Ascension County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Reynolds, Abraham J. - November 24, 1912
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source: The Donaldsonville Chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current,
November 30, 1912, Image 5


Death of A. J. Reynolds. - The Chief records with sincere regret the sad 
intelligence that A. J. Reynolds, a well-known citizen of Plaquemine, and 
for years an equally well-known resident of Donaldsonville prior to his 
removal to the Iberville town, died suddenly at his home last Sunday 
evening. He had been confined to the house about two weeks with an attack of 
pleurisy and was for a time threatened with pneumonia, but seemed to have 
passed the crisis safely and to be on the road to recovery. Sitting in a 
chair, at 8 o'clock, conversing with his wife, he was seized with heart 
failure and died in a few seconds.

"Aby" Reynolds, as his friends here were wont to call him, was connected 
with The Chief for a number of years, coming here from his native town of 
St. Francisville in the late seventies or early eighties, and made many 
friends among our people by his genial manners and warm-hearted nature. He 
was a good printer, a writer of ability and great fluency, both in rhyme and 
prose, and took much interest in a quiet way in public affairs and political 
questions. In later years, after he had taken up his residence in 
Plaquemine, he returned temporarily to Donaldsonville to do editorial and 
mechaniccal work on The Daily Times, and still later on The Progress, but he 
maintained his domicile in Plaquemine, where his wife and children resided. 
A host of his friends and acquaitances in this town and parish will join us 
in this expression of sorrow at his passing away and in tendering to his 
bereaved family heartfelt condolence and sympathy.

From the Daily Champion of Tuesday we reproduce the following brief sketch 
of its deceased editor's career:

"Abraham J. Reynolds was born sixty-one years, eleven months and seven days 
ago, in Bayou Sara, where he spent his boyhood days and where he first 
embarked into the journalistic field. He always showed himself industrious 
and conscientious in his work, and had been in Plaquemine and in this 
section of the state for about forty years. When he first came down this way 
he was for a long time employed by the Donaldsonville Chief. Afterward he 
was for a number of years connected with the Iberville South as editor and 
manager. Following the purchase of that paper by Sherif Browne, Judge 
Schwing, and the late Louis Lozano, the deceased became interested in the 
Daily Journal, which was published for many years in this town. Since that 
time and before the establishment of the Daily Champion, Mr. Reynolds was 
connected with several newspapers in one capacity or another, always doing 
his level best to promote the interest of the papers with which he was 
connected. At one time he was associated with the Donaldsonville Times and 
Progress, at another with the White Castilian, still another with a bright 
little paper published for a while here called the Enterprise. Once, too, he 
was employed on a newspaper in New Iberia, but as soon as the opportunity 
presented itself he associated himself with a paper here, where his family 
resides. In fact, during the whole of his life, Mr. Reynolds had been 
connected with the newspaper business, and was a clean and easy writer as 
well as a good printer and publisher, being familiar with every phase of the 
business.

"Not only as a newspaper man was the deceased known throughout the state, 
but as a composer of songs he was also well known, and many of his songs 
have attained a high degree of popularity.

"A wife, one daughter, Myrtle, and two sons, Buford and A. J., Jr., survive 
him; also a sister, Mrs. T. T, Lawson of Bayou Sara, La. Two years ago Mr. 
Reynolds lost a sister, Mrs. McPherson of Bayou Sara, who died in just the 
same manner as he did. Mr. Reynolds was a good husband and father and was 
always most zealous in trying to do what was right by his fellow men. His 
familiar figure about this office will be sadly missed, but his association, 
his kind-heartedness, and his fair-mindedness will forever be remembered and 
cherished by those with whom he labored. He was a good man, a good citizen, 
and died like a good soldier. May his soul rest in peace."


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