A Marriage and a Death
In December of 1874, these items appeared in The Atlanta Constitution:

Letter from Sister to John
In 1835, twenty years after John had left his family in New York, he sent a message by a northbound traveler to tell them of his existence.  This was the first word they had heard from him in all those…

John and the Steamboat
John's father, Silas Reynolds, had a brother John Reynolds (for whom this John Reynolds was named.)  Old Uncle John was a pet of King George III of England and was appointed by him to be the first Provincial/Colonial Governor of…