Hugh Riah Reynolds, Jr.

	Hugh Riah Reynolds, Jr. b. Nov 12, 1828, Giles County, Tennessee, m. Jan 11, 1849,
	in Lauderdale County, Alabama, Mary Ann Cantrell, b. ca. 1832, Lauderdale County,
	Alabama, (daughter of John Cantrell and Jane) d. ca. 1898.
		    Children: 
		  i Ellender D. Reynolds b. Apr21, 1850, Lauderdale County, Alabama,
		    m. Apr 28, 1878, in Lauderdale County, Alabama, John Crymes,
		    b. Jul 17, 1849, Lauderdale County, Alabama, d. Aug 27, 1915,
		    Lauderdale County, Alabama, buried: Piney Grove Cemetery. Ellender
		    died ca. 1882, Lauderdale County, Alabama.
		 ii Esther J. Reynolds b. Mar 2, 1853, Lauderdale County, Alabama,
		    d. 1858, Lauderdale County, Alabama.
		iii Mary E. Reynolds b. Sep 3, 1855, Lauderdale County, Alabama,
		    d. 1858, Lauderdale County, Alabama.
		 iv Nancy A. "Nannie" Reynolds b. Jan 25, 1858, Lauderdale County,
		    Alabama, d. 1938, Lawrence County, Tennessee.
		  v George W. Reynolds b. ca. 1860, Lauderdale, County, Alabama.
		 vi Harvey H. Reynolds b. Mar 8, 1863, Lauderdale County, Alabama.
		vii William L. Reynolds b. Nov 14, 1865, Lauderdale County, Alabama.

My maternal great grandmother, Ellender D. Reynolds, was born April 21, 1850 in Lauderdale County, Alabama. Ellen was the daughter of Hugh Riah Reynolds, Jr. and Mary Ann Cantrell who married January 11, 1849. Hugh Riah was named after his father, Hugh Riah Reynolds, Sr., who had married in September 1816 to Elizabeth Hamm. Hugh Riah, Jr. and his thirteen brothers and sister were the grandchildren of two veterans of the Revolutionary War, Hamilton Reynolds, father of Hugh Riah, Sr. and John Hamm, father of Elizabeth Hamm.

Ellen's mother, Mary Ann Cantrell Reynolds, was the daughter of John and Jane, "Jinsy", Cantrell who were living near the mouth of Butler Creek in 1820. Mary Ann's three sisters were Nancy, Eleanor Jane and Lucinda. Upon the death of Mary Ann's father, John Cantrell, in 1842 the two younger sisters, Eleanor and Lucinda, were placed under the guardianship of Hugh R. Reynolds. Nancy would marry Joseph Hardwick and Eleanor married Willis Howell. Lucinda became a member of the Reynolds family in 1854 when she married Anderson Pinkney, the brother of Hugh Riah, Jr.

Ellen Reynolds was one of seven children born to Mary Ann and Hugh Riah Reynolds, Jr. Her brothers and sisters were Esther J., Mary E., Nannie E., George W., Harvey H. and William L. On April 28, 1878, Ellen married John Crymes who, as a young boy, had lived with Ellen's aunt, Lucinda, and her husband, Anderson Pinkney Reynolds.

Prior to Ellen's early death, she and John Crymes had a daughter, Anna E., in 1879 and two sons, Oscar Dudley, in 1880 and, William Thomas, in 1882. Ellen Reynolds Crymes' children were mentioned in the estate papers of her mother, Mary Ann Cantrell Reynolds. Although the total estate value was approximately $45.00 per child, each child received a small remembrance from their grandmother.

Ellen and John Crymes' oldest son, Oscar Dudley Crymes, married Mattie Fern Clemmons on July 12, 1905. The marriage was recorded in Lawrence County, Tennessee. Mattie, the daughter of Silas Pinkney Clemmons and Charlotte Watkins, was born December 27, 1888. Until Oscar was sixty years old, he and Mattie lived, farmed and attended church in the same community as their ancestors. However after the hardships of the Depression, Oscar and Mattie moved the younger members of the family of ten children to Nashville, Tennessee. One son, Tommie Lee, had died at the age of five from complications from a fever and was buried at Piney Grove Cemetery in Lauderdale County on January 30, 1917.

Oscar and Mattie Crymes' nine children who made the trip to Nashville, Tennessee were Johnnie Pinkney, Theodore, Albert Dudley, Elizabeth, Lillian Olivia, Rufus, Claude Andrew, Eva Marie and Grover Lesley, "Dick". Their sixth child, Lillian, was born October 24, 1919 and married Robert Arthur Mayfield. Lillian and "Bob" had two daughters, Linda Joyce and Mary Elizabeth. Lillian, who died May 15, 1959 in Columbia, South Carolina, is buried next to her infant son, Bobby Ray, in Gaffney, South Carolina.
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Submitted by: Linda Mayfield Vestal, great-granddaughter of Ellen Cantrell
and Hugh Riah Reynolds, Jr. and granddaughter of Oscar and Mattie Clemmons Crymes
897 Lakemont Drive, Nashville, TN 37220