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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
Page1183: "Alexander Hunter, deceased farmer, was born in FayetteCounty, Penn., September 20, 1801, and came with his parents,Alexander and Margaret Hunter, to West Salem Township in the spring of1812, where he ever afterward lived. He was married June 8, 1827, toCatharine, daughter of Adam and Catharine Miller, who came to WestSalem Township from Maryland in the fall of 1802, and settled on afarm now owned by Joseph Calvert and W.H. Johnston. Adam Miller was asoldier in the War of 1812, and both he and wife died in thistownship. Mrs. Hunter was born on the farm previously mentioned, July6, 1807, and has reared a family of twelve children, eleven of whomare living: Alexander and Adam, of Crawford County, Penn.; Margaret,deceased; Albert , of Crawford County; Isabel, wife of James Johnston,of Canada; Lydia, wife of John Amons, of Venango County, Penn.;Esther, wife of Lyman Jackson, of Tennessee; Amos, of Lawrence County;Jane, wife of John McMurray; Sarah, wife of Truman Hall, ofOrangeville, Ohio; Alvin and Marilla. Mr. Hunter followed farming andresided on the old homestead from the spring of 1812 up to his death,January 2, 1886. His widow survives him, and has been a life-longmember of the Seceder and the United Presbyterian Church, and haslived in Mercer County eighty-one years. Politically Mr. Hunter was aRepublican, a straightforward, honest man, and has left a large andrespected family." [Transcribed 06 October 2006, SLJuhl, compiler]
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