Obituary of Clarence J. Reynolds

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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003
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Clarence J. Reynolds 
Bath County News Out-Look Thursday, May 9, 1940 
Clarence Reynolds Suicide Victim 
Owingsville Man Uses Dynamite To Take Own Life 
   J. Reynolds, 45 years old, member of a prominent And widely connected 
Bath county family and for 15 years an employee of the state road 
department, took his own life shortly before noon last Saturday, May 4, 
by exploding two sticks of dynamite which he placed under his body on 
the roadside. 
   According to available information and testimony brought out by 
Coroner George C. Eastin of Mt. Sterling, Reynolds drove his car to 
a point on the Van Thompson Pike about half way between Stoops and 
Judy in Montgomery county, parked the machine on the edge of the road 
and after getting out of the car, placed two sticks of dynamite fitted 
with caps and fuses on the ground, laid down across the explosive and 
lighted the fuses with a match. 
   The explosion tore the torso to shreds, the coroner reported, and 
scattered the head, legs and arms over the area for a distance of some 
300 feet. 
   There was no note of explanation left by the dead man and no reason 
is known by his relatives and friends for his act.  The coroner said 
after the inquest that there was no reason to believe Mr. Reynolds' 
death was accidental or that any other person was responsible.  He 
gave his verdict as suicide. 
   A native of this county, Mr. Reynolds was a son of Mr. Martha R. 
Reynolds of Owingsville and the late Jonas Reynolds.  Besides his 
mother, he is survived by his wife, Mrs. Nettie Foley Reynolds; a 
son, Clarence Reynolds, Jr.; two sisters, Mrs. Walter Quisenbery 
and Mrs. T. L. Jones, of Montgomery county, and six brothers, Allie 
and Talmage Reynolds, of Montgomery county, and Virgil, Fred, Walter 
and Clay Reynolds, of Bath county. 
   Mr. Reynolds was a World War veteran, a member of Bath Post No. 12, 
American Legion and the Christian church. 
   Funeral services were held at the Grave in Owingsville Cemetery S
unday afternoon, May 5, at 4:30 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. George 
C. Frey, pastor of the Owingsville Christian church.