His ancestry came to America, Virginia, from Scotland, his grandfather, Joseph, being an old revolutionary soldier. His father, Washington Reynolds, one of two sons, married Miss Catherine Swan, of the well known, Maryland family, and raised a family of eight sons and one daughter, all of the highest respectability. Of these, Joseph and William yet reside in Virginia: Washington, In Louisville, Kentucky; Thomas M. S., in Nebraska; Charles D., and Benjamin F., in California; and Lucy, wife of Samuel Douglass, in Henderson, Texas.
