Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Reynolds, O. M. 1854 - living in 1893 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 15, 2004, 1:59 pm Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) O. M. REYNOLDS, a prominent citizen of Calhoun county, was born in Talladega county in 1854. He is a son of Walker and Hannah E. Reynolds, was reared on the plantation, received a common school education and then attended the Virginia Military institute at Lexington, Va., entering in 1869 and graduating in 1873, standing fifth in a class of fifty-three. His father having died while he was in college, he at once, upon graduating, returned to the old homestead and engaged in planting, and assisting his mother in setting up the affairs of the estate. He remained on the plantation until his mother's death in October, 1890. He then removed to Anniston in Calhoun county, Ala., widely known as the Model City. In 1879 he was married in Frankfort, Ky., to Miss Eliza Talbot Smith (daughter of Col. E. R. and Margaret E. Dudley Smith, who was one of the most popular and charming of the then reigning "Blue Grass Belles" of Kentucky. To this marriage there have been born four children, viz.: Randolph; Margaret D.; Walker and Hannah E. Both she and her husband are members of the Baptist church. In 1882 he was elected by the democratic party to the legislature from Talladega county and served one term of two years in the same, but having accepted only as a matter of public duty, he declined to stand for election to a second term. Additional Comments: from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 615 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb