S.M. Newberry is male, previous entries listed him as female because of the first name.
S.M. Newberry is male, previous entries listed him as female because of the first name.
Mattie died when her 2 girls were young, girls raised thereafter by their grandmother Parmelia.
Mattie died when her 2 girls were young, girls raised thereafter by their grandmother Parmelia.
Sources: Marriage bond for daughter Permelia signed by Green BW Reynolds dated 11 & 12 January 1847; also 1850 and 1860 Botetourt Co VA censuses Also Will of GBW Reynolds dated 12 July 1862, listing wife & children
In the 1850 Botetourte County Census, Greenville is listed with a wife "Frances" and has Samuel D. Newberry listed as a boarder... perhaps Samuel is an older brother to Henry Clay Newberry who married Parmelia.
-Devenport family tradition states Parmelia, Greenville's daughter, was related to the "Tobacco Reynolds" and the family always asserted that meant we were related to the R.J. Reynolds family.
Greenville inherited land "from his father's estate in Allegheny(?-not sure), an adjoining county in VA to the west.
WILL OF GBW REYNOLDS
In the name of God, Amen. This my last will and testament.
Considering the uncertainty of this mortal life and being of sound mind and memory I, G.B.W. Reynolds do make and publish this my last will and testament, in manner and form as follows. "SS" whereas, revoking all former wills and simple deeds, after paying all of my just debts, I do will and bequeath to my daughter Louisa Willie Reynolds two thirds of all my perishable property and all of my land in Botetourte County, "excepting the tract that I purchased from Rogers and Ballew" Negroes, Stock, Households and Kitchen furniture,
Money, Bonds etc, in short, property of every description. And furthermore I do will and bequeath to my son Harrison B. Reynolds, Archy Reynolds, John Reynolds & Permelia Newbury all of my interest in my father's estate in Alleghany County, equally between them. I also will & bequeath to my wife Louisa L. Reynolds, the one third of all my perishable property consisting of Negroes,Stock, Household and Kitchen furniture, Money, Bonds etc, her lifetime at her decease, I desire & will that it all go to my daughter Louisa Willie Reynolds, and further in case my daughter Louisa Willie should die, leaving no heirs, I desire and will that all the porperty and the increase thereoff, come back and be divided equally between all of my living heirs. I do furthermore desire and will that there shall be deducted from the property aboved willed to my wife Louisa Reynolds the sum of Three hundred dollars annually commenceing from the frist day of March 1855 and to continue so long as they remain with me, or at my expense this is for and, in consideration for the expense fo raising and education Miss Bettie & Lucy Staples. I also desire that my son Harrison shall remain upon the land where he now lives which I have willed and bequeath to my daughter Louisa Willie, untill my daughter Louisa Willie becomes of age, or marry. If he desires to do so and H. B. Reynolds is to pay annually to the trustees as rent for the benefit of my daughter Louisa Willie, one fourth of all the crops, and should this not be sufficient to raise and educate her the trustees are to make up the deficientcy. Should it be ascertained that my daughter Lousia W should be ill treated I greatly desire that the trustees see that she be speedily removed to some suitable boarding house where she will be properly & kindly treated & cared for. I also wish my grave to be substancially inclosed with the other & Tombstones for each grave be bought and paid for out of my money or bonds. I want without fail Preston Barger & William D. Couch as trustees to settle up my estate & see that the above disposition of my property is faithfully carried out.
Given under my hand this twelvth day of July Eighteen hundred & Sixty Two
Test G. B. W. Reynolds
Isaac W. Rogers
Richard L. SizerAt Botetourte December Court 1863
This instrument olf writing purporting to be the last Will & Testament of Green B.W. Reynolds ded'd was exhibited in Court and fully proven by the oaths of Isaac W. Rogers & Richard L. Sizer subscribed witnesses thereto, and ordered to be recorded as the true last Will and Testament of the said Green B. W. Reynolds dec'd.
Teste F. Woltz Clk.
Source 1860 Botetourte Co VA census, evidently GBW's subsequent wife Also GBW Reynolds will dated 12 july 1863
Source 1860 Botetourte Co VA census, evidently GBW's subsequent wife Also GBW Reynolds will dated 12 july 1863
Louisa is listed in Greenville's 1863 will, I assume she is wife #2 Louisa's daughter.
Birthdate estimated from census records
Dinkie (Adelia) died August 5th. She was cremated and there was no service. She had requested that her ashes be saved until Pop's (her husband Horace) death and the ashes be mixed and a memorial service be held for the two of them. Since Nita has such a hard time getting around, we did not go to West Palm Beach. I have the Obituary so I'll send it to you.
Adelia "Del" Wharton
83, of West Palm Beach, died peacefully at home on Tuesday, August 5. Born in Dallas,Tx, she grew up and lived in Florida for 82 of her 83 years. She lived and worked in Melbourne,Fl for over 40 years as a Medical Secretary and Insurance Specialist before moving to WPB.
She is survived by her husband of 65 years, Horace B. "Pop" Wharton; daughters: Fran Lackey and Barbara Whitford of West Palm Beach; son Tom (Valerie) of Tampa; sister, Juanita Langenegger (Jack) of Tyler TX; brother Tivice Davenport of New York; niece Mary Ann Dunnavant and nephew, Jack Wade Langenegger, both of Texas. She was adored by five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren: Mary Sargent (Dan) of WPB, Debi Stamper (John) of Richland, WA, Pamela Mangold (Steven) of Clearwater, FL; Shannon Kreeger (Kevin) of Sunnyvale, CA;and Christopher Wharton (Melissa) of St. Petersburg, FL; Casey, Kelley, Alexandra, Robby, Taylor, Sean and Kyle.
Jack died of a heart attack 16 April 2005. Nita still living in March 2007
Letter from Jack Langenegger to Jim C. Devenport, December 2002:
Hi Jim,
It was good to hear from you. Nita isn't doing too well at the moment, but we're hoping for better days ere long. She needs a knee replacement very badly, but her internist doesn't want her to have it because of her pacemaker, which means she's on a blood thinner. Her oncologist is treating her for nodules on her lung. She is taking a series of three monthly shots of FASLODEX, a new cancer medicine. She had breast cancer five years ago, and mastectomies eighteen months later. Her original surgery was a lumpectomy. Her oncologist thinks the lung nodules are from the breast cancer. SHE (the oncologist) thinks her prognosis is very good with the new treatment. In March, after the third shot, she will have a CATSCAN to see what's going on. Please keep her in your prayers. She (and I) are firm believers in prayer and hopefully she will improve. She is a real trooper, staying in good spirits and staying busy. I'm doing very well, having no problems that curtail my activities very much.
My ham radio history doesn't amount to much. When Jack Wade was in about the fifth grade, a local ham whose wife was Jack Wade's teacher, asked his wife to choose a member of her class who she thought would learn the code (a requirement then) and she chose him. In helping him learn the code, etc. I became interested and we took the novice test together, which we both passed. We had a small 25 watt transmitter (code only, no audio capabilities) and we both made a lot of QSOs.
In about a year I took the general test and passed it. However, Jack Wade had become too involved in basketball and lost interest in Ham Radio.
About that time, Nita went to work for the local weekly newspaper so that she could give me a Heathkit 200 watt transmitter that worked on 160, 80, 40, 15, and 10 meters. I built it in my spare time that winter and spring and finally completed assembling it. I was almost afraid to turn it on in case it blew up, but it worked perfectly on all bands. I had an inverted V antenna with 80 foot elements going both directions, making 160 feet total.
I was on the air from 1959 (the year I got my general license) until we built our home in town (Hagerman) in 1973. I haven't been on the air since then.
I still have the old Heathkit transmitter stored in the attic. I have no idea if it would work or not, and don't know what I'll ever do with it.
I built a bunch of Heathkit stuff, including a vacuum tube volt-ammeter, a test instrument for electrical equipment on cars, trucks and tractors, three Heathkit digital bathroom scales (digital was a novelty in those days) that were extremely accurate.
Mine worked very well for about fifteen years, but when it quit, I couldn't buy parts since heathkit had sold and their successor company didn't stock the stress bar I needed to fix it. Mary Ann's worked about the same length of time and the third was a gift and I don't know about it. I built an instrument for my ham receiver to narrow the band to eliminate outside interference (I don't remember what we called it) and it worked very well.
In my contacts I talked to hams in Australia, So. America, Canada, etc. One of my most memorable contacts was with a ham aboard a freighter sailing through the Strait Of Gibraltar. My very first was with a Ham-W5QWL- in South Carolina on ten meters. I remember his call letters because he identified himself in that Southern drawl saying "this is W5QWL, W5 Quarter wave length, pronouncing the letters phonetically.
That's about it, Jim. Thanks for writing. If you have any updates on the Devenport family tree, Nita would probably (and me) be interested in seeing what you've found.
Give our love to all of your family.
Jack
Glenn first lived at House NM shortly after marrying Nellie and then eventually took a "good" job on the Santa Fe Railroad at Winslow Arizona where he lived with his wife and family the rest of his life.
He developed severe diabetes symptoms while on a trip several months before he died; within a short time he was diagnosed with cancer. After treatment at the hospital in Cottonwood AZ he came back to his home in Winslow where he died. The family home for many many years there was 622 N. Fleming, slated to now be sold as of this date (1993) after Nellie died.
Nellie died from complications of a bout with pneumonia several years before he death, the
subsequent poor health resulting in an enlarged and weakened heart. While her daughter Margaret Ann was having a "short visit" with her in the hospital, Nellie died in mid sentence while Margaret Ann looked on in shock. Margaret Ann called for the emergency help and gave Nellie mouth-to-mouth resuscitation but to no avail.
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