Jemima (Andrew) Reynolds (1814 - 1888)

Born 21 Feb 1814 in NC

Wife of David Reynolds — married 4 Feb 1835 in Spring MM, Alliance or Orange, NC

Descendants

Died 1 Dec 1888 at age 74 in Amboy, IN, bur Amboy Friends Cem

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Biography

Jemima was a Friend (Quaker)

Jemima Andrew was born in North Carolina on February 21, 1814. She became a member of the Friends Church at about age 21, and on February 4, 1835, she married David Reynolds at the Spring Monthly Meeting of Friends in North Carolina. In 1836, the couple relocated to Wayne County, Indiana, and in 1852, the family moved to Miami County, Indiana. David died in 1865 and in 1883, with her sons Jesse and David, Jemima removed to Kansas, where she became a member of the Harrisonville Monthly Meeting. Three weeks prior to her death, she returned to Amboy, Indiana to reside with son-in-law John Ridgway. There she died on December 1, 1888.

Sources

• U.S., Hinshaw Index to Selected Quaker Records, Indiana, New Garden Monthly Meeting (birth and moves of 1836 and 1852)
• U.S., Hinshaw Index to Selected Quaker Records, Indiana, Amboy Monthly Meeting (birth)
• U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, North Carolina, Spring Monthly Meeting (marriage)
• Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Vol. I, p. 687 (Center Monthly Meeting, North Carolina, grants removal certificate to New Garden, Indiana on 8/20/1836)
• U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, Indiana, Mississinewa Monthly Meeting (1852 removal certificate received 3/17/1852)
• U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, Indiana, Amboy Monthly Meeting (granting certificate of removal to Kansas 5/8/1884)
• Christian Worker, vol. XVIII, no. 50 (December 13, 1888), p. 600 (obituary)
• Find A Grave Memorial no. 69262835 [1]
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHV6-NKY : 12 April 2016), Jemima Reynolds in household of David Reynolds, New Garden, Wayne, Indiana, United States.
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4NY-8SJ : 13 December 2017), Jemima Reynolds in entry for David Reynolds, Jackson Township, Miami, Indiana, United States.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH9S-M7R : 24 August 2017), Jemima Reynolds in household of Jesse Reynolds, Mill, Grant, Indiana, United States.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Tom Horner for starting this profile.