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JOSEPH WATSON REYNOLDS (JUNE 27, 1846-JULY 1, 1929)

JOSEPH WATSON REYNOLDS, SON OF MR. AND MRS. GEORGE M. REYNOLDS, WAS BORN JUNE 27, 1846, IN VINTON COUNTY, OHIO, AND DIED JULY 1, 1929, AGED 83 YEARS AND FOUR DAYS. HE WAS MARRIED TO MARGARET E. BARKER AUGUST 23, 1868, WHO PASSED FROM THIS LIFE APRIL 16, 1906.

TO THIS UNION WAS BORN TEN CHILDREN, SEVEN SONS AND THREE DAUGHTERS. FIVE SONS DIED IN INFANCY, ALSO ONE DAUGHTER, MRS. JENNIE CECIL WHO DIED JUNE 16, 1895. ABOUT FIFTY YEARS AGO HE MOVED FROM LOUISA COUNTY TO RINGGOLD COUNTY, WHICH PLACE HAS BEEN HIS HOME SINCE THAT TIME.

IN OCTOBER, 1912, HE WAS MARRIED TO MRS. LEA SIMPSON, WHO DIED DECEMBER 24, 1919. HE IS SURVIVED BY TWO DAUGHTERS, MRS. E. H. ADAMS OF ST. JOSEPH, MO., AND MRS. J.W. WINNINGS OF CANTON, OHIO, AND TWO SONS, J.L. REYNOLDS OF CARNEGIE, OK., AND CHAS. B. REYNOLDS OF OMAHA, NE., AND ONE SISTER, MRS. GEORGE ATKINSON OF ZALESKI, OHIO, ALSO TWO GRANDDAUGHTERS, ARELENE REYNOLDS OF MINNEAPOLIS, MN. AND CHARLOTT REYNOLDS OF OMAHA, NE.

MR. REYNOLDS WAS VERY WIDELY KNOWN HERE AND HIS PASSING BRINGS TO MIND THE THOUGHT THAT ANOTHER OLD RESIDENT HAS BEEN CALLED.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE METHODIST CHURCH WEDNESDAY AT 2 P.M. INTERMENT WAS MADE IN THE MAPLE ROW CEMETERY.

 

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