tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post1670633441605133153..comments2023-11-27T03:48:51.986-05:00Comments on Howard Pyle: Chincoteague, The Island of PoniesIan Schoenherrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04906881923887306477noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-43826006180471214952017-07-24T16:38:46.730-04:002017-07-24T16:38:46.730-04:00I, too, am descended from Jesters, Whealtons and o...I, too, am descended from Jesters, Whealtons and other early islanders and I don't wonder that this blend of fancy and some truth insulted many of them when they read this particular article (and yes, they could read because they had schools). Baptists, Methodists (possibly even the Sanctified Church) would have taken exception at their home being described as one step away from living in a Chincoteague74https://www.blogger.com/profile/01707749331664259267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-79971297416687833712013-02-09T16:16:23.612-05:002013-02-09T16:16:23.612-05:00hey perry i would like to get some info from you ...hey perry i would like to get some info from you on your family line, since we have the same Richard P Reynold in our family.. and they live in oyster too<br /><br />jamestsmith72 at gmail comAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13858836073149292153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-21593642409732655632011-06-11T08:38:21.846-04:002011-06-11T08:38:21.846-04:00Good Story! J.A.M. Whealton was my Great Great Gr...Good Story! J.A.M. Whealton was my Great Great Grandmothers Brother. Her name was Eliza Wheaton Reynolds, a noted herbal healer on the island in the mid and late 1800s. She died in 1906. My great great grandfather, her second husband, was Richard P. Reynolds, a shoemaker and a civil war veteran. Their son, my great grandfather, and his wife, Abbie Jester, eventually migrated to Oyster VA in Perry A. Reynoldsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-51021005824788566152010-09-17T10:02:03.019-04:002010-09-17T10:02:03.019-04:00What a great story. I have owned rentals on Chinc...What a great story. I have owned rentals on Chincoteague and still have many friends there. This article by HP really brings back the place, it hasn't changed that much it seems... it's still a trip back in time. Fun to read the same names of the families that live there and are still prominent today.<br /><br />Shame the drawings aren't Pyle's finished works though.Bil Hardenbergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04779242142296640109noreply@blogger.com