Ancestry of
Amy Adams

Movie Actress

William Fletcher Reynolds

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Amy Adams — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 46 
  • Father:
  • James Burt Reynolds 
  • Mother:
  • Eliza Ann Lawrence   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Aug 1826 
  • Birth Location:
  • Harrisburg, Fayette, Indiana 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Apr 1904 
  • Death Location:
  • Sanford, Conejos, Colorado 
  • Burial Date:
  • 17 Apr 1904 
  • Burial Location:
  • Sanford Cemetery, Sanford, Conejos, Colorado 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Anna Hawley
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 or 24 FEB 1846 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Davis County, Iowa 
  • Child:

  Ellis Reynolds (Ahnentafel No:23 )

  • Notes: 

  • William Fletcher Reynolds was a Mormon who practiced bigamy as he was married to at least three wives.

• Additional marriages for William Fletcher Reynolds

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  • Spouse:
  • Anna Kirstina Larson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Oct 1861

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  • Spouse:
  • Nielsine Kirstine Thomasen
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Nov 1862

• Sources for William Fletcher Reynolds

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/07/2018).
  • ² Iowa, U.S., Select Marriages Index, 1758-1996, Marriage record for William Reynolds and Anna Hawley.
  • ³ Members of the Mormon Battalion, Record for William Fletcher Reynolds.
  • ⁴ Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848, Membership record for daughter Ellis Reynods.
  • ⁵ Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848, Membership record for the family of William Fletcher Reynolds.
  • ⁶ Salt Lake County, Utah, Death records, 1908-1949, Death record for daughter Ellis Reynolds Shipp.
  • ⁷ Sons of Utah Pioneers Memorial Gallery Index Cards, Record for William Fletcher Reynolds, gives birth as 06 AUG 1826 at Drakeville, Indiana.
  • ⁸ Esshom, Frank, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Company (1913), 925.
  • ⁹ Shipp, Ralph D., The Shipp Family Genealogy, Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1975), 137.

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