HUNNICUTT, James C. (1859-1937)

HUNNICUTT

Posted By: Laura Gardner (email)
Date: 6/21/2007 at 15:09:35

The Tama News-Herald for Thursday, September 2, 1937

CLIFF HUNNICUTT AND WIFE KILLED IN INDIANA SATURDAY
James Clifford Hunnicutt
Brother of Mrs. Mary Schaeffer of Tama

Mrs. Mary Schaeffer of Tama received a message Monday morning from her brother, Robert W. Hunnicutt of Cedar Rapids, that Clifford Hunnicutt and his wife were killed in an automobile accident Sunday afternoon. Their home was at 808 S. 14th Street, New Castle, Ind.

Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Anamosa, Iowa, a former home of the Hunnicutts. They were laid to rest beside the graves of two of their sons, Charles, who died in 1907, and Clifford Sinclair, who was killed in a motor accident in 1932.

Mrs. Hunnicutt was killed instantly, and Mr. Hunnicutt lived only a few minutes after the accident. According to reports from New Castle where the accident occurred, the Hunnicutt car was turning off the highway into a city park when it was struck by another automobile.

One person in the other car was killed, one was seriously injured, and the driver was unhurt.

Four cousins of Mr. Hunnicutt atended the funeral in Anamosa. They were Horace, Earl, Benton and Frank Hunnicutt, all of Toledo.

Clifford Hunnicutt and his wife, Margaret Davidson, were both well known in Tama, where their early life was spent.

Obituary

James Clifford Hunnicutt, the son of James Sinclair and Mary Gilmore Hunnicutt, was born November 30, 1859, at Toledo, Iowa, and passed away August 29, 1937, while a resident of New Castle, Ind., at the age of 77 years, 8 months and 29 days.

In 1862 he moved with his parents to a farm in Perry township, located 12 miles northeast of Toledo, where he resided for five years. Locating in Tama in the spring of 1867 he remained here two years before returning to the farm near Toledo.

After three additional years on the farm, he again came to Tama, remaining here until his marriage in the fall of 1882 to Margaret Davidson, whose home was located north of Toledo.

After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Hunnicutt moved to Nebraska, residing there for about eight years. After another twelve years spent in Tama, they moved to Anamosa where Mr. Hunnicutt worked at the state reformatory for a time.

By trade he was a mason, and when his sons became contractors he went with them on various jobs in Indiana, Wisconsin and Ohio. For the past six years they have been residing in New Castle, where two years ago they bought a home.

Their last visit in Tama was almost two years ago. Both attended the Methodist church, and Mr. Hunnicutt was a member of the I.O.O.F. and Woodman lodges.

Many Survive

They are survived by two sons, Archie and Ralph of New Castle; three daughters, Mrs. Eva Anderson of Brush, Colo., Miss Blanche Hunnicutt and Mrs. Ogal Ellis of Chicago; eight grandchildren; one great grandchild.

Mr. Hunnicutt is also survived by one sister, Mrs. Mary Shaeffer of Tama; one brother, Robert W. Hunnicutt of 210 20th street, Cedar Rapids; and many more distant relatives.

Preceding him in death, besides his two sons, were his father, who died Sept. 23, 1923; his mother, whose death occurred in 1908; one sister, Cynthia, who died in 1919; two brothers, John, who passed away January 28, 1934, and Ulysses, who drowned at Roseburg, Ore., May 27 1935.