Brief Life History of John Carter
When John Carter Reynolds was born on 16 April 1868, in Terre Haute, Sullivan, Indiana, United States, his father, Commodore Perry Reynolds, was 39 and his mother, Frances Ann Hall, was 29. He married Eva Bell McCarty on 1 April 1888, in Rose Hill, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Crooked Creek Township, Jasper, Illinois, United States for about 20 years and Rose Hill, Jasper, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. He died on 15 August 1957, in Decatur, Macon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Graceland Cemetery, Decatur, Macon, Illinois, United States.
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- John Renolds in household of C P Renolds, "United States Census, 1870"
- John C. Reynolds, "Illinois Marriages, 1815-1935"
- John C Reynolds, "Find a Grave Index"
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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.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
1892 · The Chicago Canal
The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.
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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