When Martha Minerva Reynolds was born on 3 February 1829, in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, United States, her father, John Wesley Reynolds, was 22 and her mother, Phoebe Jane Ramsey, was 16. She married Lewis Dunbar Wilson on 3 February 1846, in Nauvoo Illinois Temple, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. She lived in Panguitch, Iron, Utah, United States in 1880 and Cannonville, Garfield, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 23 February 1901, in Panguitch, Garfield, Utah, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Panguitch City Cemetery, Panguitch, Garfield, Utah, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
On October 9, 1848, an arsonists fire claimed everything but the outer walls of the Nauvoo Temple since the structure was made out of limestone and wood. It was meant to discourage the Saints that had fled to never come back.
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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