Warren Ford Reynolds (1823-1900) -- A Seventh Generation American...
Warren Ford Reynolds was born 7 June 1823 in Avon, Livingston County, New York, the son of Asa Douglas Reynolds and Betsy Artlip. He died 10 July 1900 in South Cottonwood, Salt Lake County, Utah and was buried 13 July 1900 in Murray City Cemetery, Murray, Salt Lake County, Utah.
Warren married Edna Maria Merrell on 3 January, 1846 in Oakland County, Michigan, and with her and her family left that state and joined the westward migration of the Mormon pioneers in their epoch trek across the plains to Utah. Ten children were born of this union. On the 28th of June, 1857 Warren married Scottish Mormon convert, Christina McNeil as a plural wife. Seven children came from their forty-seven year marriage. Warren Ford's youth was experienced in a rural setting on a farm just south of the town of Avon, New York in the fertile Genesee Valley. He was born the third son and the eighth of eleven children to a sixth generation Yankee father and a third American generation Dutch mother. His father, a determined Free Mason and former Baptist, died when Warren was just eleven. Soon after his father's death the family, having recently suffered the loss of it's older generation, as well as it's patriarch, took up it's roots from the Genesee and moved to the Michigan frontier. Over a period of just a few years, because of deaths and marriages, the family found itself scattered for the first time in its 200 year American history. A more detailed account of this important family period can be found in my PDF work on "Asa Douglas and Betsy Artlip Reynolds." After arriving in Utah Territory, Warren staked out a homestead on Big Cottonwood Creek between Holladay and Murray and raised his two families in unison and close proximity and there spent the remainder of his life. |
The Life of Warren Ford Reynolds
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