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Lee Handy Poindexter. Survived by daughter, Mary Kaylee Gunn; half-sister, Becky
Evans; half-brother, Ricky Poindexter; a very special aunt, Marie Handy. Visitation
Thursday, 2 p.m. until service time at 7 p.m., at Madison Funeral Home, with Bro. Ed
McClellan and Rev. Ray Newell officiating. Inurnment will follow at a later date.
Published in “The Tennesseen”
Joseph Melanethon Gunn
died Sunday night, December 15, 1918 at Johnston Willis Hospital where he was taken for
treatment last week. Captain Gunn was born at his father’s place, Berry Hill, in lower
Henrico County, on September 2, 1840. He was the son of William Frederick Gunn a
prosperous farmer and his wife Mary Ann Bullington Gunn. On his paternal side, he was
descended from John Gunn, who came from Scotland in Colonial days, settled in Henrico
and secured grants for land in and around the present site of the city of Richmond. On
him maternal side he was a descendant of Nicholas Bullington, who came from England
was living on James River in 1622 and escaped the Indian massacre of March 1623. While
in the twenty-first year of his age, Captin Gunn volunteered in the Confederate service and
joined the Henrico Guards which was merged into the Fifteenth Virginia Infantry, Corse’s
Brigade. Pickett’s Division Longstreet’s Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. He was made
a captain serving along with Captain later Major Charles Hammett Clarke. Captain
Charles U. Williams, Captain , later General, Alonzo L. Phillips, Captain Allen M. Lyon,
Captain George P. Haw and others. He participated in all the engagments of his command
from Bethel to appomattox. In May 1864 at Drewry’s Bluff, he was severely wounded by a
shell, but soon recovered and rejoined his company. He was the last of eight brothers who
served gallantly in the Confederate service in cavalry, artillery, infantry and engineer
corps. After his parole at Appomattox, he took up farming in Cumberland County, where
he met and married Miss Elizabeth Daniel Riddle. Some years ago he moved to Richmond
and was for many years in the United States postal service. While in that service last
summer, he was overcome with heat at Petersburg. He came home and was never able to
resume his labors. His eldest son, William Randolph Gunn, while a young man, died in
1907. He is survived by his widow, one son, Senator Julien Gunn, and one daughter, Mrs.
W. Kirk Mathews. The funeral will take place from his late residence 2520 Floyd Avenue
at 11 o’clock this morning. Rev. George W. McDaniel D.D. will officiate. The burial will
be in Hollywood Cemetery. The following will act as pallbearers; E. D. Foster, E.S.
Turpin, R. Welford Gunn, E. Leslie Spence, Jr., Homer Cooper and R McC. Bullington.
Joseph Norman "Joe" Gunn
77, passed from this life on Monday, July 21, 2008 at HRC Manor Care in West Des
Moines. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, August 5, at Iles Funeral
Homes - Westover Chapel in Des Moines, where the family will greet friends from 1 p.m.
until the service time on Tuesday. Burial will follow at Sunny Hill Cemetery in Grimes.Joe
was born on December 13, 1930 in Detroit, MI to Herman and Florence Doubet Gunn. He
moved to Iowa when he was a teenager and lived with his aunt and uncle, Nell and Horace
Baker, until he became an adult.Joe was a 1948 graduate of the former Beaconsfield High
School and later graduated from Iowa State University in Ames. Joe had also attended
Drake University in Des Moines, where he earned his CPCU (Chartered Property and
Casualty Underwriter"s) degree. From 1952 to 1954, Joe was a veteran of the Korean