[Reynolds-L] REYNOLDS Digest, Vol 10, Issue 2

Sun Dec 20 19:37:40 EST 2015

Hello Vivian and others:

In addition to the discussion chain below, I came across several
emails/messages in rootsweb archives that you sent to lists on topics
related to James Reynolds and Susannah Malone of Lunenburg & Halifax, VA,
and Greene Co., GA.

While I can't answer the questions you posed about James Reynolds's
origins, I want to make contact as it appears we might be researching the
same James.

Recently, the project administrator(s) at the FTDNA Reynolds surname
project matched my kit (#329139) with the kit you discussed (#94373) in
your 1/2/2015 email below. As you discussed, kit #94373 notes their oldest
known paternal ancestor as "James Reynolds, b. in VA, d.c.1820 in GA".
However, since you wrote last January, kit #94373 has been disassociated
from the George Reynolds group. Prior to the administrator matching me with
#94373, I had been languishing in the "Ungrouped" category for quite some
time. Perhaps it was my upgrade to a higher resolution test about a year
ago that made the match possible.

So far, research has only taken me back to a Joseph Reynolds, born about
1819 in southern KY. Joseph married Amanda Gatrill/Gatrell (daughter of
Dennis Gatrill and Agnes Payne) in the early 1840s in Russel Co., KY. Many
internet resources suggest that Joseph is the son of Isaac Reynolds and
Christina Heck of Mason Co., KY, but I have looked high and low and haven't
found evidence to support that relationship. Joseph, his young family, and
allied families (I've followed the group of Simpsons, Dowells,
Higginbothams, McKinneys, Paynes, Gartrells, and others in this migration),
moved from southern KY in the 1840s to south-central Missouri and then
onward to NW Arkansas before the civil war. Several of Joseph's children
moved on from NW Arkansas to NE Texas and southern Oklahoma by about 1900.
I was born in north Texas.

I've done a good deal of research back to Joseph and now look forward to
investigating a possible connection to your James, based on the suggested
DNA match. I suppose I can research the children of James and see if any
relocate to southern KY. Many of my Joseph's associates there were
originally from the Halifax and Pittsylvania counties of southern VA--near
where your James appears to have resided for some time.

Based on some of your other messages, it appears that you may be related
via James's daughter Patsy. I'd appreciate any basic info you have on the
children of your James in order to help my investigation get started.
James's 1822 will lists William, John, James, Nancy, Polly, Patsy, and
Rebeccah as children. It would be a direct male line that may connect your
James to my Joseph. If we can confirm our connection then you can also
benefit from a 111-marker DNA composite of your Reynolds line.

To any other researchers, please feel free to reach out if you're working
on this line. I'm always glad to share.

Best regards and happy holidays,

Tommy
Fairfax, Virginia
tommyecommerce at gmail.com

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 3:00 AM, <reynolds-request at rootsweb.com> wrote:

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> Today's Topics:
>
>    1. YDNA MARKERS FOR JAMES REYNOLDS D. C 1822 GREENE COUNTY,
>       GEORGIA-Need info on George Reynolds Group??? (vtoole)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 18:40:12 -0600
> From: "vtoole" <vtoole at myinu.net>
> Subject: [REYNOLDS] YDNA MARKERS FOR JAMES REYNOLDS D. C 1822 GREENE
>         COUNTY, GEORGIA-Need info on George Reynolds Group???
> To: "'LENDEL REYNOLDS'" <lendel.reynolds at gmail.com>,    "Tom Reynolds"
>         <troutlaketom at embarqmail.com>,  "rhunter63"
>         <rhunter63 at tampabay.rr.com>, <reynolds at rootsweb.com>,
>         <reynolds-l at reynoldsfamily.org>,        "joe.
> reynolds at reynoldsfamily. org"
>         <joe.reynolds at reynoldsfamily.org>
> Message-ID: <000001d026ed$d7fa3cb0$87eeb610$@myinu.net>
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> Reynolds Researchers,
>
>                 These are the DNA Markers for my James Reynolds b.c. 1750
> or before maybe in Virginia or Scotland or somewhere over seas.  Married
> Susannah/Sukey Malone, dau. of Daniel Malone, Sr..  Lived in Lunengurg
> County, Virginia, apparently physically moved to Halifax County, Virginia
> by late 1780?s, was in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, by 1798,  Died in Greene
> County, Georgia, with a will c. 1822.  Have descendants of most of his
> children except some daughters.  Only have their given and married last
> name from his will.
>
>                 On the familytreedna.com Reynolds web site the YDNA test
> for a male Reynolds surname descendant is #94373 under a group heading for
> a George Reynolds, no other information given on why this group is titled
> under George.
>
>                 Information listed with #94373 is James Reynolds b. in VA,
> d. c. 1820 GA, country Scotland and Haplogroup R-P-312.  I have since
> learned through connections that developed around the Reynolds Reunion held
> in Houston, Texas, last September that this sample was supplied by a
> Douglas Rutherford, a CPA in Lilburn, Georgia, from his now deceased
> Reynolds Uncle.  His mother is/was a Reynolds.  His Reynolds migrated west
> to Arkansas and then to Oklahoma and then he just happened to moved back to
> Georgia.  My Reynolds connections to James stayed in Greene County,
> Georgia.  I am originally from Georgia; I just married a Texan.
>
>                 My questions are, does anyone have any information on any
> of the other Reynolds that someone  assigned under this George Reynolds
> name?  I always thought that to be somewhat related the samples should fall
> into the same haplogroups.  Of these 14 samples listed under George only
> one other has the same R-P312 Haplogroup.  Does anyone have a paper trail
> of documentation on any one in this group of names that might seem to trace
> to our James Reynolds?
>
>                 Does anyone have any information on this George Reynolds
> and why these names/samples were listed under him?
>
>                 Our James Reynolds has first been found in Lunenburg
> County, Virginia, in the early 1770?s married to Susannah/Sukey Malone.  No
> other Reynolds are around to be associated with him.  The logical migration
> route would be from Isle of Wight County, Virginia.  Lots of information
> around on Reynolds from that county early.  No James and no James of right
> age to be ours.
>
>                 Obviously the YDNA markers match for them to be put
> together under some group name.  Does anyone have the/a paper connection or
> at least parts of what might fit.
>
>                 A book red book of which I have a copy has been written on
> the Malones.  I have researched the Reynolds off and on since 1967.  It was
> only since the Internet and e-mail lists at rootsweb.com developed that I
> made a connection on the Greene County, Georgia, list that finally got our
> James Reynolds out of Georgia through the Malone connections.
>
>                 Any addition information would be appreciated.  Happy New
> Year.
>
>                 Vivian Cates, Mound Prairie, Alto, Texas 75925-5706
> 1-936-858-3801
>
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