father: Fred Regenold
mother: Kate Porter
Contributor: History Hunter (47179832) • [email protected]∼Widowed at time of death

Married: Edward Hall 'Ed' McCuistion on 7 Mar 1894 in Lamar County.

Father: Frederick Altmeyer Regenold
Mother: Katherine Voorhies Porter

Children:
Dr. Walter R. McCuistion (1896-1975)
Aletha McCuistion (1907-1959)
Dr. H.M. McCuistion
Erin M. McCuistion Floyd (1898-1950)
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(This is mostly about Edward Hall McCuistion, but it adds to the history of the McCuistion family)

From LOOSE LEAVES OF THE HISTORY OF LAMAR COUNTY by Ed. H. McCuistion

THE PARIS NEWS, 26 Jul 1946...

Edward Hall 'Ed' McCuistion was born southeast of Paris, on September 3, 1867, the son of Harrison Montgomery McCuistion and Mary Ann Abels, members of pioneer Lamar County families.
He married Miss Eva Regenold of Mount Pleasant, Tennessee.

They had the following children, Dr. Walter R. McCuistion, Aletha McCuistion, Dr. H.M. McCuistion and Erin M. McCuistion Floyd.

He was the brother of Dr. L.P. 'Pate' McCuistion, Dr. William Walter McCuistion, Myrtle McCuistion and Mrs. Marjorie McCuistion Moore Galbreath.

He died in Paris on July 26, 1946, and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery beside his his wife.

He said of himself that he was 'lawyer by profession, merchant by occupation, and banker by accident,' but he was also a civic leader of the first rank, a good Samaritan always and a Bible teacher of unquestioned ability.

Mr. McCuistion was mayor of Paris from 1908 to 1918, the last two years by request of the citizens who realized the need for his leadership in rebuilding Paris after the disastrous 1916 fire. He had already gained wide recognition for the city through the establishment of the Paris Municipal abattoir in 1909, said to be the first city-operated institution of its kind in the country.

He organized the Liberty National Bank and was its president 17 years, retiring simultaneously from this position and that of city treasurer, Dec 31 1941.

Until Dec 30 1945, he continued to write for THE PARIS NEWS the weekly Bible talks, published continuously since 1922, considered one of the most widely-read features the paper ever used. Two years earlier that the first Bible talks were printed, however, he had begun to write for the News, a series, 'Loose Leaves of Lamar County History,' compiled from various sources, including his personal acquaintance with many of the pioneer families of this section.

Mr. McCuistion and his wife, before Paris had any organized social welfare work, took into their own home numerous orphan boys, whom they helped to rear to creditable citizenship.

His work as a member of the First Methodist Church included many offices besides that of Bible class teacher. He was a member of the Masonic order, including the Knights Templar.

As a youth, he attended the old Paris Military Academy here, Southern Normal School and Business College in Bowling Green, KY, and the University of Texas.

He returned after his schooling to Pattonville vicinity, near the homestead where his grandfather had settled in 1840. His father, a descendant of the Scottish clan McDonald, had married Miss Mary Ann Abels, daughter of another early-day settler of the county, and lived many years at the old homeplace, nine miles southeast of Paris. Here, Ed McCuistion practiced law, operated a mercantile business and a country bank, and expanded his farming operations. The latter afterward developed into the McCuistion Brothers Jersey Farm, pioneer in raising purebred dairy animals. Then in 1903, under the late B.B. Sturgeon, he became assistant county attorney, and subsequently acquired an interest in a drug store in Paris.

In 1905, he was elected alderman for Third Ward, succeeding the late John T. Webster who had resigned, and the following year, was elected mayor. During his administrations he led not only in the establishment of the municipal abbatoir, but in conversion of the volunteer fire department into a city-paid unit, and in the extension of water and sewer service and street improvements.

He had announced he would not be a candidate for re-election in 1916, when the fire swept the city from one end to the other, but was prevailed upon to accept the nomination again without opposition. At the end of that term, with Paris' rehabilitation effected, he turned his attention to personal business and WORLD WAR I civilian activities.

He later served a term as president of the Chamber of Commerce, and in 1925, was called upon to aid in re-organization of the old City National Bank as the Liberty National Bank and served as its president from that time until his resignation Jan 1, 1942. The ill health which necessitated his retirement at that time had confined him to his home since then, until his condition grew worse and he was taken to the Sanitarium of Paris some time ago.