City: Memphis
CARY, Hunsdon, lawyer; born Marshall Co., Miss., Aug. 3, 1842; son of Col. Miles and Susan (Wheatley) CARY; father’s occupation, planter in Miss.; moved to Memphis when an infant; educated in the public and private schools of Memphis, Tenn.; enlisted as private in Capt. John F. CAMERON’s company, the “Young Guard,” in April, 1861, and his company became part of the Third Confederate Infantry (whose first colonel was John S. MARMADUKE, who was afterward a major-general in C.S.A.); promoted to junior second lieutenant in Capt. Tom NEWTON’s company of same regiment; he was serving in this capacity at the battle of Shiloh, and was seriously wounded there, and sent to Memphis for treatment, as a result of this wound he was in very delicate health for a number of years, and did no active military service after that time, being honorably discharged; in 1866 he formed a partnership with John F. CAMERON (his old captain) and engaged in the brokerage business about a year; in 1867 he was appointed deputy clerk of the United States district of West Tenn., and so remained until 1869, he secured an appointment as notary public for Shelby county, and was appointed by the governors of a number of states as commissioner of deeds, at Memphis, and for a number of years continued in that line of business, and while so engaged he took up the study of law, and entered practice, and so continued until 1895, when he was elected cashier of the German bank, he was actively engaged in the management of that bank until the bank’s charter expired in 1897, and he was selected by the board of directors to wind up its affairs; he then resumed the practice of law; married Ellen Preston RHEA, May, 1866; Democrat; member and deacon in the Congregational church.
