General Notes

From the Warren County Genealogical Society newsletter, Jan.-Feb. 2003, in Death Record Abstractions from The Advocate-Tribune, Indianola, Iowa, 1898:
October 27, 1898, page 6, col. 4: REYNOLDS, Eleanor ATKESON was born in West Virginia, May 6, 1811. When 13 years of age moved with her parents to Vermillion county, Illinois. She was married to Rev. John REYNOLDS, August 15, 1834. They had four daughters and two sons, only two are now living. Amanda, wife of Enoch GRAHAM and Ella, wife of B. F. YOUNG. Mrs. Margaret BARR, a daughter of Mr. REYNOLDS by a former marriage is still living. Mr. REYNOLDS and his family moved from Illinois to Indianola, Iowa in August 1854 where he died October 27, 1876. She died October 7, 1898, aged 87 years, five months and one day. The funeral was from B. F. YOUNG's two miles west of town, Sunday, October 9, 1898.