Individual Details

1850 Census. Owsley, KY, Hh 22
Richard Reynolds, 48, farmer, b. Ky as was the whole family
Mima, 43
John, 19. Levi, 16. Eli, 14. Elihue, 10. Jeremiah, 6


Find A Grave Memorial# 98777518
Co B 5th Reg, Inf, Confederate
Elihu was a musician in the service (Fifer)
Lived in Owsley county and made Federally licensed moonshine and Whiskey

1907
Moonshiners on Way to Frankfort:
Deputy U.S. Marshall, W.M. Mays, the most noted foe of the moonshiner in Eastern KY, arrived here Sunday afternoon from Jackson with a gang of 18 "shiners" to take them to Frankfort where they will be tried in the Federal court which convened at the capital today. Marshal Mays has been capturing moonshiners for six years, and he has his first man yet to put under lock and key while on way to court, and there has never been one of his prisoners attempt to escape from him. When he arrived here with his men he remarked to them:
"Well boys, this is probably the last night that many of you will have an opportunity to have some fun for some time," and giving each man some money told him to get out and have some fun, but to report at the hotel at 11 o'clock last night. They were all in on time, and they were taken to Frankfort today.
" There's no use for them to run from me," said Marshall Mays, for they know that I will get them and there is not a man in the bunch that wouldn't fight for me. If you don't think they will just tackle me once when I am taking them to Frankfort. They haven't any guns and the lid is on here, so why should they be locked up in jail."
Among the prisoners are Mack Bowling, Elihu Reynolds, P. Barrett, John Sandlin, Sug Sandlin, Elijah Couch, Elijah Sandlin, Wm Morrris, Eli Couch and a number of others. All of them are charged with moonshining and bootlegging. Several of the men were captured last week by Marshall Mays on this raids on the mountain stills in Owsley and Breathitt.
Elihu owned and operated the only legal Moonshine business in Owsley County which was named the Elihu Reynolds Distillery. He employed John C. Woods as the head distiller. In 1876, after many years of friendly personal and business relations with the two had a falling out and a pistol and knife fight ensued. Elihu shot and killed John.
The Decatur Review
Decatur Illinois
April 17, 1907
Feb. 1,
Elihu Reynolds, the distiller and logger of Owsely County, who shot and killed John Woods a few weeks since at his log camp in Perry county, and in which fight he received severe cuts in the face at the hands of Woods, has become a raving maniac and his life is despaired of.

16 May 1912. Approved Application for Confederate Pension in the Civil War. Served in Co B, 5th Regt, KY Infantry. He was born In Owsley Co, 7 Mar 1841. Enlisted 1 Aug 1862 under Col Hiram Hawkins and Capt. W.T.B. South - Surrendered and paroled at Washington, GA about 6 May 1865. Earns nothing - owns an old horse and one cow worth about $75. His wife has one poor hillside farm, about 170 acres, worth about $600, some hogs and sheep. Their income the past year was about $25. He had lived in Kentucky all his life. W. B. Bullock of Booneville, Owsley, KY was his attorney. He signed his name.
H. C. Comb, who seems to have both the clerk and the physician, or the physican is never named, stated he was not able to perform manual labor due to rheumatism affecting all of his large joints and neuralgia and the effects of advanced age.
Louis Sizemore testified to his war service as he served with him.

Not found in the 1920 census.

Kentucky Death Certificate #7117
Elihu Reynolds died 6 Feb 1929 in Madison Co, KY of influenza. Marital status not marked, nor is a date of birth, although he was said to 87 years, 4 months, and 7 days at death. He was born in Kenrucky. Parents are listed as Richard Reynolds, and Mina Owens
W. P. Reynolds of Eversole, KY was the informant. Elhu was buried Cow Creek Cemetery on Feb 8th.

Birth	7 Jan 1840	Clay County, Kentucky
Marriage	28 Apr 1858	Owsley County, Kentucky - Sarah Ann Wilson
Death	6 Feb 1929	Owsley County, Kentucky

Spouse	Sarah Ann Wilson (1837 - 1913)
Child	Jeremiah Reynolds (1863 - )
Child	William P. Reynolds (1872 - )
Child	Mary Belle Reynolds (1873 - 1947)
Child	Amelia Reynolds (1876 - )
Child	Charles E. Reynolds (1879 - )