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Personal data James Alston Hunter 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  • He was born in the year 1796 in Abbeville County, South Carolina.Source 6
  • Alternative: He was born about 1793 in Abbeville District, SC.
  • Alternative: He was born in the year 1793 in Abbeville Dist, South Carolina.Source 1
  • He died on May 20, 1844 in Choctaw County, Mississippi, he was 48 years old.
  • Alternative: He died on May 20, 1844 in Choctaw, Mississippi, he was 48 years old.Source 1
  • A child of Solomon Alston Hunter and Elizabeth Harris
  • This information was last updated on March 12, 2014.

Household of James Alston Hunter

He is married to Martha Pryor Harris.

They got married on January 10, 1822 at Jones County, Georgia, he was 26 years old.Source 1


Child(ren):

  2. James W. Hunter  ± 1824-1865
  3. John Hunter  ± 1826-1850
  4. Leonidas W. Hunter  1828-1865 
  6. Whitson Hunter  1832-1865
  7. Gregory Turner Hunter  1834-1902 
  9. Henry Saunders Hunter  1838-1886 
  10. Pinson Calvin Hunter  1841-1910 
  11. Baldwin Whitson Hunter  ± 1843-????


Notes about James Alston Hunter

Location of the Hunter Cemetery
Located in Webster County, Mississippi, the Hunter Cemetery (burial place of James A. Hunter and Martha Harris Hunter) is sited by GPS as follows:
UTM coordinates NAT 27 Datum / UTM Code 16 / Easting 301150, Northing 3729738
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Hunter and McMullen cemeteries
Two Family Cemeteries in Webster County
Certified as Historic to Mississippi
Two abandoned graveyards, both in District 5 of Webster County, have been awarded certificates of historical significance by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
They are the burial places of the Hunter family and the McMullen-Scott families, among the earliest pioneers in Webster and Chickasaw Counties,
Following its January meeting, the Archives board announced that the two cemeteries, neither now in use, have been approved as important in Mississippi history and have been added to a growing list.
On property that once belonged to James A. Hunter, the Hunter Cemetery is situated in woodlands to the south of Hohenlinden Road and a short distance from Cross Roads Church.
Hunter, his wife Martha, and seven of their ten children came to the area in 1835 soon after the Choctaw and Chickasaw cessions of tribal lands. They established their farm near the community of Hohenlinden in the northern section of old Choctaw County before redrawn boundary lines created Sumner County, later renamed Webster.
Hunter was a veteran of the War of 1812. He and his wife, born Martha Harris in Warren County, Ga., are buried in plots that were once in a corner of their property. Today the graves are secluded in a room-sized space in the forest. Their tombstones are the only markers present, although depressions nearby indicate that others also are buried at this site.
The McMullen-Scott Cemetery, situated in woods on the line of Webster and Chickasaw Counties, is adjacent to the farm of Mrs. Grace Hunter.
William McMullen, who once owned 1,687 acres in Choctaw and Chickasaw Counties, arrived in the area in the 1830s. He and his wife, Susannah Scott, were devout Presbyterians and were born, as was James Hunter, in Abbeville, S. C. They were married in 1813 by the notable Dr. Moses Waddel, the master of Willington Academy and later the first president of the University of Georgia.
McMullen was the presiding elder at the founding of the Presbyterian church in Houston. His father, a native of County Antrim, Ireland, was in the huge Scots-Irish immigration to the colony of South Carolina.
The three families, intermingled by Mississippi marriages, migrated through Georgia before settling in different years in Mississippi. Both James Hunter and William McMullen died in 1844, Martha Harris Hunter in 1879.
McMullen’s tombstone, a large obelisk, is the centerpiece in the wooded graveyard. His wife’s grave is not marked. Surrounding their plots are many of their departed kin, including James Scott and his wife Margaret, Samuel H. Scott and his wife Mahalie, Joseph Scott, Mary J. McMullen McGee, Mark Suggs, and Andrew J. Foster.
The families commemorated in these two cemeteries are ancestors of hundreds of descendants, including Hunters, Scotts, McMullens, Womacks, Coles, Faulkners, Henleys, Spencers, Wrights, Woffords, Hesters, Littles, Woodruffs, Hoods, Crumbys, Callahans, Peppers, Orrs, Stages, and others.
Scott McCoy, a site inspector from the Archives department of historic preservation, surveyed both cemeteries and mapped them by satellite readings.
In 1971 the state legislature passed a bill for certifying such "abandoned cemeteries." Among the guidelines for a nomination, the bill stipulates that no burials can have occurred at the site within the past fifty years, that no future burials are planned, and that the deceased are persons "who have contributed significantly to the history of the nation, the state, or the local region."
According to Section 39-5-19 of the Mississippi Code, these historic cemeteries can be repaired, rehabilitated, and maintained at the discretion of the county supervisor in whose beat they are located.
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Hunter and McMullen cemeteries
Webster Co., Miss.

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    1. One World Tree (sm), Ancestry.com
      Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.
    2. World Connect medders_family
      Date of Import: Jan 13, 2007
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    4. Email Cole, Hunter, Cole, Hunter
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    6. Ancestry.com, via http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/26740902/..., March 12, 2014
      LEGEND
      The story of James Hunter and his wife Martha P. Harris begins in Georgia with a legend. It tells that while traveling through Baldwin County with slaves and a herd of cattle he stopped at the Harris plantation for shelter from a snowstorm.
      Martha’s father Thomas Harris, a militia captain, had died in 1817, leaving a widow Sarah and eight children. James was from South Carolina. Near the fork of Long Cane Creek and the Little River, he was born in 1796 in the Hillsborough settlement of Abbeville County. At seventeen he served in the community militia that joined the Youngblood Regiment and fought in the War of 1812. Martha was born in Warren County, Ga., in 1805, and in 1821 James returned to Baldwin County to claim her hand and to become the guardian of Thomas and Sarah, Martha’s younger brother and sister.
      James and Martha were married at the Jones County courthouse in 1822. Their first child Silvanus Gardner Hunter was born in Baldwin in 1823, and with their growing family of six boys (Silvanus, John, James, Leonidas, Samuel, and Gregory), the Hunters pioneered westward through the Georgia counties of Crawford, Talbot, and Meriwether, settling in 1835 in former Chickasaw lands of Mississippi. Along the way through Georgia, John died, and in Mississippi three more sons (Henry, Pinson, and Whitson), plus one daughter (Frances Caroline), were born. During his nine years in Mississippi James, with his sons and slaves, cultivated his 320 acres of farmland south of a village called Hohenlinden. He died in 1844 and Martha in 1879. They are buried in what was a corner of their land, known today as the Hunter Cemetery. It is a room-sized clearing in the dense woodlands of northeastern Webster County.
      This Hunter genealogy is documented by research in the following resources and sites: family papers; the state archives of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia; the National Archives; courthouses of Mississippi (Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Webster Counties); South Carolina (Abbeville and Edgefield Counties); North Carolina (Chowan, Granville, and Warren Counties); the Internet; Ancestry.com, Rootsweb.com; correspondence with Hunter genealogists and family members; and the Mormon Family History Library.
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    Day of marriage January 10, 1822

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    Day of death May 20, 1844

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