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Kay Cunningham

ROBERT SMITH HUNNICUTT

Robert Smith Hunnicutt, b May 2, 1853 in Falls County, Texas, d April 9, 1932 in Marlin, Texas and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery in Falls County - was one of seventeen children of Winfield Scott and Lucinda (Smith) Hunnicutt - natives of Tennessee. He was married on February 16, 1878 to Rosella Louise Varnado, b February 6, 1861 in Mississippi, d May 31, 1932 - a daughter of Charles and Rebecca (Davis) Varnado - natives of Mississippi.

Robert grew up at Blue Ridge where he was allowed by his grandfather, Abraham Isaacs, to sip his toddy, made from the liquor brewed in the brass still that his father brought from Tennessee. The family had a log office where they kept tax records levied by the county. Robert was a strong antiabolitionist, and members of the family were affected by Prohibition.

Robert was elected County Surveyor of Falls County in 1882, serving for twenty-three years. He resigned to become State Surveyor - serving to establish the boundary line between Texas and New Mexico in 1911 through January 1914. He was appointed by the Governor, Attorney General, and Land Commissioner to re-survey the 3,000,000 acres of land given for building the State Capitol at Austin, resulting in the recovery of 60,000 acres of land for the Public School Fund. At the time of his death, he was working to restore valued South Texas Oil Lands for the state.

Robert and Rosella Hunnicutt had nine children:

Lilla Hunnicutt, b 1878 in Marlin - married first to Sam Wood, a printer, and had three children: Reuben A. Wood, Mabel Wood, and Robert S. Wood. She married second to George E. Long, M.D., of Monterrey, Mexico.

Joanna Hunnicutt, b June 25, 1881, d October 19, 1882.

Robert Jasper Hunnicutt, M. D., b 1883 in Marlin, d 1949 at Bryan, Texas - married Emma Schuter and had Elizabeth Rosella (Hunnicutt) Stroud, and William Hunnicutt of Bryan, Texas.

Florence Hunnicutt, b March 3, 1885, d December 31,1958 - married James L. Woodland and had Rosella Woodland who married George Pauling, James L. Woodland, Jr.; and Annie Mae Woodland who married S. H. Finch.

Charles Winfield Hunnicutt, b June 15, 1887, d July 9, 1887 and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery.

Colonel Walter S. Hunnicutt, b January 20, 1889, d November 27,1963 - married Mary Lee Dunham and had Mary Scott Hunnicutt and Bobby Lee Hunnicutt.

Lee Varnado Hunnicutt, b November 8,1891- married Nell Barton - daughter of Thomas Killingsworth and Mary Estelle (Johnson) Barton, and had Walter Hunnicutt, L. B. Hunnicutt, and Ethel Lucille Hunnicutt.

J. R. Hunnicutt (later Sr.), b July 4,1894, d March 3, 1973 - married Lilly Grigsby Atchison.

Annie Hunnicutt, b January 6, 1898, d December 8, 1968 - married Carey Legett of Port Lavaca, Texas.

Edward Hunnicutt, b November 8, 1900, d November 26,1902 and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery.

Thomas Hunnicutt, b November 27, 1902, d January 5,1904 and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery.

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 240 column 2, page 241 column 1.

Member of Falls County Historical Commission.

CORRECTION

Submittted by

Margie McCain

Lilla Mae Hunnicutt was b. Nov. 12, 1878 in Copiah County, Mississippi, not Marlin. Married (?) Wolfe and was widowed in the 1900 census (where she was with her parents. I was never told this just found it by accident.) Married Samuel Mahan Wood October 02, 1900. Prob. in Marlin.

Ruby Mae Wood b. Abt. April 1902 in Marlin

Mable Lee Wood b. June 23, 1903 in Marlin

Robert Samuel Wood b. September 09, 1905 in Marlin

Sometime around 1907-1909 ?? (guessing on the date) she divorced him.

She married George Edward Long, MD (born in Spain of English parents) in the neighborhood of 1909-1910 (guessing again on the date).