Reynolds Family

Biographical Sketch

From:

The History and one line of

descendants of Robert and Mary Reynolds

(1630?-1928) of

Boston, Massachusetts

by

Marion H. Reynolds

Reynolds Family Association

Published by Reynolds Family Association

1928,

Brooklyn, NY

Pages 75 to 81

 Page 80

THE SEVENTH GENERATION

Lydia Ann Reynolds (1811-1893) 

     LYDIA ANN REYNOLDS was b. Valatie, Columbia Co., N. Y., May 24, 1811; d. December 5, 1893, aged 82-7.  She was named for her sister Lydia who died aged twenty-two just a month before this Lydia's birth.  She m. Smith M. Beebe, May 8, 1831, who was b. April 15, 1808; d. Jany. 7, 1862, at the home of his son Mortimer in Hudson, N. Y.  He passed his early life in Chatham, but after marriage spent most of his life in nearby Valatie.  He had the fine physique of his grandmother, inheriting also her aquiline nose and blue eyes.  His hair was brown and abundant, but his moustache and whiskers were sandy, a tint which came from his mother's side.

     Beebe Children:

801. MORTIMER WILSON, b. Oct. 19, 1832; d. March 22, 1889; m. Sarah Burger Kidney, who d. December, 1922, in Denver.  They removed to Denver in 1879.  She was member of St. John's Church; St. Luke's Hospital Association.  Their two children were:  Anna, who died young; Adele, b. Hudson, N. Y., Nov. 30, 1863; m. Francis W. Loveland, and they had 1. Francis Percy, b. June 11, 1885, Denver, who m. Miss Cathleen Elizabeth McAliney, Sept. 24, 1917; divorced; Francis was educated at Yale University.  He owns the Loveland Genealogy.  In the World War he was First Lieut., 115th Trench Mortar Battery; service from Aug. 5, 1917, to Jany. 25, 1919.  He is member Denver Country Club; D. K. E.; past commander American Legion Post.  Resides in Berthoud, Colo.  2. Harold Montgomery, b. April 7, 1888; d. Denver, Nov. 2, 1894, aged six.

802.  EDMOND, b. Jany. 21, 1834; d. 1834, in infancy.

803.  AURELIA, b. May 26, 1836; d. May 17, 1886; m. 1858, Charles D. Smythe, Kinderhook, N. Y.  He was interested in mining and lived at Baltimore.  His name was originally Tavalski.  His father was a Polish officer (a picture of him shows his breast covered with medals) who fled during a Revolution to Germany, taking the name of Schmidt.  Later, in America, the son changed the name to Smythe at the request of his wife.  One child, Fannie Starr, b. Nov. 28, 1860, Hudson, N. Y.; m. Rev. Alfred Kingsley Glover of Boston, Nov. 26, 1882, in N. Y. City; b. Roxbury, Mass., m. Jany. 4. 1861, son of Alfred Richardson & Mary Louise (Bodge) Glover.  Fannie attended Gardner's Female College and schools of N. Y. City.  They now [1928] reside at Cedar Pine Lodge, Grossmont, Calif., and have Edith Starr, b. N. Y. City, July 27, 1887, m. 1st, Charles Albion Tuttle, Auburn, Calif., Oct. 17, 1905; 2nd Claude K. Webster, Grossmont Cal., July 23, 1923; two children:  Charles Kingsley Tuttle, b. Aug. 4, 1906, San Diego; and Mary Edith Tuttle, b. Sacramento, March 25, 1915.

*804. AUDELLA, b. Feby. 14, 1840; m. Professor Alpheus Hyatt, Jany 7, 1867.  Their history is given more fully in the next chapter.

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^†One Family Bible gives it July 17, 1765.

^‡Valatie, a Dutch diminutive, means 'Little Falls.'