Nancy Jane Cox^[1]

1825 - 1903  (77 years)

• Name	Nancy Jane Cox
  Born	31 Mar 1825	Brown Mountain, Stokes Co., NC
  Gender	Female
  Died	7 Mar 1903	Winston-Salem, North Carolina
  Buried	Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina   [2]
  Person ID	I3731	My Reynolds Line
  Last Modified	10 Apr 2017

  
  

  Family	Hardin William Reynolds,   b. 20 Apr 1810, Patrick County, Virginia ,   d. 30 May 1882, Winston Salem, North Carolina  (Age 72 years)
  Married	26 Jan 1843	Stokes, North Caroline
  Children	1. Mary Josephine Reynolds,   b. 5 Jan 1844, Patrick County, Virginia ,   d. 30 Jan 1888, Virginia  (Age 44 years)   2. Agnes C Reynolds,   b. 26 May 1845, Patrick County, Virginia ,   d. 18 Jun 1861, Patrick County, Virginia  (Age 16 years)   3. Major Abram David Reynolds,   b. 13 Aug 1847, Virginia ,   d. 23 Sep 1925, Bristol, Tennessee  (Age 78 years)   4. Twin Sons Reynolds,   b. 20 Apr 1849, Patrick County, Virginia ,   d. Apr 1849, Patrick County, Virginia + 5. Richard Joshua Reynolds,   b. 20 Jul 1850, Rock Springs, Patrick Co., Va ,   d. 29 Jul 1918, Old Town, Forsyth, North Carolina  (Age 68 years) + 6. Hardin Harbour Reynolds,   b. 8 Jun 1854, Patrick County, Virginia ,   d. 21 Jun 1927, Baltimore County, Maryland  (Age 73 years)   7. John G. Reynolds,   b. 13 Mar 1856, Patrick County, Virginia ,   d. 29 Oct 1862, Patrick County, Virginia  (Age 6 years) + 8. Lucy B. Reynolds,   b. 17 Feb 1858, Patrick County, Virginia ,   d. 18 Jul 1953, Winston-Salem, North Carolina  (Age 95 years)   9. Nancy B. Reynolds,   b. 28 Nov 1859, Patrick County, Virginia ,   d. 31 Oct 1862, Patrick County, Virginia  (Age 2 years)   10. Ernest Critaden Reynolds,   b. 14 Jul 1861,   d. 20 Oct 1862  (Age 1 years)   11. William Neal Reynolds,   b. 22 Mar 1863,   d. 10 Sep 1951, Winston-Salem, North Carolina  (Age 88 years)   12. Walter Robert Reynolds,   b. 1 Nov 1866, Patrick County, Virginia ,   d. 6 Mar 1921, Winston-Salem, North Carolina  (Age 54 years)
  Last Modified	14 Jun 2016
  Family ID	F82	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Portrait of Nancy Jane Reynolds (nee Cox) nancy-jane-cox.jpg

  
  

  Documents

  Nancy Jane Cox Reynolds-Obit Winston-Salem Journal Mar 8, 1903

  
  

  Headstones		Nancy Cox Reynolds-Headstone ReynoldsNancy Cox.jpg
  		Hardin Williams Reynolds-Headstone ReynoldsHardinWilliams.jpg

  
  

  Histories		Nancy Jane Cox Reynolds-Biography The Danbury Reporter Nov 5, 1924
  		Reynolds Homestead Daily Press May 21, 1971

  
  

• 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

  [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 12512420. irth: Mar. 21, 1825 Brown Mountain Stokes County North Carolina, USA Death: Mar. 7, 1903 Mother of R.J. Reynolds. Family links: Spouse: Hardin William Reynolds (1810 - 1882)* Children: Mary Josephine Reynolds Lybrook (1844 - 1888)* Agnes C. Reynolds (1845 - 1861)* Abram David Reynolds (1847 - 1925)* Twin Sons Reynolds (1849 - 1849)* Richard Joshua Reynolds (1850 - 1918)* Hardin Harbour Reynolds (1854 - 1927)* John G. Reynolds (1856 - 1862)* Lucy B Reynolds Critz (1858 - 1953)* Nancy B. Reynolds (1859 - 1862)* Ernest G. Reynolds (1861 - 1862)* William Neal Reynolds (1863 - 1951)* Walter Robert Reynolds (1866 - 1921)* [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12512420. [S18] Family Search, LDS. Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M01392-3 , System Origin: North Carolina-EASy , GS Film number: 422159 , Reference ID: p 251 Name: Harden W. Reynolds Spouse's Name: Nancy J. Cox Event Date: 26 Jan 1843 Event Place: Stokes, North Carolina