Edward Dixon Junkin (1865-1939)

ANCESTRAL LINE: A1 Joseph Junkin I | B3 Joseph Junkin II | C7 George Junkin | D6 Ebenezer Dickey Junkin

Edward Dixon Junkin (1865-1939)

Edward Dixon Junkin (1865-1939)

Ruth Martindale Hastings (1872-1965)

Ruth Martindale Hastings (1872-1965)

E5 Edward Dixon Junkin, born: March 12, 1865 in Rockbridge County, Virginia, died August 18, 1939 in Austin, Texas; married December 25, 1899 Ruth Martindale Hastings, born November 2, 1872 in Mount Morris, New York, died July 29, 1965 in Austin, Texas.

Edward Dixon Junkin was educated at Hampden-Sidney College in Hampden-Sydney, Virginia (about 60 miles west of Richmond, Virginia). He was employed in Austin, Texas by R. G. Dun & County and later he was the office manager for the T. H. Williams County Dry Goods Store. He was active in the University Presbyterian Church in Austin where he was both a deacon and an elder. He was a charter member of the Austin Rotary Club and a member of the Texas Society of Sons of the American Revolution.

On Christmas day 1899 he married Ruth Martindale Hastings in Little Rock, Arkansas. Ruth was born on November 2, 1872 in Mount Morris, New York. She attended the University of Texas Library School in Austin, Texas. She taught elementary school in Little Rock, Arkansas. While in Little Rock she was the organist for the Little Rock Presbyterian Church. Later she started the University of Texas Architecture School Library in Austin. She was also very active in the University Presbyterian Church in Austin where she was the first president of the Women of the Church, University Presbyterian Church.

Children of Edward Dixon Junkin and Ruth Martindale Hastings:

F1 Frederick Hastings Junkin

F2 Edward Dixon Junkin, Jr., born January 9, 1903 in Austin, Texas, died August 25, 1991 in Bedford, Virginia: married December 20, 1944 Mary Ella Taft O'Sands in Reynosa, Mexico, born September 8, 1908 Madison County, died March 6, 1971 Austin, Texas.

F3 George Junkin, born April 11, 1905 in Austin, Texas, died June 4, 1998 in Ellicott City, Maryland; married June 24, 1942 Mary Louise Bucher in Dayton, Ohio, born March 24, 1907 in Dayton, Ohio, died August 9, 1988 Arlington, Virginia.

F4 Daniel Penick Junkin, born July 16, 1907 in Austin, Texas, died December 9, 1994 in Austin, Texas; married November 8, 1931 Louise Wallerin Fentress, Texas, born February 29, 1912 Fentress, Texas.

F5 Ruth Martindale Junkin, born April 16, 1910 in Austin, Texas, died November 9, 1991 Austin, Texas; married August 9, 1984 Warren D. Abbott, Jr. in Austin, Texas, born November 28, 1907 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, died November 10, 1994 in Austin, Texas.

The Joseph Junkin Family Tree is a collection of information gathered by Eric & Liz Davis, Mary Eleanor Bell, Alice Erma Bell, Margaret A. Killian, Laura Gayle Junkin, Winston Ray Norris, Joyce Ann Junkin, Barbara Ann Millner, and many others. The html version was initiated by Eric and Elizabeth Fisher-Davis in 1998 .

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