Reynolds, B.H. ("Barney") 1847-1927

REYNOLDS, FOX, MYERS

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 5/20/2012 at 12:48:14

The Grinnell (IA) Herald; Oct. 14, 1927

THE TRUMPET SOUNDS "TAPS"
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B.H. ("Barney") Reynolds Passed Away Suddenly Wednesday.
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LACKED ONLY FEW WEEKS OF BEING 80 YEARS OLD.
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Mr. Reynolds Was One of Grinnell's Few Remaining Civil War Veterans.
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One of Grinnell's few remaining veterans of the Civil War answered the last summons very suddenly last Wednesday morning when B.H. Reynolds, who has never been known as anything else than "Barney" in Grinnell, was stricken suddenly while passing the Grinnell Washing Machine Corporation factory. Those who saw him fall hastened to him but he had passed away before assistance could reach him.

"Barney's" cheerful smile and kindly greeting will be missed. He was a man who made friends and kept them. His memory will be green in Grinnell for many a year, even though his physcial presence is gone. "Barney" lacked only a few weeks of being eighty years old and had made his home in Grinnell since 1880.

Funeral services were conducted at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon from the Methodist church by Rev. George Blagg and interment was in Hazelwood cemetery.

Bernard Hamilton Reynolds was born in New York City, in what is now the heart of the business section, on December 24, 1847, and lacked only a few weeks of being eighty years old. He was the youngest of three children and he was born five months after the family arrived in this country from Ireland.

At the age of sixteen he enlisted for service in the Civil War, where he served two years and four months. He was a member of Company E., 13th New York Volunteer Cavalry, and served with distinction through some of the chief campaigns of the war. His company served, at different times, under McClellan, Hooker, Sheridan and Kirkpatrick, and it was during some of the heaviest fights that Barney Reynolds received a bullet in the knee that caused him to limp for the rest of his days.

After his discharge from service he returned to New York, and in 1867 came west to St. Louis where he worked as stone mason on the construction of several government forts and buildings. He came to Newton in 1873 and was employed on the construction of the Masonic building.

He was married in Grinnell, May 12, 1880, to Margaret Fox, and this city has always been their home since that time.

Of the five children born to them, one, Fred, died in November 1918. Those surviving him are George, of Denver; Ben, of Grinnell; Mrs. Cecil Myers of Grinnell, and Harry, now of Winona, Minn. There are also three grand-daughters, Doris, of Denver, and Lucile and Dorothy, of Atlantic.

Mrs. Reynolds died in December 1919.

"Barney" Reynolds was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge, Gordon Granger Post of the G.A.R. and allied organizations.