Posts Tagged ‘Reynolds’
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Lois Margaret Schillinger was born in Moline, Illinois in 1901 to Albert Jerome Schillinger and Margaret Conley. She was the second child and only daughter of four children born to her parents. At a young age, Lois became involved with a young man named Luke P. Young who played in a band. They married before […]
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Clarence Roland Gittings was born in LaHarpe, Hancock County, Illinois to James Gittings and Susannah Thompson. He was the oldest of three children born to his parents. His father had been married once before he married Charles’ mother. His parents moved from Ohio to LaHarpe in 1836. When Clarence grew to adulthood he purchased 200 […]
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Hartson Jerome Fitzgerald was born in 1860 in Missouri. In 1885 he married Mary Watrous Reynolds. Mary was the daughter of William Reynolds, who was brother of our direct ancestor Mary June Reynolds Watrous. Thus, Mary Reynolds Fitzgerald was the niece of Mary June Reynolds Watrous. It is not known why the younger Mary had […]
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Lydia is such a pretty name. In fact we have a granddaughter named Lydia. The same age as Lydia Viola was when she died of cholera at the age of four. Lydia was the oldest child of Jerome Timothy and Mary June Reynolds Watrous. She was born in the tiny farming community of Terre Haute […]
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Direct ancestor William Painter was possibly born in New Jersey and died in Pennsylvania. From 1780 through 1783, William served in the Revolutionary War. He served in the company of Capt. William Smith, 6th Battalion, Chester County Militia. After he returned from three years of service, he married Martha Torton in 1784 in the Second […]
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Mary June Reynolds was born in Pennsylvania to Henry Reynolds and Sarah Painter. She was the seventh of eleven children born to her parents. Her father Henry was a Quaker. He baptized his daughter Mary June. Her mother was an Episcopalian. When she was still young, her parents migrated from Pennsylvania to Illinois and settled […]
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During our search for ancestral faces, we received a copy of this photograph which was taken in the 1800s. We hoped it was a photograph of ancestors Jerome and Mary Watrous from Terre Haute in Henderson County, Illinois. However, we have not been able to identify those in the photograph. Having never seen the face […]
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This is the obituary for direct ancestor Henry Reynolds which was carried in the Nauvoo Independent as a reprint in 1973. Henry married Sarah Painter. They became the parents of direct ancestor Mary June Reynolds who married Jerome Timothy Watrous. A summary of the life of Henry Reynolds is on this site.
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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 […]
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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 […]