CAMPBELL COUNTY, VA - HISTORY - Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches
			Family  Sketches - McReynolds
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                   CAMPBELL CHRONICLES and FAMILY SKETCHES

              Embracing the History of CAMPBELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA
                                  1782-1926
                                By R. H. EARLY
                              With Illustrations
                              J. P. BELL COMPANY
                           LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 1927


McReynolds

  Among county records the name McReynolds is found also written McRandle and
Reynolds: descendants of the last named continue to discard the prefix "Mc" and
thus give suggestion of a different family.

  James and Joseph McReynolds came, with their mother, from Ireland to America
about 1740. About 175O James established himself in what was still Lunenburg,
four years later became Bedford, in 1782 formed a part of Campbell and about the
middle of the 18th century was embraced in the county-slice given to Appomattox.
In 1763 James McRandle patented 242 acres lying on a branch of Mulberry creek, a
fork of Falling river, within Bedford boundary, but twenty years later James
McReynolds sold this tract along John Ferguson's line to one
Dunwoodie(Dinwiddie): he was probably married before settling in Bedford. His
children were:—Thomas, captain in the patriot army in 1779, and given the
captaincy of a Campbell militia company at the county formation;-Elizabeth;
—Joseph, m. 18O3, Catherine Mclvor; in 1784 he sold 100 acres on W. branch of
Island creek;—James in 18O1 patented 184 acres on the east branch of Falling
river;—John, m., 1788, Jane Campbell; m., 1796, Olivia Steele; he was a deputy
to James Miller, sheriff, in 1832;-Samuel m., 1794, Jennie Campbell;—Robert;
—Archibald;-Benjamin m., Elizabeth Wilson in 1798;—Oliver in 18O5, purchased of
Archibald Robertson, trustee, 172 acres of land formerly belonging to the
Archibald Bolling estate; moved with his family to Christian county, Ky., about
183O; a descendant, James C. McReynolds is an Associate Justice of the U. S.
Supreme Bench.

  James McReynolds, Sr., settled about seven miles south of what is now Spout
Spring, an Appomattox station on the Norfolk and Western railroad, and he was
buried there. His will, recorded in 18O3 (son Oliver, with John Helm and John
McAllister, executors), bequeathed to Oliver a 30-acre tract, all other real
estate, excepting four poles square (including his stonewalled graveyard) was to
be sold and the proceeds equally divided between his children and
grand-children, only Oliver, James, Archibald and Benjamin being mentioned by
name. A bequest of £1O (English) was devised for support of the Gospel at
Concord church, if service should be continued there by the Presbyterian
denomination, otherwise the money was to revert to his children.

  The settlement of William McReynold’s estate occurred in 18OO when allotments
were made to Martha Thomas (nee McReynolds) and to Joseph McReynolds of
Washington county, Va. Some descendants of the latter moved to East Tennessee
and Logan county, Ky. Judge James C. McReynolds (a descendant of John and Oliver
McReynolds through the marriage of cousins), upon a visit to the early home of
his ancestors was shown the well-kept minutes of the Concord Presbyterian
church, which he since had rebound in new leather. This secures the covering,
but does not conceal the original mottled boards. In recent years a history of
the church has been prepared by the minister, Rev. R. L. McNair, in charge at
New Concord church. The oldest inscribed gravestones in the churchyard are of
Captain Isaac Rucker, 18O8-1889, and Dr. Daniel S. Evans, 1824-1895.

  Marriages in the Reynolds family: 1791, Rachel Reynolds to John Haden; 1792,
William Reynolds to Martha Wilson; 1797, Nancy Reynolds to Henry Trent; 18O5,
Sarah Reynolds to Robert Daniel.


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