Mary Katharine Smith

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On July 20, 1853, a son was born to Hardin William and Nancy Jane Cox Reynolds at their home Rock Spring at the foot of No Business Mountain in the eastern section of Patrick County. Little could they realize what an impact this man would have on the world.
Two local traditions linger about the young man. In April 1865, he supposedly hid horses from the U. S. Cavalry under George Stoneman raiding in the last days of the Civil War. Another is in 1870 he attended Emory and Henry College, like Jeb Stuart twenty years earlier, but that Rufus James Woolwine apparently took his favorite girl from him and they married her.
The young man in question suffered from dyslexia and stammered. He had large appetites for work, women, gambling, and drink. He worked for his father as a salesman for the family tobacco business traveling through Tennessee, Kentucky and South Carolina saving his money for a future venture.
He needed a railroad hub for his business plans and since there was not one in Patrick County, he traveled to the nearest one. In 1874, he arrived in Winston, North Carolina with 5,000 dollars. Winston and Salem were separate towns then. He spent $388.50 for a hundred foot lot near railroad tracks to build a factory to manufacture chewing tobacco.
He married Mary Katherine Smith in 1905 and produced four children: Richard, Mary, Nancy and Zachary. When he died of cancer on July 29, 1918, his company had 121 buildings, ten thousand workers, made ten million dollars a year profit. He left an hundred million dollar estate including Reynolda House and Tanglewood. Virginia Tech operates his birthplace and seven hundred acres as the Reynolds Homestead.
Richard Joshua Reynolds is buried in the cemetery near Old Salem within site of the giant Wachovia building and the statue of himself as a young man coming from Patrick County to change the world.

Mary married Richard Joshua Reynolds 27 Feb 1905. Richard (son of Hardin William Reynolds and Nancy Jane Cox) was born 20 Jul 1850, Rock Springs, Patrick Co., Va; died 29 Jul 1918, Old Town, Forsyth, North Carolina; was buried , Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

1. Richard Joshua "Dick" Reynolds, Jr. was born 4 Apr 1906, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; died 14 Dec 1964, Lucerne, Switzerland; was buried , Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
2. Mary Katherine Reynolds was born 8 Aug 1908, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; died 17 Jul 1953, New York County, New York; was buried , Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
3. Nancy Susan Reynolds was born 5 Feb 1910, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; died 11 Jan 1985, Fairfield. Conn.; was buried , Reynolds Homestead Cemetery, Patrick County, Virginia.
4. Zachary Smith Reynolds was born 5 Nov 1911, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; died 6 Jul 1932, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; was buried , Salem Cemetery, North Carolina.

Mary married John Edward Johnston 11 Sep 1921, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. John was born 22 Oct 1893, South Carolina; died 17 Oct 1951, Baltimore City, Maryland; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Florence County, South Carolina. [Group Sheet]