Starling GUNN

Birth:
9 May 1764
Brunswick, Va
Death:
13 Aug 1852
Caswell, North Carolina
Marriage:
5 Oct 1785
Nottoway, Va
Notes:
                   Starling Gunn tombstone is located at the Meth. Church cemetery in Yanceyville
NC,, It has been moved several times..  He served in the Revolutary War and
fired the first cannon in that war and also was a an eye witness to the
surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown.. Claim number 6941.   Starling Gunn
Will dated 15 May 1849 book Q page 662 in clerk of court office in Yanceyville
Caswell Co NC
Tombstone says died in 13 Aug 1852 age 88 yrs 3 Mo 4 da.  Moved to Meth Church
by Johnny Gunn..  The family history center used the Will date of Starling
Gunn as all birth  dates of Children.. Ordinance work was done accordingly to
Will date...    Birth dates of children were from family bible of Starling Gunn
recorded in Misc book in Caswell Co NC.. Also Mary Hooper birth date from bible
and tombstone at Meth Church in Yanceyville.. Misc book says the bible of
Starling Gunn is in possession of Miss Susie Blue Buchanan , of Brandon  Miss.
Elizabeth Miles on the settlement of estate of James Miles.. Betsey was on
James Miles marriage bond in Caswell Co    also see Starling Gunn , page 251
Caswell Hertige book ...  Rev war record tells were he was born  and date of
birth, also see Caswell Heritage book .. He states that he was born in
Brunswick Co Va, 9 May 1764.. and also that his father is Thomas Gunn.
                  
Mary HOOPER
Birth:
17 Apr 1768
Nottoway, Va
Death:
31 Mar 1843
Caswell, North Carolina
Burial:
Caswell, North Carolina
Notes:
                   Mary Hooper is on her tombstone at meth Church cemetery in Yanceyville NC..
Her tombstone says died in 1843 age 74 yrs 10 mo 16 da..  She is the daughter
of Zachariah Hooper and Susannah Walker..   LDS IGI has her name as Mary
Elizabeth Hooper born in Nottoway Co Va.. She has been sealed to Starling twice
1 Aug 1978 PV  and 23 Oct 1990 LG    Note;; also on IGI as born in Brunswick
Co Va...  On 30 March 1786 Thomas Walker Sr made a deed of gift ,"to my loving
granddaughter ", Mary Gunn , wife of Starling Gunn of Amelia Co, Va..
(Unrecord deeds, Amelia Co Va, 1750-1802, page 72.. see notes of Thomas Walker
Sr Also..
                  
Children
Marriage
1
Birth:
24 Aug 1786
Caswell, North Carolina
Death:
11 Mar 1873
Caswell, North Carolina
Marr:
3 Feb 1807
Caswell, North Carolina 
Notes:
                   Elizabeth (Betsey) Gunn is the daughter of Starling Gunn and Mary Hooper..
                  
2
Birth:
15 Apr 1788
Caswell, North Carolina
Death:
23 Dec 1878
Caswell, North Carolina
Marr:
30 Oct 1810
Caswell, North Carolina 
Notes:
                   Richard B Gunn Married Susannah Foster.. information on this family was from
Misc book 1, Page 190 and 191 Register of deeds office Yanceyville , Caswell Co
NC.. Marriage of Richard B Gunn and wife Susannah was from marriage bond in
Caswell Co NC.. Misc book says they were married 31 Oct 1810 in Caswell Co..
Caswell Heritage book page 150 .. Children marriages were from marriage bond
in Caswell Co NC... Griffin Gunn and family moved to Rockingham Co NC.  in
the southern part..    James Monroe Gunn also moved to Rockingham Co, Guntown..
                  
3
Birth:
20 Aug 1789
Caswell, North Carolina
Death:
16 Nov 1868
Randolph, Mo
Marr:
22 Jan 1811
Caswell, North Carolina 
Notes:
                   Thomas Gunn married Annie Montgomery and the information of this family was
from .. Thomas Gunn 111 his forebears and decendants by Gwen Shoemaker of
Eldon , Mo..   also Bible record in possession of Mattie Bell Tamm .  marriage
bond of Caswell Co NC..   Frances A Henderson wife of Willaim Allen Gunn was
born 21 May 1810 and died 8 April 1913  and buried in Fairview Cem Harden , Mo
they married 19 Nov 1857.. Susannah O Ellington was born 23 Nov 1828 and died
1907 she was the daughter of Samuel and Margaret Ellington..   Cornelia Kitchen
was born 19 May 1826 and died June 1896    Thomas Kendall Ball was born 1822
and died 1880 and he is buried in the Gunn Cem...    Thomas Gunn lived in
Randolph and Chariton Co Mo ... Martha Matlock is the daughter of James and
and Martha (Patsey) Gunn Matlock...
                  
4
Birth:
6 May 1791
Caswell, North Carolina
Death:
25 Sep 1873
Marr:
13 Jan 1810
Caswell, North Carolina 
Notes:
                   Martha (Patsey) Gunn married James Matlock 13 Jan 1810 in Caswell Co NC..
Her name appears as Patsey on marriage bond in Caswell Co..
                  
5
Daniel GUNN
Birth:
19 Feb 1793
Caswell, North Carolina
Death:
 
Marr:
 
6
Birth:
5 Dec 1794
Caswell, North Carolina
Death:
Marr:
1 Nov 1819
Caswell, North Carolina 
Notes:
                   Susannah Gunn married James Harris 1 Nov  1819 in Caswell Co NC and sealed
23 September 1971... They went to Missouri
                  
7
Birth:
18 Apr 1797
Caswell, North Carolina
Death:
13 Nov 1834
Pike, Mo
Marr:
22 Nov 1819
Caswell, North Carolina 
Notes:
                   Asa Gunn married Nancy Harrelson 22 Nov 1819 in Caswell Co NC.. sealed 8 Feb
1977 SL . They went to Missouri and settled in Pike Co.. information on this
family was from Dar Library states a letter from William Gunn  writtemn in 1904
from Lousiana , Mo states his parents were Asa Gunn .. also states he has a
brother John W Gunn and a sister Mary Ann Kinney. also states there are three
alive out of eight children of Asa Gunn in 1904..
Asa Gunn Will is in Pike Co Mo , Probate record #2 1834 - 1840... Will dated
2 August 1834 and Will filed 13 Nov 1834 in Pike Co Mo..   Also information
by correspondence of Mrs Bremen (June ) Hancock, route 2 ,Box 115 <
Madisonville, Ky 42431..   Death of Asa was between August and 13 Nov 1834..
Note: The letter from William A Gunn written in 1904 from Lousinna , Mo to
cousin in Allison, NC, in letter he states his sister Mary Ann lives in Nevada,
Mo and brother John lives in St Louis , Mo..     There was a William Shannon
appointed guardian for Mary Ann Gunn  and same for William , Marth, Hulda, -
minor children- 8 Feb 1839 pike Co Mo. probate record 2 1834 to 1840...
They came to pike Co Mo by 1832 - When deed book show entry on 28 Feb 1832 to
Asa Gunn from Henry Crow, the same land was sold 1 July 1841 by Pike Co Sheriff
for Asa Gunn deceased to John H Henderson..
                  
8
Birth:
26 Jun 1799
Caswell, North Carolina
Death:
Notes:
                   Mary (Polly) Gunn married Nicholas M Ellis..  They went to Christain Co Ky..
The ordinance also was done again Bapt  11 Feb 1995- End 13 Sept 1995 and
sealed to parents 24 Oct 1995 Arizo..
                  
9
Starling h GUNN
Birth:
4 Feb 1802
Caswell, North Carolina
Death:
18 Nov 1830
Caswell, North Carolina
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   Starling Gunn died Young
                  
10
Birth:
24 Feb 1804
Caswell, North Carolina
Death:
13 Nov 1835
Caswell, North Carolina
Marr:
27 Dec 1825
Caswell, North Carolina 
Notes:
                   Barbara Gunn married Samuel Hinton 27 Dec 1825 in Caswell Co an sealed 30
September 1981 in AZ... Barbara is also known as Barbary on the Will of
Starling Gunn he father..
                  
11
Birth:
4 Jul 1805
Caswell, North Carolina
Death:
7 Nov 1868
Christain, Ky
Marr:
5 Jul 1827
Caswell, North Carolina 
Notes:
                   John G Gunn married Susan D Richardson Steven .. They went of Ky in Christain
Co.. information was from book, Thomas Gunn 111 by Gwen Shoemaker in Gunn
library in Yanceyville, NC.. after John died Susan went to Miss to live with
Margaret (Maggie)..
                  
12
Birth:
13 May 1807
Caswell, North Carolina
Death:
Jul 1884
Notes:
                   Allen M Gunn married Minerva Ann Henderson 7 oct 1829 first time and Fannie
Hundley second time .  Minerva and Allen sealed 14 April 1981 LA
1860 census of Caswell Co NC  household 782-793    also from Starling Gunn
bible in Misc book 1, page 301 register of deeds office in Yanceyville, NC
book, Thomas Gunn 111 and his descendants , in Gunn library in Yanceyville..
marriage bond in Caswell Co NC,.   Allen Gunn to Minerva Ann Henderson 7 Oct
1829- source also Vol 2, Abstracts of vital records from Raleigh NC.
Newspaper 1829- page 274... Allen Gunn left a Will in book A, page 410 ,
he mention his wife Fanny A Gunn and son Elijah Gunn.   He also mention
George Gunn, not my son. I never knew his mother, his mother name was
Barbary- But I treated him as a our own son. Wrote 15 March 1880 and
probated 9 Oct 1884 in Caswell Co NC..
                  
13
Birth:
16 Dec 1811
Caswell, North Carolina
Death:
Marr:
7 May 1835
Caswell, North Carolina 
Notes:
                   James D Gunn married Frances A Henderson 7 May 1835 in Caswell Co Nc.
information on this family was from , A Gunn Genealogy by Drewy Wayne Gunn
1959-1963  page 163  in Gunn library in Yanceyville NC.. Willie Pinnix md
his cousin , Fannie New... William New and Lucy had 1 child Fannie New and
she married Willie Pinnix..   Children of Joseph Pinnix ,  Bettie Fanny
Pinnix married Olander Wimple of Danville Va Ida Pinnix married Thomas Cobb
Lillie Pinnix married Curry Howard King ..     also 1850 and 1860 census of
Caswell Co NC.. Marriage bond of Caswell Co.  Will of Starling Gunn dted 15 May
1849 names James D Gunn , Clerk of court office Yanceyville NC..

James Gunn was age 38 in 1850 census of Caswell Co NC
James Gunn married first time to Elizabeth Yancey 17 May 1831 in Caswell Co
NC..   Joseph C  (Crocker) Pinnix was born 2 September 1826 in Caswell Co
and died 12 April 1908 in Caswell Co NC.. Mary Elizabeth Gunn Pinnix , who is
the daughter of James Gunn and Frances A Henderson was born 2 May 1834 in
Caswell Co, died 12 Oct 1903 in Caswell Co NC.. both are buried at the
Methoist Church in Yanceyville where they have a double tombstone...   Joseph
Pinnix is the son of Joseph Pinnix Sr and Betsy Kerr. who were married 22 Jan
1816 in Caswell Co...
                  
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Starling Gunn - Mary Hooper

Starling Gunn was born at Brunswick, Va 9 May 1764. His parents were Thomas Gunn and Susannah Burnett.

He married Mary Hooper 5 Oct 1785 at Nottoway, Va . Mary Hooper was born at Nottoway, Va 17 Apr 1768 daughter of Zachariah Hooper and Susannah Walker .

They were the parents of 13 children:
Elizabeth B Gunn born 24 Aug 1786.
Richard B Gunn born 15 Apr 1788.
Thomas Gunn born 20 Aug 1789.
Martha (Patsey) Hooper Gunn born 6 May 1791.
Daniel Gunn born 19 Feb 1793.
Susannah Gunn born 5 Dec 1794.
Asa Gunn born 18 Apr 1797.
Mary (polly) Gunn born 26 Jun 1799.
Starling h Gunn born 4 Feb 1802.
Barbara Gunn born 24 Feb 1804.
John G Gunn born 4 Jul 1805.
Allen M Gunn born 13 May 1807.
James D Gunn born 16 Dec 1811.

Starling Gunn died 13 Aug 1852 at Caswell, North Carolina .

Mary Hooper died 31 Mar 1843 at Caswell, North Carolina .