"Lewis and Martha J. (Terwilliger) Reynolds, the former a native of Botetourt county, Virginia, and the latter of Ohio. As young people they removed to Indiana, settling there in pioneer times, and in Benton county they were married. There they began their domestic life, continuing their residence in that county until 1843, when they came to Iowa, settling first at Muscatine, where they lived for a year. They then removed to a place four miles east of Eddyville, in Wapello county, settling at the town of Kirkville. Lewis Reynolds was among the first to file a claim for a farm in this locality and he and his wife spent their remaining days here. He was born May 7, 1815, and died at the age of eighty years, July 29, 1895. Throughout his entire life Lewis Reynolds carried on general agricultural pursuits and at one time was the owner of two hundred and forty acres. His father was a soldier of the War of 1812. Both Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds were members of the Methodist church and Christian principles guided their lives at all times. The latter died about the spring of 1885, when sixty five years of age." History of Marion County, Iowa And its PeopleJohn W. Wright, ed., Vol II. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.Chicago, 1915.
"Lewis and Martha J. (Terwilliger) Reynolds, the former a native of Botetourt county, Virginia, and the latter of Ohio. As young people they removed to Indiana, settling there in pioneer times, and in Benton county they were married. There they began their domestic life, continuing their residence in that county until 1843, when they came to Iowa, settling first at Muscatine, where they lived for a year. They then removed to a place four miles east of Eddyville, in Wapello county, settling at the town of Kirkville. Lewis Reynolds was among the first to file a claim for a farm in this locality and he and his wife spent their remaining days here. He was born May 7, 1815, and died at the age of eighty years, July 29, 1895. Throughout his entire life Lewis Reynolds carried on general agricultural pursuits and at one time was the owner of two hundred and forty acres. His father was a soldier of the War of 1812. Both Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds were members of the Methodist church and Christian principles guided their lives at all times. The latter died about the spring of 1885, when sixty five years of age." History of Marion County, Iowa And its PeopleJohn W. Wright, ed., Vol II. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.Chicago, 1915.
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