Robert Dabney "Blind Bob" Hunter

ID Number: T01598

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Biographical Data

Basic Identification

Gender: male Ethnicity: Immigration: Attributed Race: black Free or Enslaved: unknown

Birth & Family

Birth Date: 1855/00/00 Birthplace: Mother: Father: 1st Spouse: 2nd Spouse:

Age Details

Age: 42 Age Group: adult (20-59)

Life Details

Occupation(s): Last Church: Jackson Street Methodist Church Military Service: Last Residence: Lynchburg, Virginia Last Address:

Death

Death Date: 1897/08/02 Death Note: none Place of Death: sister's home, 407 Jackson Street Cause of Death: not given

Burial & Undertaking

Burial Date: 1897/08/04 Funeral Home: Diuguid Indigent?: private interment

Gravesite and Grave Marker Data

Grave Marker or Marker Fragment: none Section: unknown Confirmation Source for Location: none Grave Marker Erector(s): unknown Confirmation Source for Interment: Diuguid records

Notes

"at one time a conspicuous figure in local Republican politics"

Obituary and Biographical Detials

“at one time a conspicuous figure in local Republican [progressive] politics” after the Civil War

“it was in a torch light procession celebrating a Republican victory that, by the discharge of a pistol, either in his own hands or the hands of some one else, he received the injury that resulted in his blindess”