Robert G. Kuykendall
Born May 15, 1870
Died Jan 17, 1906
From Find A Grave (via Ancestry.com) we get a bit of information.
Robert Gill Kuykendall was born in Matagorda County on May 15, 1870 to Wylie Martin Kuykendall and Susan E. Pierce Kuykendall. There is some confusion about his middle name. It is shown by McCrosky as Gill, one letter states that it is Gilbert, and his wife, Maggie, told my mother, Alice Hamlett Kuykendall, Austin, Texas, that it was Gilden, so she named her first son Robert Gilden Kuykendall after his grandfather. Gill is most likely correct, shortened from Gilliland Kuykendall. Wylie's uncle was Joseph Gilliland Kuykendall.
Gill, as he was called, married Margaret "Maggie" Moore in Matagorda County on August 21, 1890. They had three children born in the 1890s in Matagorda County around Buckeye or Ashby: Marion, Dorothy and Wylie Moore (b. March 3, 1899); and Isaac, born in Hays County. Gill and his father had moved to Hays County, Texas, in 1901 or 1902 and bought property there. There is little information about Gill's early life.
It had been said that Maggie was the housekeeper of the family and that Gill married her. If she was the housekeeper, she must have been a good one, for the Moores were prominent families of the Matagorda area. Eudora I. Moore's diary is the source of the details that are known of Gill's life. Eudora, a school teacher, was Maggie's aunt. In the fall of 1905, while on a return trip from Kyle, Gill fell from his horse into Onion Creek: he obviously developed pneumonia, because he took to his bed in October or November, and as his condition worsened, he drank more, would not eat, and died on the 19th of December, 1905, at the Kuykendall Ranch headquarters west of Buda.
Gill was a big man, well over six feet. Shanghai Pierce, his uncle, was six feet, five inches. The pictures of him at the Kuykendall Ranch Museum in Hays County show a man extremely well-dressed and riding fine looking horses, all branded with the famous 101 brand that the Kuykendalls controlled in Texas until the late 1940s. Gill's sense of humor was obvious, one of the pictures show the cow hands around a pen fill of cattle, and Gill himself standing on his head, with his ten gallon hat on. With Gill's death, the ranching helm was lost"
Marshall E. Kuykendall
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NOTE: The Find A Grave entry lists his death as December 15, 1905 - the headstone is clearly marked January 17, 1906, and the narrative says December, 19, 1905.