Mary Katharine Smith^{[1, 2]}

1880 - 1924  (43 years)

• Name	Mary Katharine Smith
  Born	17 Nov 1880	Mount Airy, North Carolina
  Gender	Female
  Died	23 May 1924	New York
  Buried	Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina   [3]
  Person ID	I16083	My Reynolds Line
  Last Modified	5 Jul 2019

  
  

  Family 1	Richard Joshua Reynolds,   b. 20 Jul 1850, Rock Springs, Patrick Co., Va ,   d. 29 Jul 1918, Old Town, Forsyth, North Carolina  (Age 68 years)
  Married	27 Feb 1905
  Children	+ 1. Richard Joshua "Dick" Reynolds, Jr.,   b. 4 Apr 1906, Winston-Salem, North Carolina ,   d. 14 Dec 1964, Lucerne, Switzerland  (Age 58 years)   2. Mary Katherine Reynolds,   b. 8 Aug 1908, Winston-Salem, North Carolina ,   d. 17 Jul 1953, New York County, New York  (Age 44 years)   3. Nancy Susan Reynolds,   b. 5 Feb 1910, Winston-Salem, North Carolina ,   d. 11 Jan 1985, Fairfield. Conn.  (Age 74 years) + 4. Zachary Smith Reynolds,   b. 5 Nov 1911, Winston-Salem, North Carolina ,   d. 6 Jul 1932, Winston-Salem, North Carolina  (Age 20 years)
  Last Modified	16 Dec 2020
  Family ID	F5680	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	John Edward Johnston,   b. 22 Oct 1893, South Carolina ,   d. 17 Oct 1951, Baltimore City, Maryland  (Age 57 years)
  Married	11 Sep 1921	Winston-Salem, North Carolina
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2016
  Family ID	F5686	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		Mary Katherine Reynolds Johnston-Obit Times Herald (Olean, NY) May 24, 1924
  		Richard Joshua Reynolds-Obit Raleigh News and Observer Jul 30, 1918
  		Death Certificate-Zachary Smith Reynolds zacharysmithreynolds.jpg
  		Marriage Record-Mary Katharine Smith Reynolds to John Edward Johnston johnston-reynolds.jpg
  		Mary Katherine Reynolds Babcock-Obit The Index-Journal Jul 18, 1953
  		Reynolds-Smith Wedding Winston-Salem Journal Feb 28, 1905

  
  

  Histories		Richard Joshua Reynolds-Novel Features In Will The Baltimore Sun Sep 6, 1918
  		Reynolda House-A Tobacco King's Palace Dayton Daily News Jan 21, 1979

  
  

• Notes

  http://www.freestateofpatrick.com/rjrh.htm 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S46] Marriage Record/Certificate, http://interactive.ancestry.com/8909/NCVR_M_C038_62081-0344?pid=966857&backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2f%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3findiv%3d1%26db%3dNCMarriages%26h%3d966857%26tid%3d%26pid%3d%26usePUB%3dtrue%26rhSource%3d60525&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true. Mary Katherine Smith Reynolds to John Edward Johnston [S37] Death Certificate. [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10170372. [S274] TILLMAN , Stephen Frederick Tillman. Page 118. 1104. RICHARD JOSHUA REYNOLDS, son of Harden (1100) and Nancy (Cox) Reynolds, b. 7-20-1853 in Patrick County, Va. He m. 2-27-1905 Mary Katherine Smith, of Surry County, N.C., and settled in Winston Salem, N.C., where he established the R. J. Reynolds Tobbacco Company. Issue: Richard Joshua, b. 4-4-1906; Mary Katherine, who m. Charles Babcock, and now lives in N.Y.C.; Nancy Susan, whom. Henry Walker Bagley, and now lives in N.Y.C.; and Zachary Smith, who m. Anne L. Cannon. This entry appears to be correct!