Husband: Hugh Gray REINIER
Birthdate: 9 Dec 1809
Birthplace: Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Death date: 3 Dec 1869
Place of death: Jackson Twp, Keokuk County, Iowa
Burial: Rock Creek Cem. Jackson Twp., Keokuk County, Iowa
Father: Hezekiah REINIER
Mother: Lilly Ann GRAY
Other spouses:

Marriage date: ca 1836
Marriage place: Hamilton County, Ohio?

Wife: Sarah Jane POTTENGER
Birthdate: ca 1814
Birthplace: Hamilton County, Ohio
Death date: 11 Feb 1889
Place of death: Jackson Twp, Keokuk County, Iowa
Burial:
Father: Samuel POTTINGER
Mother: Susannah WITHROW
Other spouses:

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Elizabeth Jane REINIER
Sex: F
Birthdate: 11Dec 1837
Birthplace: Ohio
Death date: 1883
Place of death: Iowa?
Burial:
Marriage date: 1853
Marriage place:
Spouses' names: Miles RUBY

Child No. 2: William G. REINIER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1838
Birthplace: Ohio
Death date: April, 1860
Place of death: Lancaster Twp, Keokuk Co, Iowa
Burial:
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Child No. 3: John W. REINIER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1839
Birthplace: Ohio
Death date: 1875
Place of death:
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Child No. 4: James Witherow POTTENGER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 26 Feb 1841
Birthplace: Hamilton Co, Ohio
Death date: 23 July 1909
Place of death:
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Marriage date: 19 April 1879
Marriage place:
Spouses' names: Elizabeth 'Lib' FOOR

Child No. 5: Samuel Richard REINIER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 21 November 1844
Birthplace: Ohio
Death date: 25 July 1915
Place of death:
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Marriage date: 6 Sept 1868
Marriage place:
Spouses' names: Amanda J. Troxel

Child No. 6: Joseph 'Newt' Newton REINIER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 22 Feb 1845/47
Birthplace: Ohio
Death date: 24 Dec 1924
Place of death: Jackson Twp, Keokuk County, Iowa
Burial: Rock Creek Cem. Keokuk County, Iowa
Marriage date: 15 June 1873
Marriage place: Iowa
Spouses' names: Cynthia Ann QUICK

Child No. 7: Thomas Jefferson REINIER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 22 Feb 1849/48
Birthplace: Iowa
Death date: 20 Feb 1922
Place of death: Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa
Burial:
Marriage date: 1 Jan 1873
Marriage place:
Spouses' names: Rhoda Jane COBBLER

Child No. 8: Hugh 'Wils' Wilson REINIER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 15 Mar 1850/51
Birthplace: Iowa
Death date: 20 Jan 1932
Place of death: Decatur County, Iowa
Burial:
Marriage date: 1 Jan 1870
Marriage place:
Spouses' names: Mary Frances SMITHART

Child No. 9: Jacob 'Jake' Anderson REINIER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 30 Oct 1852
Birthplace: Jackson Twp, Keokuk County, Iowa
Death date: 2 Oct 1924
Place of death: 1407 Ave D, Council Bluffs, Iowa
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Spouses' names: Julie Ann WHEELER

Child No. 10: Noble 'Nobe' Hezekiah REINIER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 20 June 1855
Birthplace:
Death date: 19 Jan 1923
Place of death:
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Marriage date: 1880
Marriage place:
Spouses' names: Georgia Anna TODD

Child No. 11: Elliott REINIER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1857
Birthplace: Iowa
Death date: 1868
Place of death: Iowa
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Child No. 12: Nancy Ellen REINIER
Sex: F
Birthdate: May 1859
Birthplace: Iowa
Death date: May 1860
Place of death: Iowa
Burial:
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Child No. 13: Albert 'Ab' Ambrose REINIER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 20 July 1861
Birthplace:
Death date: 22 July 1921
Place of death:
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Marriage date: 1885
Marriage place:
Spouses' names: Mary E. 'Lizzie' QUICK
 
 
Documentation:
1. Family records kept by Mrs. Lee (Dorothy) Reinier.
2. Glenn Reinier's mother.
3. Amey Reinier VanGent.
4. Keokuk County Courthouse Records.
5. 1870, 1880 Iowa Census Records.
6. 1860 Mortality Schedule for Keokuk County, Iowa.
7. Uniontown, PA Public Library.

Notes:
1. Hugh Gray Reinier was a farmer.
2. Elizabeth Foor b. 19 Aug 1850, Fayette Co, PA, d. Apr 1916.
3. Amanda J. Troxel b. 24 Feb 1847-d. 26 Oct 1935. She smoked a corncob pipe.
4. Thomas Jefferson Reinier's 2nd wife was Anna Matilda Harlan.
5. Jacob Anderson Reinier had measles when he was about two years old and became a deaf-mute. He was learning to talk before he had the measles. He had terrible temper because of his deafness. He was sent to the deaf school in Council Bluffs where he met his wife, also a deaf-mute.
6. Lizzie Quick b. 1866-d. 1948 was a niece of Cynthia Quick.
* Nancy Ellen died of measles (1860 Iowa Mortality Schedule).