Freestone County, Texas
Biographies 



Biography of Aaron Battaile Rennolds
   (Oct. 4, 1857-Feb. 21, 1931, buried at Mexia city cemetery in Mexia, TX.) 

A History of Central and Western Texas, Volume 2
Lewis Publishing Company, 1911; pages 483-484

   Aaron B. Rennolds - One of the most prominent jurists practicing at the bar
of Mexia is Aaron B. Rennolds, a lawyer of well known ability and the city's 
present mayor. He was born in Grimes county, Texas, October 4, 1857, a son of
William B. and Sallie (Shannon) Reynolds, who were born respectively in Virginia
and in South Carolina, and who were married in Grimes county, Texas. William B.
Rennolds was also a lawyer, practicing in Grimes county before the war. He served
the Confederacy as a Civil war soldier, but on account of failing health he was
obliged to resign from the army and return home. There were but two sons in his 
family, and the death of the younger, William, has left the subject of the review
and his mother the sole survivors of the family.
   Aaron B. Rennolds attended the district schools of Freestone county, Trinity
University at Tehuacana, and was admitted to practice in the District courts, 
September 7, 1898, in the Supreme court of Texas May 6, 1899, in the United States
Circuit court November 16, 1903, and in the United States District court on the
same date. He has served Mexia for several terms as city attorney, has also been 
district deputy county attorney, and is now serving his third term as the city's
mayor. When he first came to Mexia in 1880, he secured employment as a clerk and
later became a member of the mercantile firm of Simmons and Rennolds, but in 
1896 he sold his mercantile interests and has since devoted himself to the 
practice of law. He is also quite extensively engaged in loaning money.
   Mr. Rennolds married a daughter of one of the leading physicians of eastern
Texas in an early day, Miss Emma Means, who was born to Dr. T.L.C. Means in 
Freestone county. The four living children of this union are: Thomas A., in the
employ of the Wells-Fargo Express Company at Dallas; W.B. Leland M. and Emma E.  
The first born child, Etta Earle, died when fourteen years of age. Mr. Rennolds
gives his political allegiance to the Democratic party, and he is a member of the
Presbyterian church at Mexia.