WILLIAM HOWELL VARNADO
William Howell Varnado, b December 22, 1866 in Copiah County,
Mississippi, d November 29,1894 after an accident with a horse, and buried in
the Stranger Cemetery at Stranger, Falls County, Texas - was a son of Charles
and Rebecca Jane (Davis) Varnado- natives of Mississippi, who were the parents
of five children who settled in Falls County, Texas.
William Howell Varnado married in Lincoln County, Mississippi to Angela
Lola McInnis (later reversed to Lola Angela), b March 29, 1871 in Mississippi, d
July 18, 1951 and buried by her second husband, Robert Jasper Garrett, in
Calvary Cemetery in Marlin, Falls County, Texas - a daughter of Thomas Josea and
Delilah (Chiles) McInnis. William Howell and Lola Varnado - traveling with the
family of his brother, Cornelius Willington Varnado, moved to Texas after the
remarriage of their mother in 1887, and settled in the Stranger Community of
Falls County, where he became a tenant farmer for Robert Jasper Garrett, who had
large holdings in the Stranger Community, and elsewhere. Two daughters were born
to William Howell and Lola (McInnis) Varnado - both born at Stranger:
Hattie Alma Varnado, b January 26,1888, d April 25, 1953 in Marlin, Falls
County, Texas and buried in Calvary Cemetery in Marlin - married October 12,
1911 in an unusual wedding ceremony performed by Reverend Robert Reed Crockett
with the bride and groom in the groom's buggy, to Edward Guy Garrett, b June
24,1888 at Stranger, Falls County, Texas, d August 29, 1966 in Marlin, and
buried in Hillcrest Cemetery in Marlin - a son of James Odell and Elizabeth Ann
(Jackson) Garrett, of the Stranger Community.
Lila Rebecca Varnado, b November 1889 at Stranger - married Edgar Bright
Hoover, and had Jeanne Marie Hoover and Alice Evelyn Hoover, and moved out of
the county.
After the death of William Howell Varnado, Lola returned to Mississippi
with her two young daughters. Robert Jasper Garrett, whose first wife had died,
following the young widow to Mississippi, where he wooed and won her, and Lola
was married second on June 25, 1896 in Mississippi to Robert Jasper Garrett, b
April 14, 1841 in the part of Houston County, Texas which later became Anderson
County, d April 29, 1918 and buried in Calvary Cemetery in Marlin - a son of
Thomas McKissick Garrett and his first wife, Margaret Minerva (Reed) Garrett. He
was a half-brother to the father of his
step-daughter's husband. Robert Jasper and
Lola (McInnis) Garrett were the parents of one daughter:
Mabel Erma Garrett, b August 4, 1897 at Stranger, who married James
Mortimer Steele, and had George Peabody Steele, and Lola Pauline Steele.
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 466 column 1 and 2.
Member of Falls County Historical Commission.
