Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Muhlenberg Co.

J. H. RENO was born in Muhlenburg [sic] County, April 25, 1817, and is the 
sixth of seven children (three boys and two girls living) born to Lewis 
and Sallie (Kincheloe) Reno, natives of Culpeper County, Va., of French 
and Scotch-Irish descent, respectively.  The grandfather of our subject, 
Lewis Reno, is said to have been born in France.  The original name is 
Renault.  The grandfather kept a hotel in Virginia, and in 1790 moved to 
Nelson County, Ky.  About ten years later he came to Muhlenburgh [sic] 
County and settled near Kincheloe's Bluff on Green River, where he entered 
several hundred acres of land, on which he lived the rest of his days.  
The grandfather William Kincheloe had several sons in the Revolution; he 
was a native of Virginia, and moved to Nelson County about 1790, where he 
died.  The family moved to different parts of the State, mostly to 
Muhlenburgh County.  Gen. Kincheloe died on the way to Tippecanoe under 
Gen. Shelby, in Ohio, during the war of 1812; he lived in Muhlenburgh
County.  J. H. Reno was reared on a farm until seventeen, and received a 
fair common school education.  At seventeen he commenced as salesman for 
Edward Rumsey, of Greenville, which he continued until elected clerk of 
the county court in 1854, which position he filled for twelve years.  In 
1866, he engaged in the dry goods business, which he followed until 1872; 
in 1874, was appointed collector of internal revenue for Second Kentucky 
District which office he filled twenty-nine months.  In 1880, he located 
in Central City, where he has been engaged in the general merchandise 
business ever since.  In December, 1883, he was appointed deputy collector 
by E. Farley.  In the fall of 1861, he was quartermaster for Eleventh 
Kentucky; in December was transferred to the Fifth Division, as 
quartermaster; in March, 1862, resigned and returned home.  J. H. Reno was 
married February 27, 1842, to Fannie Young of Muhlenburgh County, a native 
of Ohio County, and a daughter of Richard and Eliza (Rumsey) Elliot.  Ten 
children were born to this union, four living: Jane, wife of Lewis Martin 
Morleyand, of Missouri; Agness (Offett); Jessie (Murray), residing in 
Louisville, and Edward.  Mr. Reno's second wife died December 31, 1866, 
a member of the Presbyterian Church, and he next married, November 11, 
1868, Mary P. Martin of Bowling Green, a daughter of W.P. and Susan (Bayly) 
Payne, natives of Mason County, Ky., and Stafford County, Va., respectively.  
Her father was of Scotch-Irish origin.  Mr. and Mrs. Reno are memebers of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church and Christian Church, respectively.  Mr. 
Reno is a Mason.

Reno Kincheloe Renault Shelby Rumsey Farley Young Elliot Offett Murray 
Martin Payne Bayly
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Culpeper-VA France Nelson Ohio MO Mason Stafford-VA

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