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Photo Wesley with Jackie E. Reynolds

Wesley married Living [Group Sheet]

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Virginia Pittsylvania Co. Heritage Book 1767-2004 Paragraph
900 Robert Edwin and Nannie Richardson Kendrick Reynolds.
They were married on 3 Feb 1934. Nannie, the d/o William
Thomas Kendrick and Mary Mays, and Edwin, the son of John
Levi Reynolds and Emma. After their marriage they moved
into a one-room cabin on John Levi's place and produced
their first son Wesley 20 Jan 1935. That spring they moved
about a mile to a one-room cabin, with a loft and lean-to,
on Witchia A. Finney's farm. They farmed as tenant tobacco
farmers for about 12 years. They used a black pot to make
lye soap, heat water for baths and to can foods.
"Whitewash" was brought from a pit nearby and 'daubed' on
the inside of the cabin walls. Wewin cut his wheat with a
hand cradle (sic), and a group of men with a 'combine'
would come through the county each year and 'thrash' the
wheat to be ground for flour, hog feed, etc. Cider making,
corn 'shuckings, and 'pig pickins' were fall activities.
Three other children, Janice, Jackie and Betty Lou, were
born there. Those cold winter nights caused a lot of
snuggling. The children slept in the loft and sometimes
snow would blow in, between the logs and would cover the
bed and floor. In 1947 Edwin bought an 80 acre farm, with
a 4 room frame house and no electricity or plumbing, about
a mile south, from Johnny Fuller, with the help of an
uncle, Witchia Finney. In 1948 Edwin went to work at Lee
Telephone Co. Edwin retired at age 62 and he and Nannie
lived out their lives on the place, in much the same
life-style as in the beginning, until their deaths 7 Aug
1997 and Nannie's in 3 Aug 1999.
Sandra June Reynolds-Author

Robert married Nannie Richardson Kendrick 3 Feb 1934, Callands, Virginia. Nannie (daughter of William Thomas Kendrick and Mary Stella Mays) was born 1 Feb 1917, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia; died 3 Aug 1999, Pittsylvania County, Virginia; was buried , County Line Christian Church Cemetery Axton, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

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Sandra June Reynolds
Movher lived to be 93. She was so meek and patience with everyone. She worked so hard all her life, cooking, milking and taking care of all her family. Her mom died when she was about 12 so she quit school to take care of her brothes and dad. After her dad married again, her stepmom insisted she return to school. She went as far as the school taught. Her teacher told her that she had taught her every thing she knew. When she married , her husband's mom had also died so she took care of her father-n-law and two brother -n-laws and three sister-n-laws. Of course they pitched in and helped. She had 9 children. The oldest boy was killed in WWII. When most of her children were grown, she started raising grandchildren. I was the first! Everyone that knew her loved her. I still think of her several times every day.

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E-mail from Sandra June Reynolds
Jan 2014
Happy New Year to you too. Who is this Betty Ann Grant? I knew Mable W. Merricks. Wes and I are good friends with her son Trent. That is John Levy Reynolds in the picture. Homer Reynolds is the one who was married to Callie Ark Reynolds. They had a shotgun wedding with my grandpa Charlie behind the gun. Rosco Reynolds was the result of that marriage. Homer went into the Army immediately after the wedding . He went to NY where he came down with the flu and died.

I knew some of the men in the picture. I remember Jabe Wells and one of my favorite people was Frank Fuller. He was our mail carrier for years, He had lunch at Grady store with daddy every day. I was always there in the summer. He had his wife, Nancy, a teacher at Callands , buy me a beautiful blue dress with a big white color with blue buttons on it for my 10th birthday. She or someone wrapped it up with a beautiful ribbon and he brought it to the store and gave it to me. It was such a suprise He was a sweet man. He and his wife only had one son and they didn't mix with the rest of the people in the neighborhood. I think that was his wife's doings. They lived in the house just up the road on the other side of the road from Jims store. It was a nicer house than any other around there. It also had a bathroom. Every body else around there had a johnny house. I used their gully as my shopping store for my playhouse because Nancy used a lot of creams and perfumes and things that came in pretty bottles.

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John married Emma Maud Reynolds * Jun 1905, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Emma (daughter of Cephus Wilson Reynolds and Tabitha Gabrilla Wells) was born 30 Oct 1883, Pittsylvania County, Virginia; died 11 Nov 1973, Pittsylvania County, Virginia; was buried , James S. Reynolds Family Cemetery Callands, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

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William married Mary Stella Mays 10 Nov 1915, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Mary was born 17 Sep 1898, Pittsylvania County, Virginia; died 25 Aug 1977, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

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Was born in a cabin on John Reynolds Place, Callands, Va

Charlie Wade Reynolds: From 1946 until his death he was a
farmer, then a merchant who owned Charlie's Store in Grady,
Va. From 1915-1945 (from the age of 27) he lived on the
Swanson Place and Charlie Wells' Place.

For a year or two after he was married he and Annie lived
on his father's (John Henry Reynolds) farm, which was sold
after his death. The cabin was very cold in the winter and
in bad shape.

Charlie, Annie, Basil & their baby Edith, Charlie's
sisters, Callie & Tabbie and brothers Bogey & Silas then
moved to the Swanson Place which was just across the road.
Tabbie died from TB while living there. She was in her
20's and was engaged to a man from Danville. She was
buried on the Lee Reynolds place near her parents. They
stayed there until about 1936. The rest of the children
were born while they lived there (7). It was a beautiful
place surrounded with Cherry Trees. The children played in
the Turkeycock Creek and the woods.

Uncle Allen and Aunt Charlotte lived on the place too.
They were an old Black couple who had been slaves when they
were children. Annie said that she couldn't have "done it"
without Aunt Charlotte. Annie told many stories about Aunt
Charlotte and how she helped care for the children. Aunt
Charlotte lived in a cabin and cooked over a fireplace and
carried water in a churn on top of her head up a hill from
the spring. She also made ash bread, so called, because
the dough was placed on a flat rock and covered with ashes
and placed in the fire where it cooked. You then brushed
or cut off the ashes and ate the bread. J. W. Swanson
built his house where the cabin had stood (residence in
1930).


Wilbur Reynolds Painting of Homestead; All of Charlie Wade and Annie Reynolds children were born here except Edith and Basil. The Swanson Place

Charlie married Annie Eliza Slaydon 19 Dec 1914, Henry Hotel, Martinsville, Virginia U.S.A.. Annie (daughter of James Edward "Ned" Slaydon and Aneliza Price) was born 16 Jan 1891, Sandy River, Pittsylvania, Virginia ; died 27 May 1984, Danville Memorial Hospital, Danville, Virginia ; was buried 29 May 1984, County Line Christian Church, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia . [Group Sheet]

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Donna Hundley Martin
January 16, 2015 · Atlanta, GA ·

Today would have been my Grandma Reynolds' birthday. I have so many fond memories of her. Annie Eliza Slaydon Reynolds was one of the kindest women that I have ever known. When she was around 12 (maybe younger), her mother passed away and she quit school to stay at home to take care of the kids and the house. When her father remarried, her step-mother encouraged her to go back to school. Not sure how many more years of schooling she got. Her home was always open to us. I am sure that we probably drove her a little bit crazy because there were kids everywhere, all the time. I do not remember her ever raising her voice to any of us. Teresa probably could answer that question better since she lived with her. Grandma Reynolds had 9 children. She lost her second-born, Basil in World War II. I often think about what she and Grandpa must have felt like when they got the telegram that their oldest son was dead.

To know Grandma was to love Grandma. Let's go down memory road: Sandra Reynolds Steve Bonnie Hundley Basil Hundley Andy Hundley Anita Amos Lori Irby Tonya Reynolds Myers Heather Turlington Moses Carl Turlington Jenifer Reynolds (Joey) Tony Coward Spencer Bullington Nancy Hundley Anna Rigney

Deidre Reynolds Stone The Slaydon's. Grandma spelled it with a "d". Some others spell it with a "t". Uncle Kenneth for one. Cole's middle name is Slaydon and I labored over how to spell it. After talking to Mama (Sandra) and Nancy it was spelled with a "d". Now he tells me he wishes that was his first name. He loves it.

Sandra Reynolds
Sandra Reynolds Mother was the best person I have ever known. She always said, "If you can't say something good about someone , don't say anything at all. She followed this rule herself. I was her foot person, I took care of her feet for years and was happy to do it, she appreciated it so much. Glad to do a little something for her after all she did for me. I can remember her reading books to me when I was a little girl, guess that's where I got my love of reading. She never raised her voice to anyone, always so meek, still think of her every day. Wish I had kept all the wonderful informative letters that she wrote me while I lived in Newport News and NY. She wrote to me just about every week. Loved those letters. She told me about Teresa climbing the tree in the front yard in Feb., with only her panties on. It was sleeting out and she wouldn't come down. Mother though it was so funny. Will stop but I could write a book about our sweet grandma Annie.