his mother, Martha Patsy Smith, was 31. He married Mary Malinda Hunt on 30 December 1875, in Harrison, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 18 June 1911, in Woodbine, Harrison, Iowa, United States, at the age of 57.

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James Richard Reynolds
1853–1911
Mary Malinda Hunt
1857–1946
Marriage: 30 December 1875
Alpha Arthur Edwin Reynolds
1877–1962
Maggie Reynolds
1879–1965

Sources (13)

  • James Reynola in household of Arthur Reynola, "United States Census, 1910"
  • James R. Reynolds, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
  • James R Reynolds, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"

World Events (8)

1856

Historical Boundaries: 1856: Harrison, Iowa, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Reynold , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.

Irish (Leitrim): in Ulster the English name in 1 above was substituted for Mac Raghnaill; see McReynolds .

History: Christopher Reynolds of Gravesend, Kent, England, arrived in America sometime before his marriage in 1644 in Isle of Wight County, VA.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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