Maj. Zachariah Reynolds and Mary Raney Huston

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Husband Maj. Zachariah Reynolds ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: Abt 1786 - Anne Arundel Co, MD
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           Died: 8 Nov 1865 4
         Buried:  - Washington Cemetery, Washington, Washington Co, PA

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         Father: Benedict Reynolds (      -      ) 2 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Harmon (      -      ) 3 5

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   Other Spouse: Margaret Little (      -      ) 1

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Wife Mary Raney Huston ^{4 6}

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         Father: Joseph Huston (      -      ) 4
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Children

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1 M Col. George H. Reynolds ^{5 6}

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           Born: 1840 - Washington, Washington Co, PA 4
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         Spouse: Rachel Austin (      -      ) 4

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2 F Mary E. Reynolds ^{4 6}

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         Spouse: William Weir (      -      ) 6

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3 M Seth H. Reynolds ⁶

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General Notes: Husband - Maj. Zachariah Reynolds

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He was born in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and was about two years old when the family crossed the Alleghanies. He was reared in South Strabane township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, and was self-educated. At the early age of sixteen he commenced teaching school, a vocation he followed for forty years, the school-houses and their furnishings during a portion of that time being of the most primitive description. The floors and seats were made of puncheons, the windows of greased paper, and a log was made into a bench, while a plank fastened against the wall with wooden pins served as a writing desk. At the age of eighteen, during the days when all the men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five were enrolled in the militia, he was chosen captain of his district, and was called out to muster and drill at least three or four times every year. Finally he rose to the rank of major, his commission being signed by the governor of Pennsylvania, in the year 1810 or 1812, and was held in reserve in the war of 1812-15. During that period Major Reynolds, being a self-made man, roused the admiration of the citizens of Washington county, and as a consequence was elected to many positions of trust. He was a fine penman as well as an active business man, and in 1836 was appointed county treasurer, which office he filled for two terms of three years each, after which he served as prothonotary in 1839.

He was born in South Strabane Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. He was a man of natural talent, and was better educated than many men of his day, being particularly gifted as a penman. He did quite a large part of the drawing for the charts of the internal organs for Dr. Leatherman, of Houstonville, Pennsylvania, and his pen work was admired all over the county. He served as clerk in the Pittsburgh postoffice, and in the prothonatory's and treasurer's offices at Washington. He lived into his seventy-ninth year. His burial was first by the side of his wife in the home cemetery, but later his son, D. L. Reynolds, had the bodies of his parents removed and interred in the Washington Cemetery.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Raney Huston

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She died when 84 years of age.

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 954.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 307, 674.

3 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1289.

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 308.

5 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 307.

6 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1290.