Floyd Keen Reynolds^[1]

1905 -

• Name	Floyd Keen Reynolds
  Born	1905	Pittsylvania County, Virginia   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Notes	Floyd was my playmate, for he was nearer my age than any of the other siblings. We played in the sandbox together and built tree houses together. We built one tree house in the grove behind our home, a tree house which was higher off the ground than our two-storey home was high. Of course, Floyd did most of the work. He found an old telephone and connected it to the wire to our phone at the home, and the tree phone worked! When Daddy learned about it, the phone had to come down from our tree house! It was a good phone! Floyd and I would "break" a calf so that we could hitch it to a Floyd-made cart. I loved Floyd dearly and was his slave - until I wanted to assert my own mind. Floyd went to Hargrave Military Academy (then C.T.S.) and to Bluefield College for a while. Later he took training for servicing dial telephones, a new device in those days. Christine Reynolds Stone, daughter of Keene Johnson Reynolds s/o William Garrett Reynolds
  Person ID	I8305	Devin Timber | William Devin Progeny, Margret Devin Reynolds Descendants
  Last Modified	13 Jan 2011

  
  

  Father	Keene Johnson Reynolds,   b. 30 Nov 1861, Pittsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 17 Jan 1926, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Mary Susan "Molly" Brumfield
  Married	15 Nov 1883	Pittsylvania County, Virginia
  	On November 14, 1883 when Daddy was nearly 22 and Mother was sixteen, they were married at her home, "The Elms" near what is now Renan. Mother's family had moved from the Greenpond-Hollywood neighborhood to Renan in 1882. The first year of their marriage, Daddy and Mother lived with his mother, Betsy Blair Reynolds, and farmed with her. The next year, they moved to the land Grandfather Brumfield had given them at Renan. The home they built was located below what later became the highway. Mother had wanted to be on high ground, however, the house was placed just a few yards from one of the best springs anywhere around and, in the days when water was brought in by bucketsful and a springhouse was the only means of cooling food, having a spring nearby was a real asset. Published family history by Christine Reynolds Stone, daughter of Keene Johnson Reynolds, s/o William Garrett Reynolds; can be seen at Danville Public Library 2nd floor, genealogy room, Danville, Virginia
  Family ID	F2774	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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• Sources

  [S67727] Mary Frances Reynolds Eggleston. Published Family History of Keene Johnson Reynolds, s/o William Garrett Reynolds s/o Allen Gilmer Reynolds, as told by Christine Stone, daughter of Keene Johnson Reynolds [S67727] Mary Frances Reynolds Eggleston. Floyd age 5 found in 1910 VA Census Pittsylvania Co, Staunton River District other members shown in 1900 VA Census.