Nancy Susan Reynolds^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}

1910 - 1985  (74 years)

• 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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  Documents » Slide Show		Passport Application-Nancy Susan Reynolds nancysusanreynolds1.jpg
  		Passport Application nancysusanreynolds2.jpg
  		Reynolds-Bagley Wedding The Anniston Star Jan 7, 1930
  		Nancy Susan Reynolds-Obit Asheville Citizen Times Jan 12, 1985

  
  

  Histories » Slide Show		Nancy Susan Reynolds-Reynolds Homestead Opening The Danville Register Jun 21, 1970
  		Reynolda House-A Tobacco King's Palace Dayton Daily News Jan 21, 1979
  		Reynolds Homestead Daily Press May 21, 1971

  
  

• 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