A Family Known As "Gunn"

My grandfather was born in Abbeville, near Oxford, Mississippi. Counting me, my ancestors have been traced back 10 generations. submitted by Roberta Pruet Isenhower, Putnum, Callahan County, Texas.

• Nathaniel Gunn, b.1630, England. Married Sabrina Pope b England


• Thomas Gunn b. 1650, England, d. died in Virginia


• Thomas (2) Gunn, b.1689, d, Amelia Co. VA, (m) Sarah Boatright


• Daniel Gunn, b. about 1733,


• James Gunn, b. about 1785, d. 1819, (m) Tabitha Edmundson


• James Hains Gunn, b. 1812 in VA.; d. 1899, TX.
  (m) #1. Emily Caroline Saunders, b. 1812, d. 1847
  (m) #2. Mary Henrietta Hawkins b.1825 d. 1869
  (m) #3. Sarah (?) Rees [The Widow Watson] b. 1826, d. 1904
  (Birth dates on #2 & #3 hard to read.)


• James Robert Gunn, b. 17 Nov, 1834 ,d. 8 Dec. 1928 (m) Mary Elvira Mills, b. 19 Feb. 1839, d. 1914


• James Franklin Gunn, b. 13 May 1861, Abbeville, Lafayette Co. MS. d. 14 Sep. 1929 Moran Texas (m) Dora Lee Caldwell b. 23 Feb.1867 near Oxford, MS. d. 21 April 1935, Moran Texas.


• Rubye Dell Gunn, b. 21 Nov. 1891, near Oxford, MS. d. May 29, 1970 Putnam, Texas (m) John Elison Pruet, b. Ashland, Alabama d. 29 May 1974 Putnam, Texas


• Roberta Nell Pruet b. 25 April 1917, Las Animas Co. Colorado (m) John Davis Isenhower, b. 30 July 1914 Putnam, Callahan Co. TX. (These two are the parents of nine children.)