Payne Gap Cemetery Directory

Maggie D. (Dell) [Hunt] Hunt (1886-1965)

Names Detail

First Name

Maggie

Middle Name

D. (Dell)

Maiden Name

Hunt

Last Name

Hunt

Birth and Death

Birth Date

February 8, 1886

Death Date

December 27, 1965

Age at Death

79 year(s), 10 month(s), 19 day(s)

Cemetery Location and Disposition

Cemetery Location

Row 06, Grave 21 | Map

Disposition Type

Burial

Relationships to Others at the Cemetery

External Links

Notes

Maggie’s father was John Martin Abner “Mart” Hunt (1850-1926), brother of Levi Golden Hunt (1865-1919), and her mother was Nancy Elizabeth Hughes (1855-1935). They married on January 13, 1873, in Bastrop, Texas.

Willie Duncan elaborated, “Mart Hunt married Lizzie Hughes, a sister of Marion Sippo Hughes. Mart and Lizzie Hughes Hunt’s children were Maude (Mathis), Pearl (Howard), Maggie (Hunt), Oma (Kimbro), Iva Joe (Wilkey), Silas, Plez, and Manley. Mart and Lizzie Hunt are buried in the Payne Gap Cemetery in Mills County, Texas. Mart And Lizzie Hunt lived and owned land joining the W.A. Patterson home place northeast of Moline.”

Obituary published in The Brownwood Bulletin, December 28, 1965, Page 2:

Funeral services for Mrs. Arthur H. (Maggie Dell) Hunt, 79, will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Wilkins Funeral Home with burial in Payne Gap Cemetery. Mrs. Hunt, pioneer resident of Mills County, died Monday in a Goldthwaite hospital at 8:30 a.m. She was born Fab. 8, 1886, in Williamson County. She married A.H. Hunt, Aug. 18, 1913, in Lampasas and was a member of the Church of Christ. Survivors include her husband; one son, Fred Hunt of Danciger; two daughters, Miss Evelyn Hunt of Brownwood and Mrs. LaVada Moore of Oklahoma City; three stepdaughters, Mrs. Bennie Lancaster and Mrs. Ruby Jordan, both of Abilene; a stepdaughter in California; one stepson, Lawrence Hunt of Lancaster; three sisters, Mrs. Pearl Howard of Goldthwaite, Mrs. Maude Mathis of Lometa and Mrs. Omie Kimbro of Georgetown, 13 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.

Images and Documents

Photograph of Maggie, third from left
Death Certificate
Obituary, Brownwood Bulletin Tue, Dec 28, 1965, Page 2
Monument

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