Elizabeth McReynolds

Name: Elizabeth SHEPHERD 1

Sex: F

Birth: ABT 1694 in Cungannon or Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, Ireland 1

Birth: ABT 1694

Death: in Appomatox, VA 1

Burial: ,Appomatox Co., VA 1

Ancestral File #: 6

Change Date: 22 APR 2000 1

Father: Solomon SHEPHERD

Marriage 1 Johne MacRannald or MC REYNOLDS b: 11 AUG 1672 in Glean Spean, Keppoch, District of Lochaber, Scotland

Married: 18 JUN 1714 in Grange Mtg., Charlemont, Co. Tyrone, Ireland 1

Married: 18 JUN 1714 in Grange Mtg., Charlemont, Co., Tyrone, Ireland

Children

Joseph MC REYNOLDS b: ABT 1716 in Killyman, Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, Ireland

Elizabeth MC REYNOLDS b: 1717 in Killyman, Nr Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, Ireland
James MC REYNOLDS b: 1719 in Killyman, Nr Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, Ireland
Robert MC REYNOLDS b: 1722 in Killyman, Nr Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, Ireland

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After the departure of Elizabeth and his children to America, Johne returned to his Episcopalian faith and the Church of Ireland to live out the remainder of his years with the children of his first marriage. Tradition states that Johne McRannald died at the home of his grandson in 1760 at Stewartstown, County Tyrone. He is buried in a family plot at the nearby Ballyclog Parish cemetery. This is our second indication that Johne was not "tight laced"to any church or religion but it was his preference to be buried at a site which was of his choice, Episcopalian.

Source: "McReynolds, a Noble Clan" by William Howard McReynolds

Pg 16,17,44,45 Quote:

The only mention we have of Elizabeth Shepherd McReynolds in America is from the Quaker records:

1739, 11 mo., 26 Elizabeth McRanels received on Certificate into the New Garden Monthly Meetings, Cecil County, Maryland.

1744, 5 mo., 26 Elizabeth McRennils granted certificate to Nottingham Monthly Meeting, Cecil County, Maryland.

We have been told that there were no Quaker Meeting Houses in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania at this time.

Source: Quote from the Benjamin McReynolds Papers (Grandson of Elizabeth):

" My grandmother, long before her husband's decease, removed to America with her children, Joseph, James, Robert, and Elizabeth. They settled in Lancaster County, in the state of Pennsylvania. In the town of Lancaster my father James, and my uncle Robert learned the carpenters' trade. Robert died of the pleurasy soon after he was free from his apprenticeship."

Source: the McReynolds Family Newsletter by John McReynolds, Chesapeake, Va.

Volume 1 Spring 1970; Quote:

Elizabeth Shepherd McReynolds and her family

"Three sons and one daughter were born to John and Elizabeth--- Joseph, James, Robert and Elizabeth. For some reason unknown, John McReynolds and his second wife seperated, he going to live with his children by his first marriage. Elizabeth and her four children then decided to emigrate to America, reaching America in the year 1742*. Her oldest son Joseph, the ancestor of all the McReynolds in this part of the state, had married before leaving Ireland and was about twenty-one years old at the time they came to America. As Elizabeth was a Quaker, she naturally thought of the colony of Pennsylvania and first settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Here they came under the influence of The Whitfield revival and all joined Presbyterian Church to which each one of them remained faithful to the end of life. Elizabeth, the daughter, married a man by the name of John Rogers and they had four sons and one daughter--Thomas, William, Joseph, James and Elizabeth. They first settled in Maryland but after some years they moved to Western Pennsylvania, where the son William and others were killed by the Indians. Robert, the younger son of John and Elizabeth McReynolds, died when only twenty-one years of age and unmarried.

James, the second son of John and Elizabeth, was born in the year 1724, in the county of Tyron, Ireland and was about seventeen years old when they arrived in America."

(excerpts from The McReynolds by John Samuel McReynolds of Indiana)

• research indicates that this date should be either 1737 or 1738.

Source: Genealogy Written by Claud F. McReynolds, Quote:

ELIZABETH

Left John in Ireland and came to America with her four children in 1738. She settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The trip across the Atlantic Ocean took six weeks, the ship having lost its way. The provisions became exhausted, and the passengers faced starvation, fortunately another ship hove in sight "looking like a big buzzard" as some of the passengers expressed it, and aided them to complete their journey. Not a very auspicious beginning to start life in the new world.

One wishes to know the motivation that brought Elizabeth and her family to America. She died at an old age at the home of her son James in Appomattox County, Virginia.