Solomon CUNNINGHAM
Birth:
5 Jul 1780
Hampshire co, Va, Usa
Death:
28 Sep 1821
Hardy co, Va, Usa
Marriage:
19 Apr 1806
Father:
Mother:
Notes:
Source: Descendants of John Seymour (http://www.joanrodenberger2000.com/seymour_john.html)
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About 1/2 mile north of the river bridge near the Hardy-Grant
County Line and just north of the old Welton home "Hickory Hill"
200 yards west of U.S. 220.
Born Died
Cunningham, Catherine 22 May 1786 10 Oct 1872
(Wife of Solomon Cunningham)
Cunningham, Garrett 1821 1903
Cunningham, Pheba S. 21 May 1817 19 Apr 1851
Cunningham, Solomon Jul 1780 28 Sep 1821
Cunningham, Solomon G. 14 Jun 1820 11 Aug 1883
Cunningham, Wm. H. 19 Feb 1809 20 Feb 1853
Green, Ann Jemima 21 Jul 1815 9 May 1855
(Wife of Chas. H. Green)
Welton, Felix B. 1816 1896
Welton, Francis Nelson 15 May 1855 9 Jul 1946
(Son of Felix & Sally Welton)
Welton, Infant 1865 1865
(Infant son of Felix B. & Jane Welton)
Welton, Jane Elizabeth 23 Dec 1818 26 Nov 1846
(Wife of Felix B. Welton)
Welton, Lucene Seldon 1844 1845
(Son of Felix B. & Jane Welton)
Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription
Project by Suzanne W. Whitson (suzanne.whitson@comcast.net)
May 22, 2005
Copyright - All rights reserved
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Hickory Hill (added 1985 - Building - #85001596)
US 220, Petersburg
Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer: Cunningham,Solomon
Architectural Style: Federal
Area of Significance: Architecture
Period of Significance: 1800-1824
Owner: Private
Historic Function: Agriculture/Subsistence, Domestic
Historic Sub-function: Agricultural Outbuildings, Single Dwelling
Current Function: Agriculture/Subsistence, Domestic
Current Sub-function: Agricultural Outbuildings, Single Dwelling
Catherine Wynkoop SEYMOUR
Birth:
22 May 1786
Moorefield, Hardy co, Va, Usa
Death:
10 Oct 1872
Father:
Mother:
Notes:
Source: Descendants of John Seymour (http://www.joanrodenberger2000.com/seymour_john.html)(gives date of death as 19 Apr 1806); another source, Paul Ancestors in Virginia (http://members.aol.com/seabarb1/paul/not05.htm#15), gives date of death at 10-10-1872.
Children
Marriage
1
William Harness CUNNINGHAM
Birth:
19 Feb 1809
Death:
20 Feb 1853
Marr:
2
Birth:
8 Dec 1810
Moorefield, Hardy co, Va, Usa
Death:
28 Mar 1860
Victoria, Victoria co, Tx, Usa
Notes:
"CUNNINGHAM, ABEL SEYMOUR." The Handbook of Texas Online. [Accessed Tue Jul 6 17:12:50 US/Central 2004 ].
CUNNINGHAM, ABEL SEYMOUR (1810-1860). Abel Seymour Cunningham, a Republic of Texas congressman and participant in the Texas Revolution and the Mexican War, was born on December 8, 1810, in Hardy County, Virginia. He moved to Texas in 1835 and settled in Victoria County. During the Texas Revolution he volunteered as a private in the army and served from April 1 to July 12, 1836, in a Captain Smith's company of cavalry. In the spring of 1842 he served in Capt. John T. Price's company under Col. Clark L. Owenqv in the expedition to crush the invasion of Texas by Rafael Vásquez. Cunningham represented Victoria County in the House of the Ninth Congress of the republic from December 2, 1844, to June 28, 1845, and was a member of the annexationqv convention that summer. He joined Col. Benjamin McCulloch's rangers in 1846, after the outbreak of the Mexican War. In the 1840s he was a Victoria alderman and joined the Victoria bar. He was kept on retainer by the board to represent the city in land cases before the Texas Supreme Court. Cunningham was married to Martha McGrew. He died on March 28, 1860, in Victoria.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Roy Grimes, ed., 300 Years in Victoria County (Victoria, Texas: Victoria Advocate, 1968; rpt., Austin: Nortex, 1985). Victor Marion Rose, History of Victoria (Laredo, 1883; rpt., Victoria, Texas: Book Mart, 1961). Texas House of Representatives, Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 (Austin: Book Exchange, 1941).
Craig H. Roell
The Handbook of Texas Online is a joint project of The General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin (http://www.lib.utexas.edu) and the Texas State Historical Association (http://www.tsha.utexas.edu).
Copyright ©, The Texas State Historical Association, 1997-2002 Last Updated: July 23, 2002
4
Birth:
21 Jul 1815
Hardy co, Va, Usa
Death:
9 May 1855
Notes:
SOURCE: Information from study by Mrs. K.G. Letcher. Also from "Genealogies of some Old Families" by Benjiman F. VanMeter, 1901. p. 167. Paul Ancestors in Virginia (http://members.aol.com/seabarb1/paul/not04.htm#8)
5
Pheba Scott CUNNINGHAM
Birth:
21 May 1817
Death:
19 Apr 1851
Marr:
6
Birth:
25 Dec 1818
Death:
26 Nov 1846
8
Garret VanMeter CUNNINGHAM
Birth:
21 Nov 1821
Death:
21 Feb 1902
Marr:
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Solomon Cunningham - Catherine Wynkoop Seymour
Solomon Cunningham
was born at Hampshire co, Va, Usa 5 Jul 1780.
His parents were William Cunningham and Jemima Harness.
He married Catherine Wynkoop Seymour 19 Apr 1806 . Catherine Wynkoop Seymour was born at Moorefield, Hardy co, Va, Usa 22 May 1786 daughter of Abel Seymour and Ann Van Meter .
They were the parents of 8
children:
William Harness Cunningham
born 19 Feb 1809.
Abel Seymour Cunningham
born 8 Dec 1810.
George Scott Cunningham
born 24 Sep 1813.
Ann Jemima Cunningham
born 21 Jul 1815.
Pheba Scott Cunningham
born 21 May 1817.
Jane Elizabeth Cunningham
born 25 Dec 1818.
Solomon Grundy Cunningham
born 14 Jun 1820.
Garret VanMeter Cunningham
born 21 Nov 1821.
Solomon Cunningham died 28 Sep 1821 at Hardy co, Va, Usa .
Catherine Wynkoop Seymour died 10 Oct 1872 .