Joseph Boyer Reynolds.
Born: 02 Jun 1806 in Stephensburg, Barren, Kentucky.
Died: 24 May 1866 at Emporia, Lyon, Kansas.

Father: Nathaniel Reynolds.
Mother: Catherine Vernon.

Spouse: Phoebe Bush.
Married: 02 Jun 1829 at Hart County, Kentucky.
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Emporia News, Saturday, May 26, 1866; p.3, c.3
Drowned.
A gentleman named Reynolds, from near Eureka, on Fall river in Greenwood county, was drowned in the Cottonwood, on Thursday, at Soden's ford, south of town, while attempting to cross in a canoe.

He had been to town to make some purchases, and had also brought flour at Soden's Mill. The river was high, and he left his team on the south side. A canoe was kept just above the mill dam for the purpose of crossing when the stream is too high to ford. Into this he had loaded his flour and groceries, and was being taken across by Mr. S.D. Gray. When near the middle of the stream the canoe became unmanageable and moved rapidly toward the dam, over which there is considerable fall.

When some thirty feet from the dam, Mr. Gray gave up the idea of getting the canoe out of the rapid current to make a landing, and jumped out, Mr. Reynolds following him. Both were washed down to within a few feet of the dam. The bottom of the stream sloping up to the top of the dam, they were enabled to gain a footing. But neither were good swimmers, and they could not get out of the current.

An attempt to swim out was sure to wash them over the dam. In this position Mr. Gray was rescued by means of a long pole in the hands of Harrison Malone. Mr Reynolds was further in the stream, and just as the pole was about to be reached to him his foothold gave way and he went over the dam. He went under and came back up twice, where the falling water forms an eddy.

He was afterwards seen below the eddy, when he was sinking for the last time. We learn he was a new-comer to Greenwood county, and that he leaves a wife and seven children. Search was being made for his body, but without success, at last accounts.