Hunsdon Fairfax CARY^[1]

1842 - 1924  (82 years)

• Name	Hunsdon Fairfax CARY
  Birth	3 Mar 1842	Mississippi   [1]
  Gender	Male
  resided	18 Sep 1850	Shelby Co, TN   [2]
  	By September 1850, Hunsdon and his sister Susan were residing with their Aunt Mary Jane Cary Small, their father having died about 1843 and their mother, apparently, now also deceased.
  CWSV	1862  [3]
  	Hunsdon served in the Confederate Army as a member of the 3rd Mississippi Infantry. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862.
  resided	Jun 1880	Shelby Co, TN   [4]
  	It is of interest to note that in 1880 Hunsdon and his family and his sister Susan Cary Abercrombie and her family lived adjacent to their maternal aunt Mary Cary Small with whom they had resided following the death of their parents.
  Occupation	Jun 1880	Shelby Co, TN   [4]
  	Hunsdon was making his living as an attorney in Shelby County, Tennessee in June 1880.
  Death	2 Oct 1924	Memphis, Shelby Co, TN   [1]
  	Hunsdon died at 2:30 am at his home, 680 S. Barksdale Street, of endocarditis [inflammation of the endocardium and heart valves]. He was 80 years old at the time of his death.
  Burial	3 Oct 1924	Memphis, Shelby Co, TN   [1]
  	His body was interred at Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee on 3 October 1924.
  Person ID	I5786	mason
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

  Father	Miles CARY,   b. 1814   d. 1843, Mississippi (Age 29 years)
  Mother	Susan C. WHEATLEY,   b. of Memphis, Shelby Co, TN d. Before Sep 1850
  Marriage	1839  [5]
  Family ID	F5384	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ellen Preston RHEA,   b. 1847, Tennessee d. 1 Aug 1933, Memphis, Shelby Co, TN (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	1866  [5]
  Children	1. Miles Fairfax CARY,   b. Dec 1867, Tennessee d. 13 Jan 1917, Memphis, Shelby Co, TN (Age 49 years)   2. Rhea Preston CARY,   b. Jun 1870, Tennessee   3. Elinor Marion CARY,   b. 21 Dec 1884, Tennessee d. 10 May 1951, Memphis, Shelby Co, TN (Age 66 years)   4. Fairfax CARY,   b. 30 Sep 1889, Tennessee d. Jan 1974 (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F5932	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

• Photos

  1920 US Census / Cary, Hunsdon Memphis, Tennessee

  
  

• Sources

  [S1218] Hunsdon Cary, Tennessee death certificate. no. 2857 (1924). [S957] 1850 US Census / Small, H. D. . [S1174] Fairfax Harrison, Harrison, The Virginia Cary's: An Essay in Genealogy, ((New York: privately printed, DeVinne Press, 1919)), p. 123. [S1190] 1880 US Census / Cary, Hunsdon. [S953] Wilson Miles Cary, compiler, Cary, "Ancestral Lineage of Hunsdon Cary of Richmond, VA", Accession No. 27382.