Chauncey McReynolds was one of the young men in the Sharon Community who
     was called to serve in the Army during World War I. As a result of serious
     shrapnel wounds suffered while serving in battle in Balleau Woods and
     Marne River areas of France, he spent a great deal of time in Veteran or
     general hospitals. He was a member of the American Legion Post in Sharon
     and the Masonic Lodge in Hazelton. He received fifty year membership pins
     from both organizations.
       He was the youngest of two sons of Frank and Anna Bertha Lindtner
     McReynolds and was born March 3, 1890, on the homestead in Cedar Township.
       He attended rural school at Cdar Hill and later went to school in 
     Medicine Lodge and Anthony. He was a farmer-rancher in so far as his 
     health would permit.
       For several years some of the Angus cattle raised on the ranch were
     sent to the Flint Hills area for pasture. Chauncey stayed at Latham and
     looked after them. He also enjoyed riding the train and shipping cattle
     to the Kansas City Livestock Market.
       Chauncey, along with his brother Toss, the McKeever boys, and the
     Maddox boys enjoyed coyote hunting, working cattle, and hunting together.
     He went to town nearly every day, where he enjoyed loafing at Homer White's
     filling station or with his good friend Ralph Owen at the Bank in Sharon.
       Chauncey was a quiet person who did not meet people easily. He enjoyed
     reading until his eye sight failed, and then turned to the radio for
     entertainment. In later years he enjoyed fish frys, fishing, and card
     games with good friends or neighbors.
       Although Uncle Chauncey never married, he was devoted to a young nurse
     who cared for him while he was in the hospital in France during the war.
     As the story was told to me, they were to have been married, but she was
     stricken with an illness and in short time died. She was an American girl
     serving with the Red Cross during the war.
       He ws president of the Sharon Valley State Bank, a position he had held
     for several years at the time of his death on June 14, 1972.
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 308 
     Submitted by: Wilda McReynolds Mathews