{"id":835,"date":"2015-09-20T16:26:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T21:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=835"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:54:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:54:03","slug":"james-b-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/james-b-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"HUNTER, James B."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JAMES B. HUNTER<\/strong>, farmer and teacher, of Bedford County, Tenn., is a son of <strong>E. W. Hunter<\/strong>, who was born in North Carolina, and came to Tennessee with his father when a mere lad.\u00a0 He was married in 1880 to <strong>Susanna Wilson<\/strong>, and by her is the father of six children:\u00a0 <strong>Sarah M., Robert P., Emily, Margaret M., Thomas H. M. and J. B<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Mrs. Hunter&#8217;s<\/strong> death occurred in 1848, and in 1849 <strong>Mr. Hunter<\/strong> wedded <strong>Margaret B. Jones,<\/strong> and to them were born three children, only one of whom is living.\u00a0 <strong>Mr. Hunter<\/strong> died in 1876 at his residence in Marshall County.<\/p>\n<p><strong>James B. Hunter<\/strong> was born April 27, 1838, and was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools.\u00a0 He began teaching when quite young, and then clerked in a dry goods store until the breaking out of the Rebellion, when he enlisted in Company F, Seventeenth Tennessee Infantry.\u00a0 He was lieutenant of his company and acted about half the time as adjutant of the regiment.\u00a0 In 1862, when the army was reorganized; he enlisted in the Twenty-second Tennessee Cavalry and was captured near Montgomery, Ala.\u00a0 He was a participant in the battles of Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Franklin and numerous lesser engagements.\u00a0 At the close of the war he returned home and in 1867 was married to <strong>Mary C. Cooper,<\/strong> who bore him the following family of children:\u00a0 <strong>Ida L., Sarah E., Frank W. and Charles P.\u00a0 Mr. Hunter<\/strong> resides near Bell Buckle, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.<\/p>\n<p>Transcribed by Kathryn Hopkins<\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford &amp; Marshall Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminescences [Sic], Observations, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMES B. HUNTER, farmer and teacher, of Bedford County, Tenn., is a son of E. W. Hunter, who was born in North Carolina, and came to Tennessee with his father when a mere lad.\u00a0 He was married in 1880 to Susanna Wilson, and by her is the father of six children:\u00a0 Sarah M., Robert P., &#8230; <a title=\"HUNTER, James B.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/james-b-hunter\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about HUNTER, James B.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1202],"tags":[2625,2629,2616,2620,2628,2626,2623,2615,2621,2619,2627,2618,2622,2624,2617],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","category-marshall","tag-cooper-mary-c","tag-hunter-charles-p","tag-hunter-e-w","tag-hunter-emily","tag-hunter-frank-w","tag-hunter-ida-l","tag-hunter-j-b","tag-hunter-james-b","tag-hunter-margaret-m","tag-hunter-robert-p","tag-hunter-sarah-e","tag-hunter-sarah-m","tag-hunter-thomas-h-m","tag-jones-margaret-b","tag-wilson-susanna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}