Purley is a different line. I know the name from the book Gunter but that's about it. Sorry. Paul At 10:51 PM 10/31/09 -0500, you wrote: >Any relation to Purley Gunter, son of John Gunter who married Rececca Price? > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Beaurega" <beaurega@westol.com> >To: <TXFannin@rootsweb.com>; <TXWood@rootsweb.com>; <TXCOOKE@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 7:18 PM >Subject: [TXFANNIN] Abner Gunter reference in Fannin Texas. > > >> Hi, >> >> I found this Abner Gunter reference while searching the Fannin County, >> Texas site. >> >> http://www.txfannin.org/book/souvenir/s563.html >> >> It says, "Phoebe (Maby), married Abner Gunter, and (he) died during the >> Civil War, leaving a daughter. Henche P(arham). Mabry educated himself", >> etc. >> >> So this is the marriage of Phoebe Mabry Gunter listed in Wood County, TX >> in >> 1860. She and her mother, Linea/Lynea Stallings of GA, were the in-laws >> of >> the Lemuel Gunter and Rebecca Williams family and this means that Phoebe >> Mabry Gunter was not married to Lintus/Lentis Gunter or S.C. Gunter. >> Well, >> I knew she was a daughter-in-law. The daughter above would be Ada Gunter >> born in 1858. So Abner Gunter married again before the Civil War started >> and Abner fathered Ada. >> >> So Abner was married in the 1850s probably in Wood County to Teressa Jane >> Varner and she died soon after the marriage in 1855 in Wood County. >> However, it looks like Abner lived into the 1860s and was in the Civil War >> and died there. However, after Teressa Jane Varner died, he married >> Phoebe >> / Phebe Mabry and this would explain why Jesse Lemuel Gunter married or >> met >> Emma Carter in Fannin Texas in January, 1875. It suggests that Abner >> Gunter even lived into the 1870s and Jesse was visiting him. >> >> Phoebe G. Mabry was born in Carroll Co, GA in 1838. Her dad is Henche P. >> Mabry Sr. of Carroll County and the bio talks about Abner married to >> daughter Phoebe Mabry. Linnia Williams is very interesting. I have her >> as >> a Stallings. Could she be a sister of Rebecca Williams that married >> Lemuel >> Gunter July 3, 1824 in NC? The Gunters are in Heard Co, GA in 1850. >> >> If I believe this account, it appears that Linea Stallings was a married >> name and Williams was her birth surname. Abner is not in the 1860 Wood >> County census with the other Gunters. If he was in the Civil War and died >> there, then he was alive in the 1860 census probably in Texas somewhere. >> Linea Stallings Mabry was born in 1800 according to the 1860 Wood County, >> TX census. >> >> Was Abner Gunter in the Third Texas Cav with H. P. Mabry? No. Was Abner >> Gunter in the Civil War? He is not listed in the Sailor and Soldiers >> roster site. All A. "x" Gunters were confirmed as Addison Yancey Gunter. >> I doubt Abner was missed as a soldier that died in the Civil War but >> maybe. >> He also is not in the 1860 Texas census anywhere in Texas under Gunter. >> He is not the Gunter in Nacogdoches. he is not in Wood County with his >> parents or siblings but Phebe G. Mabry Gunter and her daughter are. >> >> Does anyone know what happened to Abner Gunter, brother of William >> Washington, Addison Yancy, Jesse Lemuel, Joseph Harper, Jot, Ike J., etc., >> Gunter? >> >> Wouldn't it be strange if "Linnia / Linea Williams" was the daughter of >> Levin Williams of NC? Does anyone have more infomation on Henchia / >> Henche >> P. Mabry Sr., his family, and descendants? >> >> Paul Beauregard >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TXFANNIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXFANNIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >