Charles Reynolds Fitzgerald 1888-1977
2010
Charles Reynolds Fitzgerald was born in Muscatine, Iowa in 1888 to Hartson Jerome Fitzgerald and Mary Reynolds. His mother Mary was the first cousin of our ancestor Henry Reynolds Watrous. Charles was the oldest of three children born to his parents. Charles’ father was known as Hart Fitzgerald. He was an attorney who specialized in issues of mining. The family of Hartson Fitzgerald and Mary Reynolds migrated to Utah after 1911 but before 1920. Hartson was likely involved with our ancestors in the Watrous family who incorporated their mining efforts into The Cottonwood Metals Mining Company in 1916 but worked it long before that time.
When Charles retired, he held the rank of Colonel in the United States Army. He served in both World War I and World War II. He married twice and both wives are buried with him. They were Bertha Crawshaw, who died in 1931 and Mary Alice Householder whom he married in 1962. We do not know the marriage date for Charles and Bertha. Charles did not have any children.
Buried in the same plot in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah with Charles Bertha and Mary Alice are Charles’ parents Hartson Jerome Fitzgerald, his mother Mary Reynolds and his sister Marie Isabel. Marie Isabel Fitzgerald died in 1985 in Washington State. His brother Thomas died in Florida in 1973. The remains of Charles’ mother and sister were both cremated but were buried in full burial plots.
The migration of Charles Reynolds Fitzgerald
Iowa to Illinois to Utah