When Benjamin Jeremiah Reynolds was born on 30 January 1861, in Whitley, Kentucky, United States, his father, Daniel Reynolds, was 26 and his mother, Matilda Ann Gouge, was 21. He married Nancy Estella Hume on 24 May 1885, in Fremont, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Plattsmouth, Cass, Nebraska, United States for about 20 years and Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States in 1930. He died on 9 April 1936, in Nebraska, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Plattsmouth, Cass, Nebraska, United States.
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Oak Hill Cemetery Photo shows the established year as 1862.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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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