Pleasants County, West Virginia, Biography of R. S. Reynolds

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R. S. REYNOLDS

R. S. Reynolds, a well-to-do farmer of Pleasants county, was born 
July 24, 1852, in the house where he now resides.  His parents were 
Daniel and Sarah (Larue) Reynolds, the former of whom was born in 
Washington county, Ohio, in 1801.  He was a son of Noah Reynolds, a 
native of England, who came to America in the seventeeth century, and 
settled in what is now Washington county, Ohio, but then a 
wilderness.  He located on what is called Ray's run.  During the war 
of 1812 he served as a soldier, and after the war spent the remainder 
of his life in Ohio.  The father of our subject was reared on the old 
farm in Ohio, came to West Virginia, about 1830, and settled on 
Middle Island creek, where he remained about three years.  He then 
moved to where our subject now resides on Middle Island, where he 
bought fifty-two acres of fine land which, however, was then covered 
with woods.  He spent his life on this island, where he remained 
until his death, which occurred April 3, 1887.  Here our subject was 
reared, receiving a limited education as he grew up to manhood.  In 
1876, he married Priscilla, daughter of Jacob and Margaret Delong, 
and the union resulted in the birth of six children, of whom the 
following named are living:  Oakey, Ida, Bernard, Lena and Harry.  
The mother, who is a native of Ohio, is a member of the Baptist 
church.  Mr. Reynolds is now owner of forty acres of the old 
homestead place, and has it in good condition  He is a substantial 
and well respected citizen.    

From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I; Brant & Fuller, 1891.


(Linda Cunningham Fluharty)