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K-P Cemetery Peck Section 20 JOHN WALKER HANBY, JR. John Walker Hanby, Jr. was the sixth child of Emma Cannon Peck Hanby and John Walker Hanby. He was born in Rockwall County, Texas, on February 25, 1886. He never married. After the deaths of their parents he and his sister, Mary Gray (Gay) lived in the family home for almost twenty more years. In 1958 they had a small frame house built on a lot on east Rusk Street located between the Baptist Church and the home of their double-first cousin, Nora McChesney (Nona) Hanby. Uncle Jack had a car and Nona and Gay and the neighbor on the other side of Nona, Miss Pearl Myers liked to take a weekly trip to nearby Terrell to shop at a larger grocery store than was then available in Rockwall. Somehow Uncle Jack had decided that it cost 32 cents to take a trip to Terrell which was 16 miles away. So each week two of the ladies paid him 11 cents and one of them paid him a dime. According to the family story, there was never any question of whose turn it was to pay only a dime; such high finance was too serious to not keep accurate records. Also, Uncle Jack smoked. When he lighted his pipe on the small porch between his and Gay's house, he tossed the used kitchen match on the ground. Aunt Nona would come over and collect the used matches and take them to her house and wash and dry the stems. These stems were then taken to her kitchen stove pilot light, ignited, and carried carefully to her bedroom or sitting room to light the small heaters located there. John Walker Hanby, Jr. died on January 3, 1955.
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