From the memoir of her son-in-law, Rev. W. W. Murray:
"Nancy Jane Reynolds was born 1-22-1847 and married Richard Jobe Taylor, 1-26-1865. She was but a girl at the breaking ouf of the Civil War and had a very vivid recollection of those trying times. Those were dark days to her and left their sad imprint on her mind. I have often heard her tell of the time "The Yankees" as she called them, came through Newton County, MS, burned her father's barn, gin and destroyed much of the things they had to live on. She would almost cry when she told about the raid and about their taking a colt, which she claimed as hers, and a large man getting on it and riding off. She said the colt could hardly carry him. She did not have very much of an education but had a strong mind until weakened by disease. She was very industrious and it was through her industry and economy that the small salary earned by her husband enabled them to give their children a fairly good education.
She was a woman of strong convictions as to right and wrong and stood firmly for the right. If she owed you anything she would pay the last cent and expected others to do her the same way."
"Nancy Jane Reynolds was born 1-22-1847 and married Richard Jobe Taylor, 1-26-1865. She was but a girl at the breaking ouf of the Civil War and had a very vivid recollection of those trying times. Those were dark days to her and left their sad imprint on her mind. I have often heard her tell of the time "The Yankees" as she called them, came through Newton County, MS, burned her father's barn, gin and destroyed much of the things they had to live on. She would almost cry when she told about the raid and about their taking a colt, which she claimed as hers, and a large man getting on it and riding off. She said the colt could hardly carry him. She did not have very much of an education but had a strong mind until weakened by disease. She was very industrious and it was through her industry and economy that the small salary earned by her husband enabled them to give their children a fairly good education.
She was a woman of strong convictions as to right and wrong and stood firmly for the right. If she owed you anything she would pay the last cent and expected others to do her the same way."
From the memoir of her son-in-law, Rev. W. W. Murray:
"Nancy Jane Reynolds was born 1-22-1847 and married Richard Jobe Taylor, 1-26-1865. She was but a girl at the breaking ouf of the Civil War and had a very vivid recollection of those trying times. Those were dark days to her and left their sad imprint on her mind. I have often heard her tell of the time "The Yankees" as she called them, came through Newton County, MS, burned her father's barn, gin and destroyed much of the things they had to live on. She would almost cry when she told about the raid and about their taking a colt, which she claimed as hers, and a large man getting on it and riding off. She said the colt could hardly carry him. She did not have very much of an education but had a strong mind until weakened by disease. She was very industrious and it was through her industry and economy that the small salary earned by her husband enabled them to give their children a fairly good education.
She was a woman of strong convictions as to right and wrong and stood firmly for the right. If she owed you anything she would pay the last cent and expected others to do her the same way."
"Nancy Jane Reynolds was born 1-22-1847 and married Richard Jobe Taylor, 1-26-1865. She was but a girl at the breaking ouf of the Civil War and had a very vivid recollection of those trying times. Those were dark days to her and left their sad imprint on her mind. I have often heard her tell of the time "The Yankees" as she called them, came through Newton County, MS, burned her father's barn, gin and destroyed much of the things they had to live on. She would almost cry when she told about the raid and about their taking a colt, which she claimed as hers, and a large man getting on it and riding off. She said the colt could hardly carry him. She did not have very much of an education but had a strong mind until weakened by disease. She was very industrious and it was through her industry and economy that the small salary earned by her husband enabled them to give their children a fairly good education.
She was a woman of strong convictions as to right and wrong and stood firmly for the right. If she owed you anything she would pay the last cent and expected others to do her the same way."
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