[1] Reynolds was the first president of the Forsyth Country Club and commissioned a nine-hole golf course to be built.

[4] In 1925, Reynolds founded another golf course, Roaring Gap, about an hour away from Winston-Salem and also designed by Ross.

[5] Smith died mysteriously of a gunshot wound to the head at his parents' estate, Reynolda House, on July 6, 1932.

His pregnant wife, broadway starlet Libby Holman, and best friend Albert Walker were indicted for the murder, in a sensational case that garnered national attention.

[5] Reynolds contacted the district attorney and asked for the charges against his nephew's alleged killers to be dropped; the prosecutor eventually did so for lack of evidence, and no trial on the matter was ever held.

[6] Reynolds built a 1,117-acre (4.52 km2) country estate on the Yadkin River near Winston-Salem, Tanglewood Park Arboretum and Rose Garden, and moved into it in 1921.