CULLIE HUNTER HEDGE 

The following bio was taken from page 232 of the book entitled “Rusk County History” compiled and edited and used with permission of the Rusk County Historical Commission. 

Transcribed by Shirley Koym 

Submitted by Gloria Briley Mayfield, Cemeteries of Texas 

Cullie Hunter Hedge was born in Humphreys County, Tennessee September 6, 1881, the son of Samuel Washington and Bell Thomason Hedge, who brought their family to Texas in 1888. 

The Hedges were living in Rusk County when Cullie Hunter married Mary E. Bennett in 1899.  Mary E. was born in Rusk County, February 28, 1882.  They soon became large landowners in Oak Hill Community.  They played a major role in the development of the community, giving land for the First Methodist Church and Cemetery. 

By this union of Hedge-Bennett, eight children were born.  William Prentis, born December 30, 1902, married Carrie Mae Carruthers.  Tullie Hugh, born June 9, 1901, married Imajean Finley.  Raymond Harvey, born October 30, 1904, married Virginia Mims.  Garland Hunter, born September 5, 1906, married Elsie Mae Strong.  Ellen Cleo, born July 8, 1908, married Gipson-Carpenter-Sammons.  Myrtle Pauline, born March 25, 1910, married Rogers Blanton Hale.  Gertrude Vero, born May 24, 1912, married R. J. Gary.  Betty May, born November 12, 1916, married Earl Gibbons, and second, Melvin Wilson.  Mary Ellen died August 21, 1921.  Cullie Hunter took for his second wife, Lonie Warren, who was born May 21, 1891 and died June 4, 1979.  To this union were born two children.  Katherine Beall, who was born May 24, 1923, married Robert Sneed; and Cullie H., who was born October 17, 1931, married Ann Wyatt. 

From about 1919 until the school started busing children, Cullie furnished and operated a school bus to transport children back and forth to the Oak Hill School. 

The Hedge family burial plot is in the New Prospect Cemetery. 

Submitted by Myrtle Hedge Hale