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Robert Dabney “Blind Bob” Hunter

ID Number: T01598

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: male

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

Diuguid ID Number:

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”