GEORGE REYNOLDS
ca1750-1813
by Mary Dabney Moss (Mrs. Harry) Brady

The earliest know ancestor of George Reynolds was Christopher Reynolds, 
who was born about 1530 in County Kent, England.  It is not known whom 
he married, but he settled in London where he and his sons engaged in 
trade and commerce.

Another Christopher Reynolds of a later generation was born about 1611 in
Gravesend, England, and became the first of his family to immigrate to the
Colonies. He married Elizabeth ----.  They arrived in Warwick, Co., Virginia 
in 1622 about the "Francis and John" and settled there on 450 acres, patent 
to which was made September 15, 1636.

George Reynolds, subject of this sketch, was of still a later generation, 
the son of James and Sukie Lindsay Reynolds.  He was born about 1750 in 
Carolina Co., or Henry Co., Virginia and died in 1813 in Williamson County, 
Tennessee.

In October 1779, he was app9ointed a Lieutenant in the Virginia State Line.

He married, June 12, 1770, Susannah Lansford, daughter of Henry and Catherine 
Lansford, and settled in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia, then in Rockingham Co.,
N.C., and finally in Williamson County, Tennessee.

Children were Elizabeth, born 1780; Jency born 178-, Nancy born December 11,
1781, Mary, Sallie, Bethenia, who married in August, 1817 Walter C. Haley,
George, who died young, Thomas and Richard, born 1790.

The only member of the Jacob Flournoy Chapter who is descended from George 
Reynolds is Mrs. Harry Brady.

Taken from the Fulton Dailey Leader, Fulton, Kentucky, October 24, 1975