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Arthur, married Ida Walker
Lorene, married Joe Gann
Holbert, married Hilda Dyess
Marie, married ---Pratt
Ouida, married Notie Dyess
Howard, married Bobbie Richey
Mary Josephine Puckett, married W. P.
Hughes.
Their children were Rex and Sallie Hughes.
J. A. (Asa) Puckett married E. E. (Lector)
Murray.
Their children were: Sarah Theresa (S. T.),
married Grover Rhodes and A. K. (Kay),
married Maude Carson
Warren, married Rose Stanberry
Herman, married Berta Connell
Otis, married Era Shaw
Doctor J. M. Puckett married Martha (Mattie)
Haines Warbington, a granddaughter of Martin
Varner, the first white settler of Wood County. Her
first husband, Elamander Warbington, born 2
November 1860 in Gwinnett County, Georgia died 1
October 1889. This couple had one child, Christian E.
(Buddy) Warbington.
Doctor J. M. and Mattie Puckett were the parents
of:
Julius, married Sue Giddins
Martha Golda, married Robert Yarrington
Alto, married Maurice Plumb
Alamo, married Luther Lawrence
Lucille
Warren C. (Bud) Puckett was a prosperous farmer
known as the man "who farmed by the moon." The W.
C. Pucketts reared all their children on their farm
between Hainesville and Mount Pisgah. Warren C. and
Maggie Laminack Puckett were buried in the Mount
Pisgah Cemetery.
J. A. (Asa) Puckett farmed a great part of his life,
then he became superintendent of the County Farm.
At one time he owned and operated a general merchan-
dise store at Hainesville. Later he moved to Quitman
and bought the Hart Hotel which he operated until his
death.
Doctor James M. Puckett farmed in his younger
days and taught school in the winter. He served one
term as District Clerk, 1890-1892. After teaching
several years, he entered a Medical School in
Louisville, Kentucky, where he received his degree in
medicine.
Doctor Puckett practiced medicine in Hainesville
and the surrounding area until his retirement. After
retiring he moved to Mineola where he died in 1931.
Doctor J. M. and Martha E. Haines Puckett were
buried in the Concord Cemetery.
Source: Martha G. Puckett Yarrington; Berta ConnellPuckett
Submitted by: Ona Wood
CADWELL WALTON RAINES, born 18
September 1839 in Upson County, Georgia, settled in
Wood County in 1880. He was the first child of Thomas
A. and Aletha McClendon Raines. He made his first
trip to Texas in 1853 with his parents. In 1868, after
completing his junior year at Princeton University, he
rejoined his family at Rockwall, Texas where he
remained for two years before moving to Paris, Texas in
1860.
At this time, Cadwell Raines was admitted on trial
as a preacher in the Clarksville district of the East Tex-
as Conference of the Methodist Church. While doing
ministerial work in Arkansas, he met Miss Mary
Bowden whom he married 17 March 1871.
On 6 March 1862, Cadwell enlisted as a private in
the Confederate Army at Witts Mill, Dallas County,
serving under Captain Gano. He was captured 3 April
1863 at Snow Hill, Tennessee and paroled 30 April 1863
at Fort McHenry, Maryland. After the war ended he
taught school for a time in South Texas and later
moved to Arkansas where he was admitted to the bar.
In 1875, the Raines family returned to Texas and
he began the practice of law in Canton, Van Zandt
County. He was appointed county judge of Van Zandt
County and served from 1876 to 1878. During this time
he became acquainted with a rising young attorney in
Quitman, James Stephen Hogg. The two men, sharing
mutual interests, became good friends.
In late 1880, Raines moved his family to Mineola
into a boarding house also occupied by the Hogg
family, who were awaiting the completion of their new
home. In Mineola he began the publication of a
newspaper called The Mineola Hawkeye. W. M.
Warlick was a partner in this venture. The Hawkeye
was definitely pro-Hogg and did a great deal toward
swaying the County's opinion for Hogg's re-election as
district attorney.
Cadwell Raines taught at least one term in the
Concord Community at a one teacher school called
"The Concord Academy." He moved his family there
during this time. By 1884, he was living and teaching at
Quitman. He was elected county judge of Wood County
in 1886 and served two terms. He received $3.00 for
each criminal case tried and disposed of.129
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