This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YCB.2ACI/557.1 Message Board Post: (NOTE: THIS INFORMATION WAS TAKEN OUT OF LAKE CHARLES DAILY AMERICA ON TUESDAY JUNE 20, 1905) CAPT, TOM REYNOLDS IS DEAD PASSED AWAY EARLY THIS MORNING AFTER SEVERAL WEEKS OF ILLNESS. CAPT. TOM REYNOLDS IS DEAD, AFTER A BRAVE BATTLE WITH THE GRIM DESTROYER, HE YIELDED UP HIS SPIRIT TO ITS MAKER AT 5'0'CLOCK THIS MORNING. FOR THE PAST FEW DAYS HE HAS BEEN IN A COMATOSE CONDITION AND HIS FRIENDS HAD AMPLE WARNING OF HIS APPROACHING DISSOLUTION. THE FUNERAL TAKES PLACE THIS AFTERNOON AT 4:30 FROM THE FAMILY RESIDENCE ON KIRKMAN STREET, FOLLOWED BY SERVICES AT THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, AT 5:30. THE MASONIC FRATERNITY WILL THEN TAKE CHARGE OF THE REMAINS AND THE FINAL SERVICES WILL TAKE PLACE AT ORANGE GROVE CEMETERY. THOMAS REUBEN REYNOLDS AGE 72, WAS BORN IN NORFOLK, VA, AND REMOVED FROM HIS PARENTS TO QUEBEC, CANADA. HIS FATHER WAS A MERCHANT AND SHIP OWNER. HE LEFT HOME WHEN A BOY nd went to east indies on his father vessels. he followed the sea, until about 1852, when he went to mobile and was pilot on boats plying between mobile and new orleans. he then removed to bayou teche and married loretta v. chapman about 1856 and by this union seven children were born of whom fred s. reynolds is the only one living. his wife died about 1874. he married his present wife feb. 15, 1883. he is prominent in masonic circles has held the office of master of l.o. lodge 165, high priest of r.a. chapter 47, life member cyrus! chapter 12, franklin, la: belongs to order of high priest-hood. an officer in the thrice illustrious grand council of Louisiana--past worth patron ruth chapter 16 Order of eastern Star, he has for the past 30 years devoted his life to the advancement and promotion of masonry and being a constant student was enabled to impart Masonic Light to less informed, and whenever a Lodge or Chapter was to be organized and instituted in Southwest louisiana, brother Reynolds, or uncle Tom, as he was called, was always sent for. The Masonic brethern will greatly miss him. no information given on his 2nd wife name will look a little further, but his first wife name was LORETTA V. CHAPMAN REYNOLDS BORN 1856 DIED 1874 HOPE THIS HELP, SINCERELY, STACEY