Jacob Hunter Trust

Grave Listing of the Hunter Cemetery

James Alston Hunter
James Alston Hunter, the only son of Solomon Alston Hunter (a North Carolina Revolutionary War sergeant and later a Georgia militiaman) and Elizabeth Harris, was born in Abbeville County, South Carolina, in 1796 near the settlements of Long Myers and Double Bridges. His father died in 1799. In the War of 1812 James served as a private in the militia company of Captain Peter Roger and marched with the regiment to the coast. James and his wife Martha P. Harris of Baldwin County, Georgia, were married in Jones County, Georgia, in 1822. Hunter, his wife Martha P. Harris Hunter, and five of their eight children came to the area in 1835 soon after the Choctaw and Chickasaw cessions of tribal lands. Two additional children were born after 1835 [oral history records a son John died early]. 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. After only nine years in Mississippi, James, aged 48, died of fever in 1844.

Martha Harris Hunter
Martha Harris was born in 1805 in Warren County, Georgia, to Sarah Gardner Harris and Captain Thomas Harris. Martha P. Harris of Baldwin County, Georgia, and James Alston Hunter were married in Jones County, Georgia, in 1822. They, and five of their eight children moved to Mississippi in 1835. Two children were born in MS and one child, John, died early [oral history]. Martha, praised as a meticulous homemaker and palsied in old age, died at 74 in 1879.