Reynolds family papers
Collection – Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-0448
Collection Organization
This collection primarily focuses on the lives of Robert Kerr Reynolds, his wife, Hazel Fry Reynolds, and their children. The majority of the documents are in the form of correspondence and photographs.
The largest series of correspondence belongs to Wade Reynolds (1929-1961), son of Robert and Hazel. It covers the period 1951-1953, when Wade served in an Army transportation unit stationed primarily in Texas. The letters begin with his basic training and cover his stay in Texas as well as a short trip to Korea and Japan. Another set of letters follows the service of John Reynolds as an Army Air Corps mechanic between 1941 and 1945. Additional correspondence documents the lives of other family members and also details genealogical research conducted on the Reynolds Family.
Throughout the letters of Wade Reynolds and Hazel Reynolds, there is mention of a religious group called The True Way to which some Reynolds family members belonged. There is also a separate subject file with more information on this group.
Finally, this collection contains a large set of photographs and negatives including two photograph albums. These photographs depict members of the Reynolds family as well as agricultural scenes and date from early tintypes to photographs taken in the 1970s.
Correspondence, 1879-1986
Series – Box 1
This series includes the following materials:
- Wade Reynolds correspondence, 1951-1953: Collection of letters written by Wade Reynolds to his family during Korean War when he served in a transportation unit stationed in Texas with a few letters from Korea and Japan.
- John Reynolds correspondence, 1941-1945: Letters written home by John Reynolds during WWII when he served As a Army Air Corps mechanic taking care of B-26 medium bombers. The letters are written from California and later in the War, from Iwo Jima.
- Nancy Marks correspondence, 1980-1986: Correspondence between Nancy Marks in northern Ireland, with Don Reynolds concerning Reynolds family history.
- Reynolds family correspondence, 1879-1975: Correspondence of other family members including Lottie Graham, Don, Hazel and Robert Reynolds.
- Dates
- Creation: 1879-1986
Correspondence-Wade Reynolds, 1951
File – Box 1, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: 1951
Correspondence-Wade Reynolds, 1952
File – Box 1, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: 1952
Correspondence-Wade Reynolds, 1953, undated
File – Box 1, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: 1953, undated
Correspondence-John Reynolds, 1941-1945
File – Box 1, Folder: 4
- Dates
- Creation: 1941-1945
Correspondence-Nancy Marks, 1980-1986
File – Box 1, Folder: 5
- Dates
- Creation: 1980-1986
Correspondence-Lottie Graham, 1879-1881
File – Box 1, Folder: 6
- Dates
- Creation: 1879-1881
Correspondence-Don Reynolds, 1971-1980
File – Box 1, Folder: 7
- Dates
- Creation: 1971-1980
Correspondence-Hazel Reynolds, 1940-1975
File – Box 1, Folder: 8
- Dates
- Creation: 1940-1975
Correspondence-Robert Reynolds, 1940-1945
File – Box 1, Folder: 9
- Dates
- Creation: 1940-1945
Correspondence-Miscellaneous, 1934-1961, undated
File – Box 1, Folder: 10
- Dates
- Creation: 1934-1961, undated
Genealogical files, 1870s-1970s
Series – Multiple Containers
Includes newspaper clippings, official documents, letters and a description of the Lee family and descendants.
- Dates
- Creation: 1870s-1970s
Genealogy and family history documents, 1870s-1970s
File – Box 2, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: 1870s-1970s
Documents-Hazel and Robert Reynolds, 1909-1954 (scattered)
File – Box 2, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: 1909-1954 (scattered)
Documents-Hugh Reynolds, 1950
File – Box 2, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: 1950
Documents-John Reynolds, 1934-1970 (scattered)
File – Box 2, Folder: 4
- Dates
- Creation: 1934-1970 (scattered)
Documents-Robert Reynolds, 1896
File – Box 2, Folder: 5
- Dates
- Creation: 1896
Documents-Robert Bruce Reynolds, 1932, 1945
File – Box 2, Folder: 6
- Dates
- Creation: 1932, 1945
Documents-Wade Reynolds, 1947
File – Box 2, Folder: 7
- Dates
- Creation: 1947
Marriage Certificate of John Fry and Amelia Huber, March 18, 1913
Item – Box 8, Folder: 7
- Dates
- Creation: March 18, 1913
Literary productions, circa 1880s, 1934-1976
Series – Multiple Containers
This series includes the following materials:
- The True Way, 1934-1976: Poems, sermons and hymnals from The True Way, a religious group to which many Reynolds family members belonged. Also includes a list of the various meetings of the group, mainly those in Ohio.
- Lottie Graham's autograph album, circa 1880s
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1880s
- Creation: 1934-1976
Documents-The True Way, 1940s-1970s
File – Box 2, Folder: 8
- Dates
- Creation: 1940s-1970s
Hymnals-The True Way, 1951
File – Box 2, Folder: 9
- Dates
- Creation: 1951
Autograph Album-Lottie Graham, circa 1880s
File – Box 3, Folder: 5
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1880s
Legal and financial documents, 1870-1984
Series – Multiple Containers
This series includes the following materials:
- Legal papers, 1870-1984: Land deeds and a letter designating the William Graham House as on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Account ledger/Attendance book, 1875-1901: Two ledgers of farm accounts, one of which includes the attendance records of classes taught by Lottie Graham.
- Dates
- Creation: 1870-1984
Legal papers, deeds, 1874-1984 (scattered)
File – Box 2, Folder: 10
- Dates
- Creation: 1874-1984 (scattered)
Account ledgers and attendance book-Lottie Graham, 1875-1885
File – Box 2, Folder: 11
- Dates
- Creation: 1875-1885
Farm ledger, 1887-1897
File – Box 3, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: 1887-1897
Farm ledger with scattered entries and recipes, 1910-1928
File – Box 3, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: 1910-1928
Farm ledger with scattered entries and recipes, 1917-1948
File – Box 3, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: 1917-1948
Financial documents-tax receipts, 1870-1971
File – Box 3, Folder: 4
- Dates
- Creation: 1870-1971
Printed materials, 1834, 1879, 1937
Series – Multiple Containers
Includes Lottie Graham's English lesson book, a German catechism a family Bible, journal articles, Portage Twp. High School annual.
- Dates
- Creation: 1834
- Creation: 1879
- Creation: 1937
Lesson book-Lottie Graham, 1879
Item – Box 3, Folder: 6
- Dates
- Creation: 1879
Umble, John, "Extinct Ohio Mennonite Churches, II, Wood County," The Mennonite Quarterly Review, p. 89-116, undated
Item – Box 3, Folder: 7
- Dates
- Creation: undated
The Reflector, Vol. 1, Portage Twp. High School Annual, May 21, 1937
Item – Box 3, Folder: 8
- Dates
- Creation: May 21, 1937
Holy Bible of the Robert K. Reynolds Family, undated
Item – Box 3, Folder: 9
- Dates
- Creation: undated
Catechism book, 1834
Item – Box 5, Folder: 12
- Dates
- Creation: 1834
- Language of Materials
- German
- Language of Materials
- German
Bible of Mrs. R. K. Reynolds including lists of family births, marriages and deaths, undated
Item – Box 7, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: undated
Photographs and postcards, circa 1870s-1950s
Series – Multiple Containers
This series includes the following materials:
- Photographic prints, 1870s-1940s: Includes portraits of various family members, agricultural scenes, depictions of natural disasters, school pictures. Most are loose photographs, some are in photograph albums, and a few are oversize.
- Postcards, 1907-1950s: Includes postcards from various countries, a set from the 1939 New York World's Fair, and some birthday cards.
- Photographic negatives, undated: Includes negatives of some of the already described photographs.
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1870s-1950s
John and Eliza Reynolds
File – Box 4, Folder: 1
John and Margaret Reynolds
File – Box 4, Folder: 2
Children of John Reynolds
File – Box 4, Folder: 3
Robert Kerr and Hazel Fry Reynolds
File – Box 4, Folder: 4
Bruce Reynolds
File – Box 4, Folder: 5
John W. Reynolds
File – Box 4, Folder: 6
John W. Reynolds
File – Box 4, Folder: 7
Glenn Reynolds
File – Box 4, Folder: 8
Wade Reynolds
File – Box 4, Folder: 9
Don Reynolds
File – Box 4, Folder: 10
Judy Reynolds
File – Box 4, Folder: 11
Ray Reynolds
File – Box 4, Folder: 12
Roy Reynolds
File – Box 4, Folder: 13
John Olen Reynolds
File – Box 4, Folder: 14
Oral and Hazel Carnes
File – Box 4, Folder: 15
Maebelle David
File – Box 4, Folder: 16
Ralph and Nora Estep Holly
File – Box 4, Folder: 17
Lizzie Johnston
File – Box 4, Folder: 18
Lena Kelly
File – Box 4, Folder: 19
Carrie Maddex
File – Box 4, Folder: 20
Delmar and Betty and Mary Elizabeth Smith
File – Box 4, Folder: 21
Josephine Snope
File – Box 4, Folder: 22
George and Sade Sterns
File – Box 4, Folder: 23
Mary, Lou and Frank Whitacre
File – Box 4, Folder: 24
Hazel Wirebaugh
File – Box 4, Folder: 25
Unidentified portraits
File – Box 4, Folder: 26
Unidentified portraits
File – Box 4, Folder: 27
Bockover family
File – Box 4, Folder: 28
Cole family
File – Box 4, Folder: 29
Fry family
File – Box 4, Folder: 30
Fry family
File – Box 4, Folder: 31
Graham family
File – Box 4, Folder: 32
Reynolds family
File – Box 5, Folder: 1
Reynolds farm-agricultural scenes
File – Box 5, Folder: 2
Reynolds farm-natural disasters
File – Box 5, Folder: 3
Miscellaneous scenes (both negatives and prints)
File – Box 5, Folder: 4
School pictures
File – Box 5, Folder: 5
Postcards-Reynolds/Fry, 1907-1908
File – Box 5, Folder: 6
- Dates
- Creation: 1907-1908
Postcards-Reynolds/Fry, 1909-1910
File – Box 5, Folder: 7
- Dates
- Creation: 1909-1910
Postcards-Reynolds/Fry, 1907-1912
File – Box 5, Folder: 8
- Dates
- Creation: 1907-1912
Postcards-Reynolds/Fry and World's Fair, 1911-1912, 1939
File – Box 5, Folder: 9
- Dates
- Creation: 1911-1912, 1939
Postcards and birthday cards-Reynolds/Fry, undated
File – Box 5, Folder: 10
- Dates
- Creation: undated
Coffin plates (Glenn Reynolds ?), 1940
File – Box 5, Folder: 11
- Dates
- Creation: 1940
Reynolds home with members of Fry family, 1897-1898
Item – Box 5, Folder: 13
- Dates
- Creation: 1897-1898
Jonas Fry home in Bloom Township, 1880
Item – Box 5, Folder: 13
- Dates
- Creation: 1880
Margaret McKaig Reynolds home, Mermill Road, circa 1890s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 13
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1890s
Margaret McKaig Reynolds home, circa 1880s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 13
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1880s
Reason W. Kelly home, West Millgrove, 1890
Item – Box 5, Folder: 14
- Dates
- Creation: 1890
Hall School (2 photographs), circa 1890s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 14
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1890s
Margaret MacReynolds and dog, undated
Item – Box 5, Folder: 14
- Dates
- Creation: undated
Cattle drive to Prairie Depot (Wayne), circa 1880s-1890s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 15
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1880s-1890s
Nancy Reynolds Hutton home, circa 1880s-1890s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 15
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1880s-1890s
Log Cabin Hotel (postcard), Bascom, Ohio, February 28, 1907
Item – Box 5, Folder: 15
- Dates
- Creation: February 28, 1907
Margaret MacReynolds farm, circa 1890s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 15
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1890s
Addison Fry and family, Bloom Twp., circa 1890s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 16
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1890s
Adam Graham and wife, Mary Jane and children, circa 1890s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 16
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1890s
Jonas and Elizabeth Fry and children, circa 1890s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 16
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1890s
Relative of Elizabeth Fry (possibly sister), circa 1880s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 17
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1880s
Possibly Charles Fry and wife, undated
Item – Box 5, Folder: 17
- Dates
- Creation: undated
Elizabeth Fry, Bloom Twp., circa 1890s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 17
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1890s
Mabel and Edna Graham, circa 1880s-1890s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 18
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1880s-1890s
Edna, Mary Jane and Mabel Graham, circa 1880s-1890s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 18
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1880s-1890s
Mimie Warner, circa 1880s-1890s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 18
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1880s-1890s
Jonathan and Charlotte Fry, Portage Twp., circa 1880s-1890s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 18
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1880s-1890s
Orrin, Edan and Elpha (Baird) Graham, circa 1880s-1890s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 19
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1880s-1890s
John and Margaret Reynolds and children, circa 1880s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 19
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1880s
Frederick Halbeth, circa late 1880s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 19
- Dates
- Creation: circa late 1880s
William Graham, circa 1870s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 20
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1870s
William Graham, circa 1870s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 20
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1870s
Two women with hats, one is Charlotte Graham, circa 1870s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 20
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1870s
Man with flag tie, circa 1860s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 20
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1860s
Adam Graham, circa 1860s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 21
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1860s
Elizabeth Graham (wife of William), circa 1870s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 21
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1870s
Mary Jane Graham (wife of Adam), circa 1860s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 21
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1860s
Adam and Mary Jane Graham (pregnant), circa 1860s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 21
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1860s
Ione Adams, circa 1910
Item – Box 5, Folder: 22
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1910
Charles Fry and family, undated
Item – Box 5, Folder: 22
- Dates
- Creation: undated
Augusta Halbeth and family home, North Baltimore, September 1908
Item – Box 5, Folder: 22
- Dates
- Creation: September 1908
Aerial view of Reynolds farm, Montgomery Twp., circa 1957
Item – Box 5, Folder: 23
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1957
Reynolds farm-horses pulling hay, circa 1945
Item – Box 5, Folder: 23
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1945
Reynolds farm-harvesting, circa 1940s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 23
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1940s
Reynolds farm-tractor with pulley, circa 1945
Item – Box 5, Folder: 23
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1945
Reynolds farm-harvesting, circa 1945
Item – Box 5, Folder: 24
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1945
Reynolds farm-corn binder, circa 1945
Item – Box 5, Folder: 24
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1945
Reynolds farm-John Deere tractor, circa 1945
Item – Box 5, Folder: 24
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1945
Hazel Reynolds on farm, circa 1940s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 24
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1940s
Hazel Reynolds at summer kitchen, circa 1940s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 25
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1940s
Hazel Reynolds and pets, circa 1940s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 25
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1940s
Reynolds farm-winter scene with sled and car, circa 1941
Item – Box 5, Folder: 25
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1941
Blizzard-snow plowing on Emerson Road, 1945
Item – Box 5, Folder: 25
- Dates
- Creation: 1945
Robert Reynolds and truck (radio,electric, tv), circa 1950s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 26
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1950s
Milk truck pick up at Reynolds farm, circa 1950s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 26
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1950s
Reynolds farm-people at car, late 1940s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 26
- Dates
- Creation: late 1940s
Harry Fry and Wade Iler on motorcycles, circa 1920s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 26
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1920s
Wade Reynolds and horse on farm, circa 1942
Item – Box 5, Folder: 27
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1942
Wade Reynolds fixing bicycle on farm, October 1942
Item – Box 5, Folder: 27
- Dates
- Creation: October 1942
Child at play on farm, circa 1910s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 27
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1910s
John Hr. and Lee Ann Reynolds in bobsled at farm, 1947
Item – Box 5, Folder: 27
- Dates
- Creation: 1947
John Reynolds on tricycle at farm, 1949
Item – Box 5, Folder: 28
- Dates
- Creation: 1949
Dewey Frankfather (laborer) at farm with horse/buggy, 1913
Item – Box 5, Folder: 28
- Dates
- Creation: 1913
Charles, Wade and Hazel Reynolds at Catawba Island, late 1940s
Item – Box 5, Folder: 28
- Dates
- Creation: late 1940s
Church at Lumar Road (damage from wind storm), undated
Item – Box 5, Folder: 28
- Dates
- Creation: undated
Portage Township School picture, grades 2-3, 1928
Item – Box 5, Folder: 29
- Dates
- Creation: 1928
Portage Township school picture, grades 1-2, 1935-1936
Item – Box 5, Folder: 29
- Dates
- Creation: 1935-1936
John Fry's home in Bowling Green (S. Main and Dixie), 1920
Item – Box 5, Folder: 29
- Dates
- Creation: 1920
Pemberville School, circa 1907
Item – Box 5, Folder: 29
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1907
Elmwood High School Class of 1971 20th reunion photo, 1991
File – Box 5, Folder: 30
- Dates
- Creation: 1991
Photograph album-identified in album, undated
Item – Box 6, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: undated
Small photograph album, including many tintypes, with most identified, circa 1870s-1880s
Item – Box 7, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1870s-1880s
Addison Fry and family, circa 1890s
Item – Box 8, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1890s
Jonas Fry Home and Farm, Bloom Twp, Wood Co., August 5, 1880
Item – Box 8, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: August 5, 1880
William Reynolds and twin sister, undated
Item – Box 8, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: undated
Kelly House (?) with many family members outside, circa 1890
Item – Box 8, Folder: 4
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1890
Unidentified residence, undated
Item – Box 8, Folder: 5
- Dates
- Creation: undated
Unidentified residence, undated
Item – Box 8, Folder: 6
- Dates
- Creation: undated