Sarah "Sallie" Woolsey Reynolds (1815 - 1866)

Sallie was born in Tennessee, a daughter of Gilbert Woolsey and his cousin Abigail Mackey Woolsey. The family came to Livingston County, Missouri before 1839. Gilbert Woolsey was one of the first judges in Livingston Co. Sallie married William Reynolds (c1810 - 1862) in 1831 in Greene Co., Tennessee. The Reynolds family rented or lived with relatives in Livingston Co. for several years, finally establishing their own homestead north of the present town of Mooresville in Section 6. There they built a large, two-story log home. It was told that one day a bear wandered into the yard of the log home. With all the men and boys working in the fields, Sallie killed the bear single handedly. With the passing of William and Sallie, the homestead passed into the hands of their oldest son, Stephen Woolsey Reynolds (1837 - 1907). Stephen was a Confederate veteran of the Civil War and was highly regarded in the neighborhood. He married Louisa Mann and had twelve children. It is likely that all of those children were born in the old log home. William and Sallie's oldest child, Abigail Reynolds, married Thomas Benton Maddux of Mooresville Township.

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