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1910 - 1985 (74 years)
1850 - 1918 (68 years)
Birth |
20 Jul 1850 |
Rock Springs, Patrick Co., Va |
Died |
29 Jul 1918 |
Old Town, Forsyth, North Carolina |
Buried |
Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
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Father |
Hardin William Reynolds, b. 20 Apr 1810, Patrick County, Virginia |
Mother |
Nancy Jane Cox, b. 31 Mar 1825, Brown Mountain, Stokes Co., NC |
Married |
26 Jan 1843 |
Stokes, North Caroline |
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Family |
Mary Katharine Smith, b. 17 Nov 1880, Mount Airy, North Carolina |
Married |
27 Feb 1905 |
Children |
+ | 1. Richard Joshua "Dick" Reynolds, Jr., b. 4 Apr 1906, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
| 2. Mary Katherine Reynolds, b. 8 Aug 1908, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
| 3. Nancy Susan Reynolds, b. 5 Feb 1910, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
+ | 4. Zachary Smith Reynolds, b. 5 Nov 1911, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
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1880 - 1924 (43 years)
Birth |
17 Nov 1880 |
Mount Airy, North Carolina |
Died |
23 May 1924 |
New York |
Buried |
Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
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Family 1 |
Richard Joshua Reynolds, b. 20 Jul 1850, Rock Springs, Patrick Co., Va |
Married |
27 Feb 1905 |
Children |
+ | 1. Richard Joshua "Dick" Reynolds, Jr., b. 4 Apr 1906, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
| 2. Mary Katherine Reynolds, b. 8 Aug 1908, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
| 3. Nancy Susan Reynolds, b. 5 Feb 1910, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
+ | 4. Zachary Smith Reynolds, b. 5 Nov 1911, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
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Family 2 |
John Edward Johnston, b. 22 Oct 1893, South Carolina |
Married |
11 Sep 1921 |
Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
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Name |
Nancy Susan Reynolds |
Born |
5 Feb 1910 |
Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
Gender |
Female |
Died |
11 Jan 1985 |
Fairfield. Conn. |
Buried |
Reynolds Homestead Cemetery, Patrick County, Virginia |
Person ID |
I16130 |
My Reynolds Line |
Last Modified |
2 Feb 2021 |
Father |
Richard Joshua Reynolds, b. 20 Jul 1850, Rock Springs, Patrick Co., Va , d. 29 Jul 1918, Old Town, Forsyth, North Carolina (Age 68 years) |
Mother |
Mary Katharine Smith, b. 17 Nov 1880, Mount Airy, North Carolina , d. 23 May 1924, New York (Age 43 years) |
Married |
27 Feb 1905 |
Family ID |
F5680 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Sources |
- [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13765571.
Nancy Susan Reynolds
Birth 5 Feb 1910
Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina
Death 11 Jan 1985 (aged 74)
Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut
Burial
Reynolds Homestead Cemetery
Critz, Patrick County, Virginia
Nancy was the youngest daughter and last surviving child of R.J. Reynolds, and just 8 years old when he died. She was a working heiress, editor of Washington Life magazine that her granddaughter, Nancy Bagley, is editor-in-chief of today. Almost a century after her father founded the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, she decided to give something back to the region that gave her family its first opportunities. In 1969 she deeded Virginia Tech 710 acres of Rock Spring Plantation and in 1980 she deeded them another 7 acres, where the family home and continuing education center stand. A State and National landmark listed in the National Registry of American Homes, it is now called the Reynolds Homestead. Nancy created an endowment of $1.7 million to provide cultural programming to the surrounding community, to run a forestry research center on the site, and to fund a scholarship program for Patrick County high school students. She financed this transaction in part by selling Quarry Farm, her Greenwich, CT, home where stone for the Statue of Liberty was mined, to Diana Ross of the former Supremes. In 1952 she set up the Nancy Susan Bagley Foundation, now called the Arca Foundation, to better the lot of humankind. Her son and other family members are very invovled in the Foundation. Tobacco made her family wealthy and well known but it also is believed to have caused many of their deaths, including hers. Nancy had one cancerous lung removed and died of emphysema in the other. R.J., himself, died of pancreatic cancer believed to be the result of his life-long use of plug chewing tobacco. Her older brother, R.J., Jr., died at 58 of emphysema. Three of his four wives died of cancer. Her older sister, Mary Katherine, died at 45 of stomach cancer. Her nephew, R.J., III, (known as Josh), died at 60 of emphysema. Three years after Nancy's death, her oldest daughter, Jane, died of lung cancer. They all smoked. Nancy was married to Henry Walker Bagley with whom she had four children, Jane Bagley Long Lehman, Smith Walker Bagley, Susan Bagley Bloom, and Ann Bagley Grant. Her marriages to Henry Bagley and Gilbert Verney ended in divorce. Nancy would have been 75 less than a month after her death. Her youngest brother, Zachary Smith (known as Smith), died at 21 of a gunshot at Reynolda, the family home. His wife, torchsinger Libby Holman, was charged with his murder. The Reynolds family had the charges dropped as it was never proven whether his death was a murder or suicide. Because of the generosity of the Reynolds family, many individuals and organizations have benefited. Duke and Wake Forest Universities were early beneficiaries of their philanthropy. Today, Reynolda is run by Wake Forest University. Nancy is the only child of R.J. Reynolds that is buried at his birth place and boyhood home.
- [S150] Photograph, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13765571.
Nancy Susan Reynolds
- [S139] Passport Document.
Nancy Susan Reynolds
- [S211] State Select Marriages, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=NCMarriages&h=957568&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=4124.
married Henry Walker Bagby January 6, 1930, Forsythe County, North Carolina
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