Mary Reynolds Fitzgerald 1865-1958
2010
Mary Reynolds was born in Iowa to William Painter Reynolds and Harriett Chenoweth. She was the fifth of six children born to her parents. She was known as Molly. She was the niece of direct ancestor Mary June Reynolds Watrous and thus the first cousin of ancestor Henry Reynolds Watrous. In 1885 she married Hartson Jerome Fitzgerald who was born in Missouri. They became the parents of three children. They migrated from Iowa to Illinois and on to Utah before 1920. Her husband was an attorney who specialized in the affairs of mining. He worked with his wife’s cousin Henry Reynolds Watrous who was also an attorney. Mary died in California and was cremated. Her remains were sent to Utah where they were buried in a family plot in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Salt Lake City which would eventually hold her, her husband, her son Charles, his two wives and a daughter Marie Isabel. Her third child Thomas died and was buried in Florida.
It is not known if Mary and Hartson had posterity beyond this family group. Charles did not have children and Marie Isabel did not marry or have children. It is not known if Thomas married or had children. When we discovered the burial plot for this family, all grave stones had names and dates engraved except Marie’s stone. Her birth date was engraved but not her death date. That fact would suggest that since she was the last to die, there was no one to see to that task.
The migration of Mary Reynolds Fitzgerald
Iowa to Illinois to Utah to California