EDWARD GUY GARRETT, SR.
SURNAMES: GARRETT, JACKSON, MCKISSICK, BRANDON,
CORNELISON, CAMPBELL, VARNADO, BARTON, BARGANIER, ALBERT, RUSH, EWING, JOHNSON.
Edward
Guy Garrett, b June 24,1888 at Stranger, Falls County, Texas, d August 29, 1966
in Marlin, Texas and buried in Hillcrest Cemetery there - was a son of James
Odell and Elizabeth Ann (Jackson) Garrett, and a grandson of Thomas McKissick
and Linea Frances (Brandon - Cornelison) Garrett - natives of Giles County,
Tennessee who settled in the Republic of Texas in 1840; and Dr. Thomas and
Elizabeth (Campbell) Jackson who married in Audrain County, Missouri and settled
in 1851 in Parker County, Texas before moving to Bremond, Robertson County,
Texas about 1861.
"Guy"
was reared in the Stranger Community, where he attended school. On October 12,
1911, he was married to Hattie Alma Varnado (called "Alma"), b January 26,1888
at Stranger, d April 25, 1953 in Marlin and buried in Calvary Cemetery - natives
of Copiah County, Mississippi who settled at Stranger, Falls County, Texas after
their marriage. Alma's father died when she and her sister were young children,
and she was reared by her step-father, Robert Jasper Garrett, who was a
half-brother to Guy's father, James Odell Garrett.
Alma was
teaching school at Stranger, but she resigned after her marriage, and she and
Guy moved to Marlin to a next door to Alma's family. Guy continued to
operate his farming and ranching interests in several locations in Falls County,
while rearing their four children. They were members of the First Presbyterian
Church of Marlin. Except for a few years from 1939 to the mid-1940's when they
returned to Stranger to live in the Robert Jasper Garrett home, they spent the
rest of their lives at their in Marlin.
Edward
Guy and Hattie Alma (Varnado) Garrett, Sr. had five children, but only four
survived birth.:
Nell
Lois Garrett, b June 6, 1914 at Stranger - married Henry Garland Barton and had
two children.
Edward
Guy Garrett, Jr., b November 11, 1918 in Marlin, Texas - married Velma Price
Barganier, and had three children.
Ralph
James Garrett, b May 19, 1923 in Marlin, Texas - married Betty Jo Albert, and
had three children.
Dick
Gordon Garrett, b May 16, 1931 in Marlin, Texas
- married Irene Rush, and had
four children.
After
Alma's death, Guy married second on July 10, 1954 to Mrs. Kathleen (Ewing)
Johnson, who had one daughter by her first husband, Gordon L. Johnson. When
Edward Guy Garrett, Sr. died, he had accumulated a sizeable estate.
Copyright Permission granted to Theresa
Carhart for printing the biographies of these Falls County Families to this Web
page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical
Commission, page 180 column 1 and 2.
Member of Falls County Historical Commission.