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| Text: Name Birth Date Ethnicity Birth Place County State Hudson Garlan d Brunson 23 Mar 1877 Whit e Brevard Florida |
| Christening: 1892 Clarksville, 1st Presbyterian Church 3 4 |
| Text: BRUNSON, Hudson Garland 1892 (401) |
| Christening (Adult): |
| Census: 1930 Cocoa, Brevard County, Florida 5 6 |
Text: Highland Street, household [124?]/235/242
Brunson, Hudson G. head owns home [$?], [not a farm] male, white, age 53, married at 31, c an read and write. Born Tenn., father born Tenn., mother born Tenn. [81] speaks English A ccountant, City of Cocoa. [6693] [W] employed all year [not a veteran]
Agnes C. wife female, white, age 43, married at 21, can read and write. B orn Georgia, father born Georgia, mother born Georgia. [78] speaks English no occupation [ housewife crossed out]
Evelyn daughter female, white, age 13, single, attends school, can read an d write. Born Florida, father born Tenn., mother born Georgia. [74] speaks English, no occ upation
Jane daughter female, white, age 11, single, attends school, can read an d write. Born Florida, father born Tenn., mother born Georgia. [79] speaks English, no occ upation
Agnes daughter female, white, age 7, single, attends school, can read an d write. Born Florida, father born Tenn., mother born Georgia. [79] no occupation [thi s last was an error, the family did not have a third daughter] 5 1 |
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BIOGRAPHY: From Ken Chatlos:
Hudson Garland Brunson, my grandfather, was the last-born of the children; we grandchildre n knew him as H.G., and his friends called him "Garland." At this point the family was living in Clarkesville, Tennessee.
He had to work in the fields for his spending money; years later he used to brag to his daug hters that he had made a penny for each hundred tobacco bugs he had killed. Similarly, he repeatedly told these daughters that he had graduated salutatorian of his high school class; it took them much too long to take stock of that achievement and to ask him how many students had been in his class. He savored the much delayed ending to this joke, for now he could finally tell them that he had had only two classmates. My mother [Evelyn], one of these daughters, fondly remembers her father's playfulness and jokes. She knew all along, however, that he was brighter than he liked to let on; this was especially true in the field of mathematics. He was not, however, afflicted with either braggadocio or hubris.
When H.G. reached twenty-one -- the year was 1895 -- he decided to work his way south. One u nlikely part of the story has it that both of his parents had died shortly before he left home; but that cannot be true, for Hallie lived until 1898, and Isaac lasted another five years. The likely part of this story also includes something about male generosity: H.G. and his brother, so it is said, gave their inheritance to their sisters, for they understood that it was easier for men than for women to make their way in southern society. Perhaps the boys, like the Prodigal Son, had asked their father for their inheritance early. But that too seems unlikely, for when the boys got the money, they gave it away, and neither of them had a reputation as a wastrel. Still, I believe what I have been told about their generosity, for it fits well with the H.G. I knew as a boy; I suspect, however, that what really happened was that when he recieved his inheritance when his father died, he passed it on to his sisters. Be that as it may, grandfather wandered far from home to seek his fortune. He stopped, at least temporarily, in Fort Valley, Georgia, where during the summers he picked peaches, packed fruit, and made orange crates. In the winters he migrated to Florida to work the orange groves. He would have no more of his father's tobacco bugs. It was during one of those Georgia summers that he met Agnes Carter.
BIOGRAPHY: H.G. was forty years old when the Great War broke out, and forty-three when the Un ited States actually declared war on Germany. If age wasn't enough to keep him out of the military, then health was. During those days he made a trip to Mayo's Clinic where they discovered a tumor on his intestine. They cut a piece out of his innards, gave him a salt water transfusion, and sent him home with the good news that he might last a year.
Years later he sought a second treatment at Mayo's, this time for skin problems. They remove d some glands from under his arms and recommended massive doses of Vitamin B-12. I'm not sure whether his skin ever improved, but the reports are that his appearance did. Even before he returned home, so the story goes, he had begun to grow new black hair to cover his thinly covered pate. Apparently Mayo's contributed unwittingly to my grandpa's good looks and long life.
BIOGRAPHY: Cocoa, a small town just north of Rockledge, had its own zoo on Highland Street . Some folks say that visitors to the zoo could view exotic South American armadillos in their cages. Those cages must not have been too secure, for it is also said that some of those armadillos escaped to become a new, wild Florida animal. I have recently heard that some of the offspring of these escapees -- probably their great grandchildren -- have traveled as far north as south Missouri; they were undoubtedly making double-sure that no Florida zoo keeper would recapture them and take them back to Cocoa for display. These small animals might feel more at ease if they knew that their progenitor's prison no longer existed. I am not sure when the Highland Street Zoo went out of business; I doubt, that its property sale was related to the legendary "great escape." However all this may be, my grandparents took advantage of the situation. The Brunsons became permanent residents on Highland Street when they bought their own home, one that had been built on zoo property. Moreover, they planted plenty of shade and fruit trees so that no one would have to suffer from over-ezposure to the sun. They had finally decided to settle down, far enough from Georgia peaches and even further from Tennessee tobacco. A half-century later their grandson, Kenneth Brunson -- that's me -- would watch for the big apartment building on the southwest corner of the Old Dixie Highway in Cocoa. I expected my father to make the familiar left turn, knowing that it would be no more than a minute before we would drive under the moss-covered oak trees which provided a canopy for Highland Street, the royal road which ran right in front of the old house my grandparents had bought so many years ago. Soon I would watch the squirrels chase one another up the trees, I would help my grandpa bury the garbage, and I would eat fresh grapefruit and oranges which I helped him pick off his trees.
BIOGRAPHY: [From my own memory]
H.G. was the town clerk for Cocoa, FL for many years (from my mother's childhood until my ow n early memories of him). He was also a gardner, with flowers and vegetables as well as the citrus trees. My mother said he was good at grafting citrus, and his fruit had a wonderful flavor though many more seeds than the new varieties.
He was a fairly tall, slender man. By the time I knew him, his hair was gone. Mom said he h ad white hair from an early age (which was inherited by Evelyn and most of her children).
Marriage:
The Rev. W.C. Carter officiated and the witness was Mrs. W.C. Carter (the parents of the brid
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- Title: USGenweb
- Note: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/fl/brevard/military/1917drf1.txt
- Title: 19th Century Tennessee Church Records
Author: Byron & Barbara Sistler
Publication: Nashville, Tennessee 1929
Page: Vol. II, Page 30
- Note: (401) Clarksville. 1st & 2nd Presbyterian Churches 1822-1972
- Title: Census
- Note: Genealogy.com
Florida, BREVARD, Roll 307, Book 2, Page 8
- Title: Information from Relative/Descendant
From the Bible of Agnes Claudia Carter Brunson.
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