Married on April 13, 1831 in Clarke Co, GA
The Georgia Enterprise, March 21, 1873
DEATH OF JUDGE REYNOLDS
On Wednesday morning, March 19, at 10 o'clock, the spirit of Hon. PERMEDUS REYNOLDS left its tenement of mortality after several months suffering from dropsically effusion. His distress from shortness of breath was at times intense; but the indomitable will which characterized his whole life, sustained him to the last, and disease only prostrated him when his system had been completely wrecked.
Born in Clark County, Georgia, in 1805, his father removed to Walton,
while Permedus was but a youth and the country afforded meager facilities for his education; but his native mind and unswerving devotion to the right first, last and always, soon triumphed over all unfavorable surroundings, and the people ever attested their appreciation of his worth by calling him continuously to serve in the halls of Legislation for more than a generation.
Yet his brightest and best traits were concealed from the public eye. Firm as an iron wall against all attempts to win his consent to public or private
wrong, in domestic life, and in the inner court of his sympathies, his heart
was tender and easily touched as the affection of a little child. During his
last illness the writer was with him much of the time, and knew his deeper feelings perhaps as well as any one outside his immediate family. While he felt strong regrets for the sorrow his departures must inflict upon his children and the wife of his youth, for himself he desired to depart and be with his Lord. The faith which had been his guide in life since early youth he united with the Primitive Baptist Church at Harris Spring, was his support in death; and with no confidence in the flesh, he saw heaven opened in the hour of his departure and expressing a wish to "go up higher" he calmly fell asleep in Jesus, realizing the fulfillment of the prayer expressed in his favorite hymn to which he frequently referred which is the following:
O Land of rest, for thee I sigh,
When will the moment come,
When I shall lay my armor by,
And dwell with Christ at home?
No tranquil joys on earth I know
No peaceful sheltering dome
This world's wilderness of woe,
This world is not my home.
To Jesus Christ I sought for rest,
He bade me cease to roam,
And fly for succor to his breast,
And he'd conduct me home.
I should at once have quit the field,
Where foes and fury roam;
But ah! my passport was not sealed,
I could not yet go home.
When by affliction sharply tried,
I view the gaping tomb,
Although I dread death's chilling tide,
Yet still I sigh for home.
Weary of wandering round and round,
This vale of sin and gloom,
I long to leave the unhallowed ground,
And dwell with Christ at home.
**All initial research done by F. Bundy (Contributor #47078032)
** A special thanks to Shirley Ann Bennett Barham (Contributor #46985785) for both probate records for Judge Reynolds & burial location** Also, Deborah R. Dial for finding the location of the cemetery. Debbie is:
Genealogist/Historical Archivist
Newton County Historical Society,Covington, Georgia.
The Georgia Enterprise, March 21, 1873
DEATH OF JUDGE REYNOLDS
On Wednesday morning, March 19, at 10 o'clock, the spirit of Hon. PERMEDUS REYNOLDS left its tenement of mortality after several months suffering from dropsically effusion. His distress from shortness of breath was at times intense; but the indomitable will which characterized his whole life, sustained him to the last, and disease only prostrated him when his system had been completely wrecked.
Born in Clark County, Georgia, in 1805, his father removed to Walton,
while Permedus was but a youth and the country afforded meager facilities for his education; but his native mind and unswerving devotion to the right first, last and always, soon triumphed over all unfavorable surroundings, and the people ever attested their appreciation of his worth by calling him continuously to serve in the halls of Legislation for more than a generation.
Yet his brightest and best traits were concealed from the public eye. Firm as an iron wall against all attempts to win his consent to public or private
wrong, in domestic life, and in the inner court of his sympathies, his heart
was tender and easily touched as the affection of a little child. During his
last illness the writer was with him much of the time, and knew his deeper feelings perhaps as well as any one outside his immediate family. While he felt strong regrets for the sorrow his departures must inflict upon his children and the wife of his youth, for himself he desired to depart and be with his Lord. The faith which had been his guide in life since early youth he united with the Primitive Baptist Church at Harris Spring, was his support in death; and with no confidence in the flesh, he saw heaven opened in the hour of his departure and expressing a wish to "go up higher" he calmly fell asleep in Jesus, realizing the fulfillment of the prayer expressed in his favorite hymn to which he frequently referred which is the following:
O Land of rest, for thee I sigh,
When will the moment come,
When I shall lay my armor by,
And dwell with Christ at home?
No tranquil joys on earth I know
No peaceful sheltering dome
This world's wilderness of woe,
This world is not my home.
To Jesus Christ I sought for rest,
He bade me cease to roam,
And fly for succor to his breast,
And he'd conduct me home.
I should at once have quit the field,
Where foes and fury roam;
But ah! my passport was not sealed,
I could not yet go home.
When by affliction sharply tried,
I view the gaping tomb,
Although I dread death's chilling tide,
Yet still I sigh for home.
Weary of wandering round and round,
This vale of sin and gloom,
I long to leave the unhallowed ground,
And dwell with Christ at home.
**All initial research done by F. Bundy (Contributor #47078032)
** A special thanks to Shirley Ann Bennett Barham (Contributor #46985785) for both probate records for Judge Reynolds & burial location** Also, Deborah R. Dial for finding the location of the cemetery. Debbie is:
Genealogist/Historical Archivist
Newton County Historical Society,Covington, Georgia.
Married on April 13, 1831 in Clarke Co, GA
The Georgia Enterprise, March 21, 1873
DEATH OF JUDGE REYNOLDS
On Wednesday morning, March 19, at 10 o'clock, the spirit of Hon. PERMEDUS REYNOLDS left its tenement of mortality after several months suffering from dropsically effusion. His distress from shortness of breath was at times intense; but the indomitable will which characterized his whole life, sustained him to the last, and disease only prostrated him when his system had been completely wrecked.
Born in Clark County, Georgia, in 1805, his father removed to Walton,
while Permedus was but a youth and the country afforded meager facilities for his education; but his native mind and unswerving devotion to the right first, last and always, soon triumphed over all unfavorable surroundings, and the people ever attested their appreciation of his worth by calling him continuously to serve in the halls of Legislation for more than a generation.
Yet his brightest and best traits were concealed from the public eye. Firm as an iron wall against all attempts to win his consent to public or private
wrong, in domestic life, and in the inner court of his sympathies, his heart
was tender and easily touched as the affection of a little child. During his
last illness the writer was with him much of the time, and knew his deeper feelings perhaps as well as any one outside his immediate family. While he felt strong regrets for the sorrow his departures must inflict upon his children and the wife of his youth, for himself he desired to depart and be with his Lord. The faith which had been his guide in life since early youth he united with the Primitive Baptist Church at Harris Spring, was his support in death; and with no confidence in the flesh, he saw heaven opened in the hour of his departure and expressing a wish to "go up higher" he calmly fell asleep in Jesus, realizing the fulfillment of the prayer expressed in his favorite hymn to which he frequently referred which is the following:
O Land of rest, for thee I sigh,
When will the moment come,
When I shall lay my armor by,
And dwell with Christ at home?
No tranquil joys on earth I know
No peaceful sheltering dome
This world's wilderness of woe,
This world is not my home.
To Jesus Christ I sought for rest,
He bade me cease to roam,
And fly for succor to his breast,
And he'd conduct me home.
I should at once have quit the field,
Where foes and fury roam;
But ah! my passport was not sealed,
I could not yet go home.
When by affliction sharply tried,
I view the gaping tomb,
Although I dread death's chilling tide,
Yet still I sigh for home.
Weary of wandering round and round,
This vale of sin and gloom,
I long to leave the unhallowed ground,
And dwell with Christ at home.
**All initial research done by F. Bundy (Contributor #47078032)
** A special thanks to Shirley Ann Bennett Barham (Contributor #46985785) for both probate records for Judge Reynolds & burial location** Also, Deborah R. Dial for finding the location of the cemetery. Debbie is:
Genealogist/Historical Archivist
Newton County Historical Society,Covington, Georgia.
The Georgia Enterprise, March 21, 1873
DEATH OF JUDGE REYNOLDS
On Wednesday morning, March 19, at 10 o'clock, the spirit of Hon. PERMEDUS REYNOLDS left its tenement of mortality after several months suffering from dropsically effusion. His distress from shortness of breath was at times intense; but the indomitable will which characterized his whole life, sustained him to the last, and disease only prostrated him when his system had been completely wrecked.
Born in Clark County, Georgia, in 1805, his father removed to Walton,
while Permedus was but a youth and the country afforded meager facilities for his education; but his native mind and unswerving devotion to the right first, last and always, soon triumphed over all unfavorable surroundings, and the people ever attested their appreciation of his worth by calling him continuously to serve in the halls of Legislation for more than a generation.
Yet his brightest and best traits were concealed from the public eye. Firm as an iron wall against all attempts to win his consent to public or private
wrong, in domestic life, and in the inner court of his sympathies, his heart
was tender and easily touched as the affection of a little child. During his
last illness the writer was with him much of the time, and knew his deeper feelings perhaps as well as any one outside his immediate family. While he felt strong regrets for the sorrow his departures must inflict upon his children and the wife of his youth, for himself he desired to depart and be with his Lord. The faith which had been his guide in life since early youth he united with the Primitive Baptist Church at Harris Spring, was his support in death; and with no confidence in the flesh, he saw heaven opened in the hour of his departure and expressing a wish to "go up higher" he calmly fell asleep in Jesus, realizing the fulfillment of the prayer expressed in his favorite hymn to which he frequently referred which is the following:
O Land of rest, for thee I sigh,
When will the moment come,
When I shall lay my armor by,
And dwell with Christ at home?
No tranquil joys on earth I know
No peaceful sheltering dome
This world's wilderness of woe,
This world is not my home.
To Jesus Christ I sought for rest,
He bade me cease to roam,
And fly for succor to his breast,
And he'd conduct me home.
I should at once have quit the field,
Where foes and fury roam;
But ah! my passport was not sealed,
I could not yet go home.
When by affliction sharply tried,
I view the gaping tomb,
Although I dread death's chilling tide,
Yet still I sigh for home.
Weary of wandering round and round,
This vale of sin and gloom,
I long to leave the unhallowed ground,
And dwell with Christ at home.
**All initial research done by F. Bundy (Contributor #47078032)
** A special thanks to Shirley Ann Bennett Barham (Contributor #46985785) for both probate records for Judge Reynolds & burial location** Also, Deborah R. Dial for finding the location of the cemetery. Debbie is:
Genealogist/Historical Archivist
Newton County Historical Society,Covington, Georgia.
Family Members
Children
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Mary Ann Reynolds Walker
1832–1865
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Frances Elizabeth "Fannie" Reynolds Merritt
1835 – unknown
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Nancy "Nannie" Reynolds Maddox
1838–1890
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Margaret Ann Reynolds Crocker
1844–1926
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Fletcher Purmedus Reynolds
1845–1893
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Ada Reynolds Alexander
1848–1925
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Emily Reynolds
unknown–1879
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Martha V "Mattie" Reynolds Russell
unknown–1888
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