Clay County Obituaries

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John Warwick Reynolds

John Warwick Reynolds, d: Feb. 10, 1883; gr-gr-grandfather of Lois Borton Werline

From the Liberty Tribune:

John W. Reynolds, born in Kentucky on the 26th of November, 1805 and came to Clay county with his father, James Reynolds, in the Spring of 1820. He was of Virginia stock. He was twice married and left, surviving him, 7 children, five by his first and 2 by his second wife. The latter also survives him. member of Little Shoal Old Baptist Church. Buried in the graveyard at that church beside his first wife. Mr. Reynolds left a comfortable estate. In 1821, boy though he was, in going on an errand for his father, rifle in hand, alone and unaided, he killed a large bear on the hills south of Michael Arthur's old home place which stood five miles southwest of Liberty.

His second wife was Emily (Milam) Crow Reynolds and his children were Mary Frances Reynolds, wife of William A. Reynolds, Yerby Reynolds, James E. Reynolds, Anna Katherine Peters, Jonas Reynolds, Thomas Reynolds and Louisiana Clark.

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