William Peyton Fullingim, known to friends as Bunch, was the son of Edward C. and Millie Elizabeth Fulbright, born in Red River County, May 1, 1875. His father came to Texas from Alabama and joined the Confederate Army and was a prisoner of the North for some time.William Peyton acquired his education in the public schools at Johnstown in northeast Texas and Mt. Vernon. He taught school six years. In 1900 he engaged in the mercantile business with his father-in-law, Sam C. Spikes, at Estacado, Texas. He remained at Estacado for fifteen years and engaged in both mercantile and stockfarming businesses.
Bunch married Eula Spikes, daughter of Sam C. and Katy (Fowler) Spikes, October 14, 1897. Eula died February 27, 1902. She was the mother of two daughters, Jewel and Dovie.
On May 5, 1903, Mr. Fullingim married Mrs. May Shipley Merchant, who by her first marriage had a son, Lafayette Merchant. To this second marriage two children were born, a daughter Fleta, a son, Peyton. Bunch Fullingim was a Democrat, Royal Arch Mason, and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Woodmen of the World. He was postmaster of Estacado for six years. He had a fine insurance business at Lorenzo, where he had moved from Estacado, when he passed away some years ago.
Mrs. Mary Fullingim is an outstanding member and worker in the Baptist church. She has a record of teaching in the Sunday schools of that church over a period of fifty years.
She is sought far and wide to make talks at churches, at the ending of schools and Old Settler Reunions. her words of encouragement, and of comfort, have brightened the lives of many, many people. She has lived a full, helpful, Christian life.
They built a lovely rock home in Lorenzo, where Mrs. Fullingim still lives. Mrs. Fullingim´s parents were from East Tennessee and came to Dallas. She recalls her grandfather was a fiddler and entertained during the Civil War.
Source: "Through the Years, A History of Crosby County, Texas" by Nellie Witt Spikes and Temple Ann Ellis ©1951; The Naylor Company, San Antonio, Texas
W. P. Fullingim Succumbed Last Friday at Lorenzo Home; Rites Saturday for Crosby Pioneer
LORENZO, March 10 - Funeral services for W. P. Fullingim, 69, pioneer school teacher, postmaster and merchant of Lubbock and Crosby counties were conducted here at the First Baptist church Saturday afternoon at 4 o´clock. Officiating at the last rites was the pastor, Rev. Henry West.Burial was in Lorenzo cemetery under the direction of Marr Funeral Home.
Mr. Fullingim died Friday morning at his Lorenzo home following an illness of two weeks.
Mr. Fullingim came to the Plains in 1897 from Red River county. He was among the first school teachers of Crosby county and at one time was postmaster of Estacado. He was in the general mercantile business at Estacado for several years.
The family moved to Lorenzo in 1924 and since that time Mr. Fullingim has been a cotton buyer insurance and real estate dealer.
He is a Master Mason and a deacon in the First Baptist Church. He had been in ill health the last year.
Survivors are his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Earl Bonine of Ralls, Mrs. Cecil Fitch of Abilene; one son, Rev. P. D. Fullingim, pastor of the First Baptist Church at Wheeler; one step-son, F. W. Merchant of Lubbock; one brother, H. E. Fullingim, rancher and farmer of Petersburg; one sister, Mrs. Mattie Murphy of Siloan Springs, Arkansas.
Pallbearers were announced as Cecil Fitch, Earl Bonine, Fred Wiese, Buck Stobaugh and Bunch and Austin Fullingim.
Mr. Fullingim was a charter member an president of the West Texas Old Settlers association during the year 1941.
Lubbock Avalanche Journal, March 15, 1945
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
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