Wood & Torbert Families - Hosea H. Runnels

Hosea H. Runnels

b. circa 1803, d. 1837

Hosea H. Runnels was born circa 1803.
Hosea H. Runnels appeared in the US federal census of 7 August 1820 in Lawrence County, Mississippi.
He married Lucy Jackson on 24 December 1823 in Lawrence County, Mississippi, with Samuel Stamps, JP, officiating.
Hosea H. Runnels became a widower at the circa 1827 death of his wife Lucy Jackson.
He married Elizabeth Wilson on 1 June 1830 in Hinds County, Mississippi, by license dated 31 May 1830.
Hosea H. Runnels and Elizabeth Wilson appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1830 in Hinds County, Mississippi.
Hosea H. Runnels died in 1837 in Mississippi.
Based on circumstantial evidence, it is an educated guess that Cecelia H. Runnels was a daughter of Hosea H. Runnels and Elizabeth Wilson.
In 1842, in Hinds County, Mississippi, Hiram G. Runnels, guardian for three of the minor heirs of Hosea Runnels, asks permission to sell a slave family held by the estate of the said Hosea. The petitioner represents "that it will be impossible to make a fair and equal distribution of said slaves among the four distributees . . . without selling the same and dividing the proceeds among them."
In 1843, in Hinds County, Mississippi, Hiram R. Runnels, one of the minor heirs of Hosea H. Runnels, asks that his uncle, Hiram G. Runnels, be appointed his guardian.