Richard Reynolds Jr (1770 - 1823)

Born 1770 in Virginia

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Died 1823 at about age 53 in Owsley County,Ky

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Biography

Richard was born in 1770, he is the son of Richard Spencer and Sarah Ann Doggett Reynolds.

He was one of the first settlers to come to what is now Owsley County, KY, coming there in the late 1700's. He gave the town of Cow Creek its name.

He married Elizabeth Naomi McLemore, and they had eight children - Pleasant, Tobias, Cecelia, Temperance, Richard Jr, Lydia (my 3rd great grandmother), Sarah, and Abisa.

The old Richard Reynolds cemetery was destroyed and the people of Cow Creek took up a collection and bought the large monument which has all the names of the Reynolds family who are buried there. It's placed where the cemetery was.

. He passed away in 1823. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Unsourced family tree handed down to Annetta Cornelius.

• "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHLT-GRK : accessed 25 November 2017), Richard Reynolds Jr, New Port Parish, Isle of Wight, Virginia, United States; citing p. 267, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 132; FHL microfilm 193,691

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGK9-SKXN : 14 December 2017), Richard Reynolds, ; Burial, Cow Creek, Owsley, Kentucky, United States of America, Old Richard Reynolds Cemetery; citing record ID 184966263, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.