Robert Runyon (1881-1968), a native of Catlettsburg, KY, was a noted photographer and botanist. In 1955 and living in Brownsville, TX, he collaborated on his family's genealogy with his cousin, Amos Runyon. The fruit of that collaboration, *Runyon Genealogy* became the first comprehensive examination of the Runyon family's descent from the immigrant Vincent Rongnion of Poitiers, France, and his wife, Anne Boutcher of England. Runyon in 1962 wrote *Supplement to Runyon Genealogy* adding additional facts. He also wrote *Genealogy of the Descendants of Anthony Lawson of Northumberland, England* in 1952 to chronicle the genealogy of his maternal great-great-grandfather who emigrated in 1817.