Meriwether County GaArchives Biographies.....J.B. Reynolds  1843 -  Unknown
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Author: Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 1895

Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895
Pages 520-521

J. B. Reynolds

J. B. Reynolds, one of the successful agriculturists of Meriwether county, is 
a native of South Carolina, born in Edgefield district in 1843.  His father, 
Wiley Reynolds, was a son of Thomas and Nancy (Harris) Reynolds; and his 
mother, Dolly (Burton) Reynolds, was the daughter of Nathaniel and Susan 
(Aswell) Burton, all South Carolinians by birth.  In 1846, when the boy, J.B. 
Reynolds, was but three years old, his parents came to Georgia and settled on 
a farm in Meriwether county, where he was reared, and received such school 
privileges as were afforded in the little log school house of the district.  
He enlisted in 1862, joining Company F of the Fifty-fifth regiment, under 
Capt. Henry Baker.  Although he served faithfully to the end of the war he had 
the singular good fortune not only to escape being wounded or captured, but 
even to escape being in battle.  Upon his return from the war Mr. Reynolds 
received from his father eight hundred acres of land, on which to make his 
home, and this, well improved, and added to, has been the foundation of the 
competence which he now possesses.  In 1864 Mr. Reynolds married Miss Amanda 
Glisson, a native of Crawford county, born in 1849.  She is the daughter of 
Brinkley and Amy (Riglan) Glisson, natives of this state; her father served 
both in the Indian war of 1836, and in the Mexican war.  Both Mr. Reynolds and 
his wife are members of the Missionary Baptist church.  They have six 
children: Anna, Dida, Henry W., J. B., Lillie and Emmett.



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