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    Bonnie Louise Wells

    Female


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    Generation: 1

    1. 1.  Bonnie Louise Wells was born in in Prob. Pitts. Co., VA (daughter of Stewart Swanson "ToJo" Wells and Clara May Adkins).

      Bonnie married A.R. Vaughan, Jr.. [Group Sheet]

      Children:
      1. Cameron Stewart Vaughan was born in in Prob. Pitts. Co., VA.

    Generation: 2

    1. 2.  Stewart Swanson "ToJo" Wells was born on 23 Dec 1923 (son of Eddie Laurens Wells and Claira Love Reynolds); died on 31 Dec 2004; was buried in Highland Burial Park , Danville, Virginia.

      Stewart married Clara May Adkins. Clara (daughter of Henry George Adkins and Fannie Alma Doss) was born in Unknown; died in 1978; was buried in Highland Burial Park , Danville, Virginia. [Group Sheet]


    2. 3.  Clara May Adkins was born in Unknown (daughter of Henry George Adkins and Fannie Alma Doss); died in 1978; was buried in Highland Burial Park , Danville, Virginia.
      Children:
      1. Living
      2. Russell Stewart Wells
      3. Mary Elizabeth Wells was born in C 1945 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
      4. 1. Bonnie Louise Wells was born in in Prob. Pitts. Co., VA.


    Generation: 3

    1. 4.  Eddie Laurens Wells was born on 21 Nov 1891 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A. (son of Frank Archer Wells and Sarah Frances "Sally" Hughes); died on 26 May 1985 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; was buried in County Line Christian Church, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A..

      Notes:

      Buried:


      Claira Love Reynolds, Eddie Well's wife, is the 10th child of Nancy "Nannie" & "Bart" Reynolds.

      Eddie married Claira Love Reynolds on 22 Feb 1916 in Callands, Virginia Henry County. Claira (daughter of William Barton "Bart" Reynolds and Nancy "Nannie" Reynolds) was born on 28 Apr 1892 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; died on 03 Oct 1967 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; was buried in County Line Christian Church, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]


    2. 5.  Claira Love ReynoldsClaira Love Reynolds was born on 28 Apr 1892 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A. (daughter of William Barton "Bart" Reynolds and Nancy "Nannie" Reynolds); died on 03 Oct 1967 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; was buried in County Line Christian Church, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A..

      Notes:


      Previous references to Claira Love have shown her name spelled as Clara. Her headstone located in County Line Christian Church Cemetery in Henry County, Va has her name spelled Claira. I suppose she knew best how to spell her name.

      Sources for this information are taken from Early Southside Virginia Families who document source information for each individual listed in this family.

      Buried:


      Photograph of head stone at County Line Christian Church Cemetery taken by Mary Frances Reynolds Eggleston.

      Children:
      1. William E. Wells was born about 1916 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; died before 2004.
      2. Adele Wells was born about 1918 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; died before 2004.
      3. Cordie Wells was born in 1920; died in 2001; was buried in Boaz F. Cemetery, HW41, Dry Fork, Va.
      4. Hazel Wells was born about 1921; died before 2004.
      5. 2. Stewart Swanson "ToJo" Wells was born on 23 Dec 1923; died on 31 Dec 2004; was buried in Highland Burial Park , Danville, Virginia.
      6. Iris Arlene Wells was born on 22 Feb 1927 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; died on 26 May 2009 in South Boston, Halifax, Virginia U.S.A..
      7. Raleigh Talmage "Pinchum" Wells was born in 1931; died in 2007.
      8. Rev. Clyde Wells

    3. 6.  Henry George Adkins was born in 1907 (son of Joseph Cephus Adkins and Julia Graves Rigney).

      Henry married Fannie Alma Doss. [Group Sheet]


    4. 7.  Fannie Alma Doss
      Children:
      1. 3. Clara May Adkins was born in Unknown; died in 1978; was buried in Highland Burial Park , Danville, Virginia.
      2. William Edgar "Bill" Adkins
      3. Muriel Adkins was born on 13 Feb 1935; died on 03 Jan 2010 in Danville Reginal Medical Center; was buried on 05 Jun 2010 in Danville Memorial Gardens, 58 W, Danville, Virginia.


    Generation: 4

    1. 8.  Frank Archer Wells was born on 19 Jan 1860 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A. (son of Matthew Wells and Mary E. Dickson); died on 15 Jan 1931 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; was buried in Holley Family Cemetery; Liberty Baptist Church, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A..

      Frank married Sarah Frances "Sally" Hughes on 27 Feb 1889. Sarah (daughter of William Henry Hughes and Clarissa A. Catherine Hutson) was born on 16 Sep 1859 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; died on 20 Feb 1947 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; was buried in Holley Family Cemetery; Liberty Baptist Church, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]


    2. 9.  Sarah Frances "Sally" Hughes was born on 16 Sep 1859 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A. (daughter of William Henry Hughes and Clarissa A. Catherine Hutson); died on 20 Feb 1947 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; was buried in Holley Family Cemetery; Liberty Baptist Church, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A..
      Children:
      1. 4. Eddie Laurens Wells was born on 21 Nov 1891 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; died on 26 May 1985 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; was buried in County Line Christian Church, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A..
      2. Bennie Wells was born in 1896.
      3. Annie Lou Wells was born on 20 Jun 1898 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia; died on 11 Sep 1978 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; was buried in Holley Family Cemetery; Liberty Baptist Church, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A..

    3. 10.  William Barton "Bart" ReynoldsWilliam Barton "Bart" Reynolds was born on 28 Sep 1848 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A. (son of Allen Gilmer Reynolds and Martha Ann Jackson); died on 06 Sep 1919 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; was buried in Private Cemetery on Reynolds Farm.

      Notes:

      Examination of the Census Records for 1900 and 1910 show that Bart and his family are closely situated to the Joshua Columbus Manning's (married his sister Mary Permelia "Bettie" Reynolds. They are shown within two households of one-another on each Census.

      Born 28 Sep 1848 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, William Barton Reynolds, was the fourth child of Allen Gilmer Reynolds and Martha Ann Jackson. Bart was named for his father's brother, William Barton Reynolds, Sr. (Barton), a testament of his father's regard for his brother. The name Barton first appears in our family when Bart's grandmother, Sarah Philpott named Bart's uncle in 1827, after her great-great grandmother, Elizabeth Barton Smoot, born in 1701.

      "Bart" became his 'distinguishing name', very early. He had two older brothers, Levi and James Samuel, each named for his mother's father and his mother's brother; each instrumental in her upbringing. Older sister Tabitha Ann and younger siblings John Henry, Cephus Wilson, Elizabeth "Bettie' and Texanna composed Bart's family. Texanna, was born after her mother's brother moved to Texas, and was so named to commerate the event.

      We find no evidence of Bart serving in an official capacity during the Civil War. Too young, to go away, he served at home, with a thousand chores and fear everywhere. His uncles, served in the Home Guard, their sons, so many of them; gone to fight. Loved-ones left at home, to worry and fear. Bart grows into manhood while the war rages and claims his cousins. His brother, Levi, leaves home in 1860 to travel to Pennsylvania and marry; Levi is 23, Bart 12. Brother James Samuel is 16, John Henry is 5 and Cephus is 2 years old. Sister Bettie is 9; Tabitha is 14 and Texanna is 7. Levi is the only one of his siblings who will leave Pittsylvania County to make his home.

      During his 25th year, Bart marries the very attractive 18 year old Nancy Reynolds in about 1873. His brother James Samuel "Jim" marries her sister Bet about the same time. They knew them well. The girls are the daughters of his Uncle Barton and Aunt Rutha Reynolds. Three other of the girls also married cousins.

      Bart and Nancy farmed on Barn Road in Callands. A family photograph of their log cabin, taken in 1898 shows all of their children except the last one, Buster, who was in his mother's belly for the occasion. Bart is 50, Nancy, 44. They have buried two newborn babies in the last 3 years, and she is pregnant again. Their private cemetery marks their sorrows; two infants graves, marked with fieldstones, In another six years they will bury their oldest daughter. Dead before her prime, grieved by her parents, siblings and all of her grandparents, cousins, and a husband.

      Weddings and births, christenings and parties mark the years as they pass. They have 10 children living before 1900; eight will survive into middle age and most will bring home their own babies.

      Bart has had diabetes for a long time. He lost his right leg below the knee; an infection that would not heal. The disease would take its toll before his death, progressing in a now predictable sequence of events; a disease that would trickle down through his progeny for the next 110 years.

      By 1910 the next generation has begun, and the last generation is a beloved memory. Bart's mother and father are dead. Nancy's mother and father died with a year of each other, nearly 20 years earlier. Bart's oldest son has a son; his eldest daughter is dead. Molly too has a young son, and is about to remarry in Norfolk; Essie is settled with several children; Missy is about to have her first baby; Kate 29, has moved to North Carolina; Jim, 25, is courting Sally Fannie Wells, and Claira and Ruth are striking 18 and 20 year-olds, as yet unclaimed by mates. Ford is 23 and Buster, his baby son is only 12 years old.

      The next 100 years see his progeny increase, and the legacy of this man's integrity, determination, faith, love and respect find its way from his genes to ours.
      ~ Mary Frances Reynolds Eggleston
      mfeggleston@gmail.com






      William married Nancy "Nannie" Reynolds about 1873-74. Nancy (daughter of William Barton Reynolds, Sr. and Ruth Ann "Rutha" Oakes) was born on 03 Jun 1854 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; died on 23 Jan 1924 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]


    4. 11.  Nancy "Nannie" ReynoldsNancy "Nannie" Reynolds was born on 03 Jun 1854 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A. (daughter of William Barton Reynolds, Sr. and Ruth Ann "Rutha" Oakes); died on 23 Jan 1924 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A..
      Children:
      1. Claude Holmes Reynolds was born on 28 Aug 1875 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; died on 16 Mar 1949 in Spray, Rockingham Co., NC; was buried on 18 Mar 1949 in Overlook Cemetery, Eden, Rockingham Co., NC.
      2. Leveria Ann "Leanna" Reynolds was born on 08 Apr 1877 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia; died in Feb 1904 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia; was buried in Private Cemetery on Reynolds Farm, Barn Road, Callands, Virginia.
      3. Mary Lou "Molly" Reynolds was born on 19 Jan 1879 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; died in 1920 in Danville, Virginia U.S.A.; was buried in Reynolds Farm Private Henry Co., Virginia U.S.A..
      4. Nannie Kate Reynolds was born on 13 Aug 1881 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; died on 2 Dec 1964 in Burlington, North Carolina .
      5. Essie Maude Geneva Reynolds was born on 10 Sep 1883 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A..
      6. James Allen Reynolds was born on 30 Jan 1885.
      7. Ford Cephus Reynolds was born on 28 Oct 1887; died on 20 May 1956 in High Point, Guilford, North Carolina U.S.A.; was buried on 22 May 1956 in Highland Burial Park , Danville, Virginia.
      8. Martha Ellen Reynolds was born on 27 Sep 1889 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; died on 09 Sep 1965 in Danville, Virginia U.S.A.; was buried in Holley Family Cemetery, Liberty Baptist Church, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A..
      9. Ruth Mae Reynolds was born on 23 Sep 1890 in Henry County, Virginia U.S.A.; died on 02 Jun 1976 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; was buried in County Line Christian Church, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A..
      10. 5. Claira Love Reynolds was born on 28 Apr 1892 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; died on 03 Oct 1967 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; was buried in County Line Christian Church, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A..
      11. William J. Reynolds was born on 30 Jul 1895 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; died on 16 Aug 1895 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; was buried in Reynolds Cemetery marked with a fieldstone.
      12. Grace L. Reynolds was born on 17 Jun 1897 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; died on 28 Jun 1897 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; was buried in Reynolds Cemetery marked with a fieldstone.
      13. John Sam "Buster" Reynolds was born on 03 Dec 1898 in Marlowe homeplace, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia U.S.A.; died on 19 Jul 1952.

    5. 12.  Joseph Cephus Adkins was born in 1868 (son of Caleb Adkins and Almira G. Reynolds); died in 1912.

      Joseph married Julia Graves Rigney on 27 Aug 1888. Julia was born in 1871. [Group Sheet]


    6. 13.  Julia Graves Rigney was born in 1871.
      Children:
      1. Virginia W. Adkins was born in 1889.
      2. Elvira Jane "Elva" Adkins was born on 30 Jul 1891; died on 04 Jul 1973.
      3. Joseph Hubert Adkins was born in 1892 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia; died in 1960 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia; was buried in Worlds, Rt. 807, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia.
      4. Anna E. "Annie" Adkins was born in 1896.
      5. Mary C. Adkins was born in 1898.
      6. Forrest Green Adkins was born about 1900.
      7. Ercie Adkins was born in 1903; died in 1946.
      8. 6. Henry George Adkins was born in 1907.
      9. Mildred A. Adkins was born about 1910.
      10. Eugene E. Adkins was born about 1912.