Individual Details

Loren Waldo Reynolds

(1 Aug 1878 - 21 Mar 1910)

Greene Iowa Register, Greene, Iowa, Wednesday, March 23, 1910, Front Page, Col. 3: Loren Waldo Reynolds, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Reynolds, born in Pleasant Grove township, Floyd county, Iowa, August 1, 1878, was suddenly killed at his post of duty by a wreck* on a fast freight train of the Rock Island road, near Shellsburg, Iowa, Monday morning at 12:30, March 21, 1910. The deceased was married to Miss Maude Shafer, Dec. 31, 1901. From this union four children were born. Bernice Genevieve, Lawrence and Lamoyne, all of whom survive him. He was a member of the K. of P. lodge and also the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Had he lived he would soon have been promoted to the place of conductor. He leaves a broken hearted wife, four dear little children, a sister and a brother and a stricken father and mother and many other relatives and friends. *The same page has a full text of the train wreck.

Events

Birth1 Aug 1878Pleasant Grove, Floyd Co., Iowa
Marriage31 Dec 1901Eva "Maude" Shafer
Death21 Mar 1910Shellsburg, Benton Co., Iowa
BurialRose Hill Cemetery, Greene, Butler Co., Iowa

Families

SpouseEva "Maude" Shafer (1878 - 1968)
FatherJoseph Theodore Reynolds (1854 - 1938)
MotherHenrietta Krafft (1855 - 1918)
SiblingElva Mae Reynolds (1881 - 1981)
SiblingDick Reynolds (1898 - 1982)

Endnotes

1. Ancestry.com.

2. Obituary of Loren Waldo Reynolds, Greene Iowa Register, Greene, Iowa, Wednesday, March 23, 1910, Front Page, Col. 3.

3. Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2006), Database online..

4. Obituary of Eva Maude Shafer Reynolds, Greene Recorder, Greene, Iowa, Wednesday, January 18, 1968, Front Page, Col. 5.

5. Obituary of Loren Waldo Reynolds, Greene Iowa Register, Greene, Iowa, Wednesday, March 23, 1910, Front Page, Col. 3.

6. Ancestry.com.

7. Obituary of Loren Waldo Reynolds, Greene Iowa Register, Greene, Iowa, Wednesday, March 23, 1910, Front Page, Col. 3.

8. Ancestry.com.