West Texas lost its last real old pioneer new Year's morning.
Phin W. Reynolds, who has lived 92 or his 94 years in Throdkmorton, Shackelford and Eastland counties, died Tuesday morning. Death was from advanced years. He died at his home in Albany where he had resided for the past 61 years.
Old time friends and relatives of the Reynolds and Matthews families from many Texas cities gathered here Wednesday for the funeral service, conducted at the First Baptist Church. Burial was in the Albany Cemetery.
P. W. Reynolds was born in Shelby county, Texas, August 3, 1857, and was the last surviving son of Barber Watkins Reynolds. The Reynolds brothers had been identified with the cattle industry in West Texas for the past 75 years.
When Mr. Reynolds was two years old the family moved to Stephens county and settled near the site of Breckenridge. In 1864 after the Comanche and Kiowa Indians made the big raid down Elm Creek in Young County, killing 15 people and carrying seven women and children into captivity, the Reynolds family forted up with other settlers at old Fort Davis in Stephens County. Phin W. Reynolds was the last survivor of the settlers who occcupied that old fort for the two years of its existance. In 1866 the family moved to the old Stone Ranch, a western outpost on the frontier in Throckmorton County, which is now Lambshead ranch.
When his brother, George T. Reynolds, was seriously injured in a fight with Indians in Haskell county, west of the Stone Ranch, and the Indians had raided and driven off some 500 cattle from their range, the family moved to near Fort Griffin in 1867 shortly after the fort's establishment.
More Indian trouble caused them to move to Parker county two years later. In 1872 they moved to the state of Colorado, but in 1875 returned to the Clear Fork of the Brazos in Throckmorton County.
It was on the Clear Fork that the Reynolds and Matthews family formed a partnership in the cattle business, and upon the dissolution of the partnership in 1885 the Reynolds brothers formed the Reynolds Cattle Co.,
which has since been well known as one of the largest cattle and ranching concerns in West Texas and has operated ranches in North Dakota and Montana as well as in Texas.
Phin Reynolds was the last survivor of the original stockholders of the company.
Mr. Reynolds was one of the few old trail drivers left. As trail boss, he took herds up the trail for Reynolds and Matthews, and later for the Reynolds Cattle Co. He drove the trail to Hunewell and Dodge City, Kansas, to the state of Colorado, and the long trail to Nort Dakota, and trailed a herd from Billings, Montana, for 300 miles to near the Canadian border.
He possessed an accurate memory and his trail driving experiences on the frontier were published by the West Texas Historical association year
book in 1945. He has furnished much valuable information to historians doing research work on frontier life.
In 1890 Mr. Reynolds moved his family to Albany, and acquired a large ranch just north of town. He later acquired holdings in Scurry county, but retired from the ranch business in 1921. He was manager of the Cisco Cottol Oil Company from it establishment in 1897 until it sold in 1922, and he was a past president of the First Nation Bank in Albany.
Mr. Reynolds was a Mason and was a member of the First Baptist
Church of Albany since 1892. Until some two or three years ago Mr. Reynolds was a frequent visitor down town in Albany. His accurate memory of old times, and stories of early cowboy and frontier life are well remembered by his friends.
Albany News
January 33, 1952
pg. 1
Mr. Phineas Reynolds married Roseannah Matthews. Mr. Phineas had a home in town on Jacobs Street, directly across the street east from the Jacobs house, the oldest residence in Albany. He also had a home on the ranch north of Albany. He only served on the bank board for two years. (Info from The First 100 Years)
Phin W. Reynolds, who has lived 92 or his 94 years in Throdkmorton, Shackelford and Eastland counties, died Tuesday morning. Death was from advanced years. He died at his home in Albany where he had resided for the past 61 years.
Old time friends and relatives of the Reynolds and Matthews families from many Texas cities gathered here Wednesday for the funeral service, conducted at the First Baptist Church. Burial was in the Albany Cemetery.
P. W. Reynolds was born in Shelby county, Texas, August 3, 1857, and was the last surviving son of Barber Watkins Reynolds. The Reynolds brothers had been identified with the cattle industry in West Texas for the past 75 years.
When Mr. Reynolds was two years old the family moved to Stephens county and settled near the site of Breckenridge. In 1864 after the Comanche and Kiowa Indians made the big raid down Elm Creek in Young County, killing 15 people and carrying seven women and children into captivity, the Reynolds family forted up with other settlers at old Fort Davis in Stephens County. Phin W. Reynolds was the last survivor of the settlers who occcupied that old fort for the two years of its existance. In 1866 the family moved to the old Stone Ranch, a western outpost on the frontier in Throckmorton County, which is now Lambshead ranch.
When his brother, George T. Reynolds, was seriously injured in a fight with Indians in Haskell county, west of the Stone Ranch, and the Indians had raided and driven off some 500 cattle from their range, the family moved to near Fort Griffin in 1867 shortly after the fort's establishment.
More Indian trouble caused them to move to Parker county two years later. In 1872 they moved to the state of Colorado, but in 1875 returned to the Clear Fork of the Brazos in Throckmorton County.
It was on the Clear Fork that the Reynolds and Matthews family formed a partnership in the cattle business, and upon the dissolution of the partnership in 1885 the Reynolds brothers formed the Reynolds Cattle Co.,
which has since been well known as one of the largest cattle and ranching concerns in West Texas and has operated ranches in North Dakota and Montana as well as in Texas.
Phin Reynolds was the last survivor of the original stockholders of the company.
Mr. Reynolds was one of the few old trail drivers left. As trail boss, he took herds up the trail for Reynolds and Matthews, and later for the Reynolds Cattle Co. He drove the trail to Hunewell and Dodge City, Kansas, to the state of Colorado, and the long trail to Nort Dakota, and trailed a herd from Billings, Montana, for 300 miles to near the Canadian border.
He possessed an accurate memory and his trail driving experiences on the frontier were published by the West Texas Historical association year
book in 1945. He has furnished much valuable information to historians doing research work on frontier life.
In 1890 Mr. Reynolds moved his family to Albany, and acquired a large ranch just north of town. He later acquired holdings in Scurry county, but retired from the ranch business in 1921. He was manager of the Cisco Cottol Oil Company from it establishment in 1897 until it sold in 1922, and he was a past president of the First Nation Bank in Albany.
Mr. Reynolds was a Mason and was a member of the First Baptist
Church of Albany since 1892. Until some two or three years ago Mr. Reynolds was a frequent visitor down town in Albany. His accurate memory of old times, and stories of early cowboy and frontier life are well remembered by his friends.
Albany News
January 33, 1952
pg. 1
Mr. Phineas Reynolds married Roseannah Matthews. Mr. Phineas had a home in town on Jacobs Street, directly across the street east from the Jacobs house, the oldest residence in Albany. He also had a home on the ranch north of Albany. He only served on the bank board for two years. (Info from The First 100 Years)
West Texas lost its last real old pioneer new Year's morning.
Phin W. Reynolds, who has lived 92 or his 94 years in Throdkmorton, Shackelford and Eastland counties, died Tuesday morning. Death was from advanced years. He died at his home in Albany where he had resided for the past 61 years.
Old time friends and relatives of the Reynolds and Matthews families from many Texas cities gathered here Wednesday for the funeral service, conducted at the First Baptist Church. Burial was in the Albany Cemetery.
P. W. Reynolds was born in Shelby county, Texas, August 3, 1857, and was the last surviving son of Barber Watkins Reynolds. The Reynolds brothers had been identified with the cattle industry in West Texas for the past 75 years.
When Mr. Reynolds was two years old the family moved to Stephens county and settled near the site of Breckenridge. In 1864 after the Comanche and Kiowa Indians made the big raid down Elm Creek in Young County, killing 15 people and carrying seven women and children into captivity, the Reynolds family forted up with other settlers at old Fort Davis in Stephens County. Phin W. Reynolds was the last survivor of the settlers who occcupied that old fort for the two years of its existance. In 1866 the family moved to the old Stone Ranch, a western outpost on the frontier in Throckmorton County, which is now Lambshead ranch.
When his brother, George T. Reynolds, was seriously injured in a fight with Indians in Haskell county, west of the Stone Ranch, and the Indians had raided and driven off some 500 cattle from their range, the family moved to near Fort Griffin in 1867 shortly after the fort's establishment.
More Indian trouble caused them to move to Parker county two years later. In 1872 they moved to the state of Colorado, but in 1875 returned to the Clear Fork of the Brazos in Throckmorton County.
It was on the Clear Fork that the Reynolds and Matthews family formed a partnership in the cattle business, and upon the dissolution of the partnership in 1885 the Reynolds brothers formed the Reynolds Cattle Co.,
which has since been well known as one of the largest cattle and ranching concerns in West Texas and has operated ranches in North Dakota and Montana as well as in Texas.
Phin Reynolds was the last survivor of the original stockholders of the company.
Mr. Reynolds was one of the few old trail drivers left. As trail boss, he took herds up the trail for Reynolds and Matthews, and later for the Reynolds Cattle Co. He drove the trail to Hunewell and Dodge City, Kansas, to the state of Colorado, and the long trail to Nort Dakota, and trailed a herd from Billings, Montana, for 300 miles to near the Canadian border.
He possessed an accurate memory and his trail driving experiences on the frontier were published by the West Texas Historical association year
book in 1945. He has furnished much valuable information to historians doing research work on frontier life.
In 1890 Mr. Reynolds moved his family to Albany, and acquired a large ranch just north of town. He later acquired holdings in Scurry county, but retired from the ranch business in 1921. He was manager of the Cisco Cottol Oil Company from it establishment in 1897 until it sold in 1922, and he was a past president of the First Nation Bank in Albany.
Mr. Reynolds was a Mason and was a member of the First Baptist
Church of Albany since 1892. Until some two or three years ago Mr. Reynolds was a frequent visitor down town in Albany. His accurate memory of old times, and stories of early cowboy and frontier life are well remembered by his friends.
Albany News
January 33, 1952
pg. 1
Mr. Phineas Reynolds married Roseannah Matthews. Mr. Phineas had a home in town on Jacobs Street, directly across the street east from the Jacobs house, the oldest residence in Albany. He also had a home on the ranch north of Albany. He only served on the bank board for two years. (Info from The First 100 Years)
Phin W. Reynolds, who has lived 92 or his 94 years in Throdkmorton, Shackelford and Eastland counties, died Tuesday morning. Death was from advanced years. He died at his home in Albany where he had resided for the past 61 years.
Old time friends and relatives of the Reynolds and Matthews families from many Texas cities gathered here Wednesday for the funeral service, conducted at the First Baptist Church. Burial was in the Albany Cemetery.
P. W. Reynolds was born in Shelby county, Texas, August 3, 1857, and was the last surviving son of Barber Watkins Reynolds. The Reynolds brothers had been identified with the cattle industry in West Texas for the past 75 years.
When Mr. Reynolds was two years old the family moved to Stephens county and settled near the site of Breckenridge. In 1864 after the Comanche and Kiowa Indians made the big raid down Elm Creek in Young County, killing 15 people and carrying seven women and children into captivity, the Reynolds family forted up with other settlers at old Fort Davis in Stephens County. Phin W. Reynolds was the last survivor of the settlers who occcupied that old fort for the two years of its existance. In 1866 the family moved to the old Stone Ranch, a western outpost on the frontier in Throckmorton County, which is now Lambshead ranch.
When his brother, George T. Reynolds, was seriously injured in a fight with Indians in Haskell county, west of the Stone Ranch, and the Indians had raided and driven off some 500 cattle from their range, the family moved to near Fort Griffin in 1867 shortly after the fort's establishment.
More Indian trouble caused them to move to Parker county two years later. In 1872 they moved to the state of Colorado, but in 1875 returned to the Clear Fork of the Brazos in Throckmorton County.
It was on the Clear Fork that the Reynolds and Matthews family formed a partnership in the cattle business, and upon the dissolution of the partnership in 1885 the Reynolds brothers formed the Reynolds Cattle Co.,
which has since been well known as one of the largest cattle and ranching concerns in West Texas and has operated ranches in North Dakota and Montana as well as in Texas.
Phin Reynolds was the last survivor of the original stockholders of the company.
Mr. Reynolds was one of the few old trail drivers left. As trail boss, he took herds up the trail for Reynolds and Matthews, and later for the Reynolds Cattle Co. He drove the trail to Hunewell and Dodge City, Kansas, to the state of Colorado, and the long trail to Nort Dakota, and trailed a herd from Billings, Montana, for 300 miles to near the Canadian border.
He possessed an accurate memory and his trail driving experiences on the frontier were published by the West Texas Historical association year
book in 1945. He has furnished much valuable information to historians doing research work on frontier life.
In 1890 Mr. Reynolds moved his family to Albany, and acquired a large ranch just north of town. He later acquired holdings in Scurry county, but retired from the ranch business in 1921. He was manager of the Cisco Cottol Oil Company from it establishment in 1897 until it sold in 1922, and he was a past president of the First Nation Bank in Albany.
Mr. Reynolds was a Mason and was a member of the First Baptist
Church of Albany since 1892. Until some two or three years ago Mr. Reynolds was a frequent visitor down town in Albany. His accurate memory of old times, and stories of early cowboy and frontier life are well remembered by his friends.
Albany News
January 33, 1952
pg. 1
Mr. Phineas Reynolds married Roseannah Matthews. Mr. Phineas had a home in town on Jacobs Street, directly across the street east from the Jacobs house, the oldest residence in Albany. He also had a home on the ranch north of Albany. He only served on the bank board for two years. (Info from The First 100 Years)
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