This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Reynolds Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zJB.2ACE/1104.1221.1223 Message Board Post: Not associated with this family. Used this name to test a new OCR reader. The info below came from "History of" books for Buchanan dated 1881 and 1898 respect. COL. JAMES J. REYNOLDS, farmer, sections 29 and 32, postoflice Agency, was born in Jackson County, Tennessee, September 17, 1813. In 1818 his parents emigrated to Missouri, locating in Clay County. At that time Buchanan County was Indian territory, with Clay as border county. In March, 1838, he moved to Buchanan County, locating near Sparta, where he engaged in farming. He was married to Miss Eliza S. Gibson April 21, 1842. She was born May 21, 1825, in McMinn County, Tennessee. They have had fourteen children, James M., born March 11, 1844; Mary J., born Feb ruary 23, 1846; George W., born November 3, 1847, died in 1853 ; Martha A., born November 26, 1849; Louisa E., born November 3, 1851 Elizabeth F., born May 14, 1853 ; William L., born December 28, 1854 Robert G., born September 15,1856, died in 1857; John B., born June 22, 1858; Thomas J., born July 25, 1860, died in 1861 Sterling P. born December 13, 1861 ; Lee J., born June 13, 1864, died in 1865 ; Joseph J., born September 5, 18! 66; Stephen D., born July 3, 1869. He owns 364 acres of land, all under fence and well improved, except forty acres. James M. was in the Confederate service under Colonel Gates in General Price’s army. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church. He was revenue collector of Buchanan County and Justice of the Peace for four years ; also colonel of the Eighty-seventh Missouri Regiment of Militia long before the war. They lived in Kansas from 1856 to 1860; he was a member of the constitutional convention and has been school director. Mr. R. is a well preserved old gentleman who, by his untiring industry, has prospered in life and been one of the most successful farmers of Buchanan County. His very countenance and that of his wife bespeak happiness, contentment and plenty. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WILLAIM W. REYNOLDS, baker, 2615 Layfayette, was born in St. Joseph Oct. 27, 1850. His parents, William W. and Susan (Gibson) Reynolds came to Buchanan County in the earliest days, locating on a farm fourteen miles south of St. Joseph. On reaching manhood our subject engaged in forming, then in selling furniture and then in the hotel and bakery business. He was always fond of horses and still handles them as part of his occupation. He was married in 1875 to Miss Minnie Dalhoff and two children have been born to them, a boy and a girl.