Crawford-Clark County IL Archives Biographies.....Reynolds, Abel 1812 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  ABEL REYNOLDS, carpenter, West York, is a native of Randolph County, N. C.,
born January 4, 1812. His father, Jesse Reynolds, was a farmer, born in the year
1784, in North Carolina. He emigrated to Crawford County, Ill., in 1820, and
there died in 1850. His mother, Wilmety (Lamb) Reynolds, was born in North
Carolina, in 1786, and died in Crawford County in 1848. Of the eleven children
born to them, Abel was the second child. He was raised on a farm, and educated
from the subscription schools of Crawford County. He began farming for himself
at twenty-one years of age, upon rented land. In 1833, he bought his first
land-a small tract of eighty acres, located in the western part of Hutsonville
Township. In 1838, he sold his farm and bought a grist and saw mill at York, in
Clark County. His mill was destroyed by fire in 1851; it contained all of his
wealth, and he was compelled to return to farming upon a rented farm, and after
ten years' of hard work he was able to again buy a small tract of eighty acres
in Clark County. He did not remove to this, however, but sold it, and bought 160
acres located near West York, in Hutsonville Township. He remained upon this
farm until, November, 1882, when he removed to West York and engaged in
carpentering. The trade he had never served an apprenticeship at, but picked up
while working for a carpenter, and has worked at the same in connection with his
farming duties for the past fifteen years. Mr. Reynolds was married in Indiana,
November 11, 1832, to Miss Sarah Cox, a native of Miami County, Ohio, who was
born August 1, 1816. They have been blessed with six children, of whom two are
living, viz.: John and Ruth, both married. Mr. Reynolds and wife are members of
the Quaker Church. He is a Republican.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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