N.O. Reynolds

Reynolds was born in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, in 1846, and his only documented Civil War service was as a private in the 147th Illinois Infantry. He reached Texas in 1872 and enlisted on May 25, 1874, in Cicero R. Perry's ranger company, later serving under Dan W. Roberts, J. M. Denton and Neal Coldwell and in Maj. John B. Jones's escort. He also held John P. Ringo, later known in Tombstone, and one of his men arrested the dying Sam Bass at Round Rock in 1878. James B. Gillett called him the Intrepid.

What the plaque says

N.O. Reynolds Lieutenant Nelson Orcelus Reynolds was a noted Texas lawman. Born in 1846 in Pennsylvania, Reynolds served in the Union army during the Civil War. In 1874, he enlisted as a Texas Ranger in Blanco County. Reynolds captured the Horrell brothers and forced them to sign a peace treaty to end the feud with the Higgins faction. As a result, he was given command of the newly formed Company "E." Reynolds was later responsible for jailing, transporting, and guarding John Wesley Hardin for his trial in Comanche County. He retired from Ranger service in 1879 and later served as Lampasas County sheriff. He married Irene T. Nevill in 1882. The couple had two children and lived in Center Point, where Reynolds was buried after his 1922 death. (2010)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Treue der Union Monument — 7.8 mi
  An 1866 German-language monument in Comfort over the graves of Hill Country Unionists killed at the Nueces in 1862, its flag of thirty-six stars kept at half-staff.
• Schreiner Mansion — 9.9 mi
  The 1879 downtown home of Charles Schreiner, the Alsatian-born merchant, banker and rancher whose store and mohair trade built Kerrville.
• Frontier Times Museum — 14 mi
  A museum built of fossils, petrified wood and cave formations in Bandera, holding a printer-historian's collection of frontier relics and oddities.
• Old Tunnel State Park — 17 mi
  A railroad tunnel abandoned in 1942 that now shelters up to three million Mexican free-tailed bats, who fly out each evening from May through October.

More markers nearby

• Center Point Cemetery — steps away
• Center Point Christian Church — 0.5 mi
• Center Point School — 0.5 mi
• Center Point United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi