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JOHN H. HUNTER, farmer, was born in Williamson County, Tenn., August 15, 1828, within two miles of where he now resides. He is a son of Henry and Jane W. (Bennett) Hunter, and is of Irish descent. His father was born in Chatham County, N. C., in 1786, and his mother in the same county in 1801. They were married in 1821, and died in Williamson County, Tenn., in 1762 and 1871, respectively. The Hunter family were among the very early settlers of Tennessee. Our subject received his rudimentary education in the common schools of the county, after which he took an academic course in Marshall County, Tenn., and finally completed his education by a collegiate course in the Cumberland University at Nashville. At the breaking out of the war he joined the Confederate Army, enlisting in the Forty-fourth Tennessee, Johnson’s brigade and Hardee’s corps, and finally surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Va. Since the war he has farmed, with the exception of two years (1867 and 1868) spent in Texas, he was married, January 26, 1859, to Miss Martha M. Bennett, of Columbus, Miss., who also received a collegiate education at Nashville. They have three children: Henry, born in 1868; Hendly B., born in 1873, and Roberta G., a daughter. Mr. Hunter is a Democrat, and is the owner of 1,200 acres of fine land and a model farmer. His wife is a member of the Christian Church.