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Alice Grace Boyles married Walter Scott Reynolds on November 3, 1880. They lived in Meriden, Kansas, and the first four of their children were born there.
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Reynolds house in Meriden, Kansas. Seated on ground, Arthur Rowland, born to Walter & Alice Reynolds, November 23, 1881. In high chair, Margie (pronounced with a hard "g", as in "go") Lucile, born May 31, 1884. |
| They moved west and settled in Cowlitz County, Washington and then to Castle Rock, Washington. They were living near Spirit Lake in Washington with their eight children when my grandfather met my grandmother, second from left: Margie Lucile Reynolds. |
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The Walter Scott Reynolds family, about 1901. Back row, left to right, Ivy Isabelle, Margie Lucile, Arthur Rowland, Chester Neil, Helen Frances, and Bernice Ethel. Front row, left to right, Alice Grace Boyles Reynolds holding Theodore Page, Horace Elmer, and Walter Scott Reynolds. |
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The Walter Scott Reynolds family siblings, many, many years later. Back row, left to right: Bernice Ethel, Horace Elmer, Theodore Page, Isobel Ivy. Front row, left to right: Helen Frances, Chester Neil, Margie Lucile, Arthur Rowland. Walter & Alice in later days are pictured toward bottom of page. (Photo courtesy of Grace Winters, granddaughter of Bernice Ethel.) |
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Margie Lucile Reynolds |
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Walter's Heroic Brother
Walter Scott Reynolds was the son of Dr. Joseph Boyer Reynolds and his second wife. (Click here for the text of an autobiographical letter written by Walter to his sister, Anzonetta.) The doctor had several children from a previous marriage, one of whom was Charles Alexander Reynolds, "Lonesome Charley". Charley is looked upon as something of a hero in the state of Illinois, where he was probably born. He was an expert marksman, and frontiersman, a scout, and a hunter. Evidence shows that he probably died what is assumed to be a noble death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, defending a doctor who was treating a downed man on the field. |
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This picture is commonly accepted as a photograph of the frontiersman, hunter, guide, and scout, Charles Alexander ("Lonesome Charley") Reynolds who was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Note the resemblence to Walter Scott Reynolds in the family picture above. |
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This picture is purported to be a "Rare photo of Lonesome Charley Reynolds, a scout killed with Custer at the Little Bighorn. Here he is wearing a derby hat, with Chief Charlie Hogg, and Hogg's wife and child. Circa 1875." Gratefully received from David Hurlbut, the grandson of Walter Scott Reynolds' daughter, Bernice Ethel. It was given to him by his sister, Bernice, and she in turn received it from a friend who knew she was Charley's great-grandniece. |
| Click here for another photo of Charley and the text of a letter written by Charley during his service in the Civil War. | |
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Just as Charley seemed to inherit his father's considerable skills with animals and the wilderness, the younger Walter inherited carpentry and construction skills. He would travel through Washington, Oregon, and California building. Carpenters and builders had to go where the work was, whether that was just across town or off to another state. They'd travel from one site to another, usually renting nearby houses for their families. That brought them to Central California, and eventually to the Santa Clara Valley where they remained for the rest of their days.
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Walter & Alice Reynolds |
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