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- Source: Book-HISTORY OF MERCER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA ITS PAST ANDPRESENT AND CONDENSED HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Chicago, Ill., Brown,Runk & Co., Publishers. http://persi.heritagequestonline.com
Page1182: Excerpt from paragraph of son Col. Silas Hunter: "Hisfather, James Hunter, was born in Philadelphia, Penn., December 5,1789, and had reached manhood ere the coming of the family to MercerCounty in the spring of 1812. He married February 23, 1815, to SarahDowlin, who died without issue April 5, 1817. he was again marriedJuly 27, 1820, to Isabella, daughter of Christopher and ElizabethNorth. She was born in Maryland in June 1793, and came to MercerCounty with her parents when a small child, her mother carrying her onhorseback across the Mountains from Westmoreland County, Penn.,whither they had removed from Maryland. They settled in what is nowGreene Township, on the farm where her nephew, Samuel North, resides.She grew to womanhood on that farm, and upon her marriage took up herabode on the old Hunter homestead, in West Salem Township, where thebalance of her life was passed. She had the following children bythis union: Alexander, deceased; Margaret, wife of James Christy, ofKinsman, Ohio; Harrison, of Jamestown; David A., of Emporia, Kas.;James, deceased; Silas, Matthew C., deceased; John M., deceased, andAnderson McLean, of Emporia, Kas. James Hunter followed farming allhis life, and died May 4, 1869. Both he and wife were members of theUnited Presbyterian Church. In politics he was a Whig and afterward aRepublican, and together with his brother Matthew served in the War of1812. He was an upright, honest man, and left to his descendants therecord of a spotless reputation. His widow survived him over nineteenyears, and died June 5, 1888, at the remarkable age of ninety-fiveyears. She retained her memory up to the last, and was always happywhen relating pioneer reminiscences. She was kind and motherly, andher long life was a blessing to her children and descendants."[Transcribed 07 October 2006, SLJuhl, compiler]
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