Reinhardt Family
James and Emma Helms Reinhardt
Emma was the daughter of Garmon and Emelia Helms.
James Alexander Reinhardt, born 1865 in Little River County Arkansas.
Picture was taken 1886, and James is holding a baseball glove in his hand.
James A. Reinhardt is one of five sons of Daniel M. Reinhardt and Mary Matilda Works Reinhardt. Daniel M. was one of nine children of Christian Jr Reinhardt and Mary Forney Reinhardt of Lincolnton, North Carolina. Son of Christian Reinhardt and Barbara Warlick Reinhardt of Lincolnton.
James A. Reinhardt, Emma Helms Reinhardt. Boys, born in Arkinda, are James Edward, John Quincy, and Charles Lillard Reinhardt.
Charles is the grandfather of Brenda Reinhardt, the submitter of these photographs.
Obituaries
January 28, 1929
FORMER CIRCUIT RIDER OF STATE BURIED HERE TODAY
J.A. REINHARDT SERVED EARLY CHURCHES IN UNSETTLED AREA:
Funeral services for J.A. Reinhardt, 63, one of the early circuit riders who took so active a part in the history of the state and who died Friday at his home at 3440 E. Haskell St., following a month’s illness of heart disease, were to be held today at 2 p.m. at the Memorial Christian Church, Thirteenth street and Wheeling Avenue, with Rev. W.A. Steele, pastor, officiating.
Burial was to follow at Rose Hill cemetery with the Tulsa Undertaking Co. in charge.
CAME FROM MUSKOGEE
Mr. Reinhardt had resided in Tulsa for four years during which time he was a salesman for the Price Mercantile Co. Prior to his removal here he was pastor of the Church of Christ at Muskogee. Reinhardt had been in the ministry since 1892 and during that time had preached in various state churches and taught in religious schools. He came to Oklahoma in 1907 from Arkansas and here joined the “Army of God” that fearless group of old circuit riders that accompanied the advance of civilization into the frontier.
TRAVELED ON HORSEBACK
For a number of years he served the sparsely settled counties of McIntosh and Hughes as a minister going from place to place on horseback and braving the dangers of what was then a lawless territory. He is survived by the widow and three sons: James E., Oklahoma City, John R., Muskogee, and Charles of the home address here.
CHARLES L. REINHARDT
BERKELEY, Sept 17
Funeral services will be held here today for Charles L. Reinhardt, 46, 172 West MacArthur Boulevard, who died Monday at a local hospital of a heart ailment.
An optician in charge of the optical department at Permanente Hospital for the past six years, Mr. Reinhardt was formerly connected with the American Optical Company as a manager of the Honolulu Branch in Hawaii, and was there during the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941.
A native of Arkinda, Ark., he had lived in Oakland since his return from Hawaii in 1942.
A deacon in the Church of Christ, Prince and Fulton streets, he was actively engaged in foreign missionary work for the church and was making arrangements for a missionary tour of Africa with his wife at the time of his death.
He is survived by his widow, Thelma, and five children, Stanley, 20, and Ann, 17, who were both enrolling in Hardin College, Searcy, Arkansas, when he died, and William, 19, John, 10, and Emma, 11, all of Oakland.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Church of Christ, with Everett W. Evans, minister of the Salinas Church of Christ, and William Baker, minister of the Berkeley Church, officiating. Interment will be in Mountain View Cemetery.
Copyright by Brenda Reinhardt – 2002
