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Geo. W. Reynolds is a prominent citizen of the Seventh District of Dyer County, and is a farmer. He is the son of J. M. and Nancy (Dunlap) Reynolds, and was born in Maury County in 1846, and is one of nine children, seven of whom are living. His father was of French-Irish extraction, and was born in Williamson County, about 1816. His grandfather, Reuben Reynolds, was a native of Georgia, and one of the pioneers of Williamson County, and served as captain under Gen. Jackson in the war of 1812. J. M. Reynolds was raised and educated at home. When twenty-two years old he married Miss Nancy Dunlap, and moved to Maury County, afterward to Marshall County, but business interests caused him to return to Maury County. He was a farmer and a man of ability. He was appointed major of the militia during the time of general muster, also enrolling officer during the civil war. Mrs. Reynolds died in 1875, and in 1883 he married Mrs. Dowdy, who still survives him. He died in 1886, having led an active and industrious life. George Reynolds, our subject, was raised and educated at his father’s, and after his majority spent a few years farming, then traveled in various portions of the North, West and South. In 1874 he moved to Newbern, and for a year sold goods for Col. Wyatt. March 8, 1876, he married Miss Idella, daughter of Samuel and Margaret S. Walker, and had four children, three of whom are living— Wade H., Gracie and Walker. Mr. Reynolds then located in the Seventh District, where he has since resided, owning a farm of 385 acres of good land, under a fine state of cultivation, five miles east of Dyersburg. In 1863 he enlisted in Company A, Maj. D. W. Holman’s battalion of Partisan Rangers, afterward in the Eleventh Tennessee Cavalry; was at Murfreesboro, Thompson’s Station, Spring Hill, and several sharp skirmishes, and in May, 1865, surrendered and returned home after three years’ honorable service. Mr. Reynolds is energetic and liberal, progressive in his ideas, and an influential member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He cast his first presidential vote for Horace Greeley, and is a States rights Democrat. Mrs. Reynolds was born in Dyer County, in 1852, and is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.