Betty McReynolds

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1947, 2345 Ashley av, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas

Notes:

Residence:
McReynolds Betty r2345 Ashley av
McReynolds Calvis S. (Freda) press opr Thos M. Royal & Co, h565 Schwarner
McReynolds Macie (wid Felix C) h 2345 Ashley av
McReynolds, Oliver (Anna L.) dept wwkr Mag Pet Co, h 1910 Turon
McReynolds Rufus A. (Sue M) hlpr GSU Co h 1536 Penn Av
Sue M. Mrs. waiter Enterprise Cafe h1636 Penn av

Felix married Macie NelsonJefferson Co, Texas. Macie was born on 3 Nov 1894 in Henderson Co, Texas; died on 29 Dec 1969 in Jefferson Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1947, 2345 Ashley av, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas

Notes:

Residence:
McReynolds Betty r2345 Ashley av
McReynolds Calvis S. (Freda) press opr Thos M. Royal & Co, h565 Schwarner
McReynolds Macie (wid Felix C) h 2345 Ashley av
McReynolds, Oliver (Anna L.) dept wwkr Mag Pet Co, h 1910 Turon
McReynolds Rufus A. (Sue M) hlpr GSU Co h 1536 Penn Av
Sue M. Mrs. waiter Enterprise Cafe h1636 Penn av

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 4 Jan 1901, Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas

Notes:

Other-Begin:
Moses Knodell, a bachelor, named R. Arthur McReynolds of Sabine Pass is named as executor of his will. Moses died 4 Jan 1901

Died:
Justice of Peace who Lived all his life in Jefferson County Dies in Home of Daughter at age of 76
Funeral rites for R.A. McReynolds, 78, precinct 1, Justice of the peace who died yesterday morning in the home of his daughter, Mrs. K.C. Withers, Thomas road, will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon in the Withers Home.
(snip listing of pallbearers and honorary pallbearers)
Mr. McReynolds, justice of the peace for the precinct more than a decade and a lifelong resident of Jefferson county had been in ill health for some time, but had been able to up Friday. He became seriously ill Friday night.
Born in Sabine Pass
He was born in Sabine Pass during the Civil war, a son of Felix and Lara McGill McReynolds. His parents were natives of Georgia and came to Jefferson County during the middle of the nineteenth century. His father was a veteran of the war and worked as a land agent in Sabine Pass, being affiliated with the Kountze broughts who operated throughout this area.
(snip)
While residing in Sabine Pass he was married to the late Rena Plummer McReynods, a member of a pioneer Sabine Pass family. She died last May.
Named Deputy Sheriff
(snip)

Judge McReynolds
Dies in Beaumont
(died Dec 28 1948 Beaumont, Texas)
Judge R.A. McReynolds, brother-in-law of Sam Barrow of Shreveport, died Saturday at 6:30 a.m. in Beaumont, Texas, according to a message received here.
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon in Beaumont with interment in the Magnolia cemetery.
Judge McReynolds was born in Sabine Pass, Texas, he son of Maj. F.C. McReynolds, who fought with Dick Dowling in the famous battle of Sabine Pass during the Civil War.
Mrs. McReynolds, sister of Mrs. Barrow, died in May 1940, Surviving Judge McReynolds are a son F.C. McReynolds, and a daughter Mrs. K.C. Withers, both of Beaumont.
(snippings found in Ancestry)

Robert married Corena May "Rena" Plummer on 4 Nov 1891 in Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas. Corena (daughter of Otis Plummer and Mrs. Louise Mariah (..) Plummer) was born in 1876 in Harrington, Washington Co, Maine; died on 17 May 1940 in Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1870, Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Census: 1880, Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Residence: Between 1891 and 1892, Victoria, Victoria Co, Texas
• Census: 1900, Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas

Notes:

MCREYNOLDS, FELIX C. (1835?1912). Felix C. McReynolds, Confederate officer and businessman, was born in Tennessee in 1835 to Isaac and Sarah (McGonigal) McReynolds. It is probable that Felix McReynolds came to Texas near the time of the Civil War.

During the Civil War McReynolds served as an executive officer for Col. William H. Griffin of "Griffin's Battalion." Four companies of Griffin's Battalion were then consolidated with six companies of the Eleventh Battalion to create Spaight's Regiment of the Twenty-first Texas Infantry. Although McReynolds was not the original executive officer of the battalion, he was a major by early 1863 and in October of 1863 was placed in command of Fort Manhassett and charged with the defense of Sabine Pass. He commanded the fort through the invasion scare of October and November and immediately thereafter married a local woman, Laura Magill, the younger daughter of Kate Dorman, of Sabine Pass fame. As the commandant of the fort, McReynolds presumably remained at the fort through the winter, although troop strength at the fort was reduced due to the invasion at Brownsville.

Although troubled by desertions in the early spring, Major McReynolds led a battery in an attack on Union gunboats, the Wave and the Granite City, at the battle of Calcascieu Pass on May 6, 1864. After the ninety-minute battle, Major McReynolds personally accepted the surrender of the Wave. In November 1864 Griffin's Battalion was transferred to Houston where it remained until it was decommissioned in 1865.

Following the war, Felix McReynolds returned to Sabine Pass. He was engaged in various business enterprises, including railroads, clerking at H. S. Grocery, and farming. The "Early Victoria Home," a historical landmark located on Craig Street in Victoria, Texas, lists Major McReynolds among its notable owners. He apparently resided in that city from 1891 to 1893. Felix McReynolds died in Jefferson County, on February 7, 1912, and is buried in Magnolia Cemetery with his wife Laura. The couple had two children, a son and a daughter.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
W.T. Block, A History of Jefferson County, Texas, From Wilderness to Reconstruction (M.A. thesis, Lamar University, 1974; Nederland, Texas: Nederland Publishing, 1976).
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fmcdi

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On May 6, 1864, the date that McReynolds led the Sabine garrison of seven infantry companies to victory at the Battle of Calcasieu Pass, Louisiana, a fellow Beaumonter, Capt. Joseph Brickhouse, described the major as one "of the bravest officers who ever drew sword," who rallied "his men in such terms as no one who heard him could ever forget." Both McReynolds and his wife are buried within a few feet of the main office of Magnolia Cemetery in Beaumont.
http://www.wtblock.com/wtblockjr/catherin.htm

Census:
1870 Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas
residence 17
F.C. McReynolds 34 clerk, H.S. Grocery Tennessee
Laura Mcreynolds 24 Georgia
R Arthur Mcreynolds 5 Texas
J W Dorman 45 Pilot Delaware
Catharine E Dorman 41 keeping house Georgia 1200, 250
Effie Shaw 12 Texas (g-d of Niles Smith)
C H Alexander 54 wholesale grocery 3,000; 10,000 NC
William Allison 30 retail merchant Ayr Scotland 4,000; 5,000

residence 18 (blank)

residence 19 (widower of Helen Smith, aunt of Effie Shaw))
Wesley Garner 47 clerk W.S. Grocery Louisiana
Niles Garner 17 clerk W.S. Grocery Texas
Claud Garner 12 Texas

residence 20
Harris T.P. 29 dry goods merchant Texas
Delia 24 Texas
Richard 7 Texas
McGaffey Otis 49 merchant, 5000, 5000; Ohio
Mary Jane 48 New York
Charles 16 Texas
Otis 11 Texas


Census:
1880 Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas
F. C. Mcreynolds 44 1836 Tennessee
Laura (McGill) Mcreynolds 35 1845 Georgia
K.(R.) A. Mcreynolds 15 son
S.A. Mcreynolds 4 dau

(note: Bertha listed as dau in 1900, showing born Nov 1875; is S.A. Bertha?


Residence:
The "Early Victoria Home," a historical landmark located on Craig Street in Victoria, Texas, lists Major McReynolds among its notable owners. He apparently resided in that city from 1891 to 1893.
(Texas handbook online)

Census:
1900 Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas
F C Mcreynolds 64 widow
Laura Mcreynolds 14 1886 daughter
Bertha Higy 24 daughter
John H Higy 30 son in law

Note: apparently divorced or separated instead of widowed because Laura didn't die till 1935 in Throckmorton, Texas.

Felix married Laura Magill on 24 Oct 1863 in Jefferson Co, Texas, and was divorced. Laura (daughter of Arthur Magill, chief engineer and Catherine "Kate" (..) Magill-Dorman) was born in 1845 in Georgia; died on 16 Feb 1932; was buried in Magnolia Cem, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas

Otis married Mrs. Louise Mariah (..) Plummer. Louise was born in Oct 1843 in Maine; died on 1 Dec 1909 in Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]