Family Cemetery

Family Cemetery. Reynolds Homestead. , The Reynolds Family Cemetery spans many generations - from the beginning of Rock Spring Plantation in the 1800s to the present. Abraham and Mary "Polly" Reynolds, who first settled in Patrick County, are buried here along with their son David, who died at 25 years of age., Their surviving son Hardin Reynolds, patriarch and owner of the Rock Spring Plantation, and seven of his 16 children are buried here. Hardin's wife, Nancy Jane Cox Reynolds, is buried in Bristol, Tennessee. Other descendants interred here include Richard S. Reynolds, Jr. (President of Reynolds Metals), and J. Sargeant Reynolds, the 30th Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia., The tobacco businessman R. J. Reynolds was born at Rock Spring Plantation, but is buried in a cemetery near Old Salem, North Carolina., Nancy Susan Reynolds, the granddaughter of Hardin and Nancy Jane Reynolds, and the youngest daughter of R. J. Reynolds, is interred in the family cemetery. In December 1969, she granted 717 acres to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. In 1970 Ms. Reynolds coordinated a restoration of the Reynolds home and worked with relatives to secure much of the original furniture for the home. In 1979, she set up an endowment used to construct the Community Enrichment Center designed to enhance the cultural life of the region by sponsoring performances, lectures, seminars, special events and classes., The Reynolds family has a strong tie to Virginia Tech. Hardin Harbour Reynolds, the third son of Hardin and Nancy Jane Reynolds, attended Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (now known as Virginia Tech) and was a member of the first graduating class.