Died and Gone to Hell

This is my great-g-g-John Hunter (c1775-1848) and Polly Edward’s cabin in the Choetoe Community of Union County, Georgia.  John and his sons built it in the mid 1830s while, it has been handed down, fighting Indians.   It was probably while they drove the Indians off their land.  Two of his sons, Jason Henderson Hunter (my great-g-grandfather) and Andrew M. Hunter (the oldest) were U.S. Soldiers on the infamous Trail of Tears.

Harriet Hunter and Daniel England.  It looks like Harriet might be in the "family way".

The above is a postcard.  On the back it is named “The Daniel England Cabin”.  Daniel England (1818-c1897) and his wife, John Hunter’s daughter) Harriet E. Hunter (1821-aft 1900) lived in after John Hunter died.  Apparently, Daniel was the first one to get  a deed on the property.

John Hunter's Cabin was moved to the Farmers' Market in Blairsville, Ga.  They made some changes.  I visited it first when it was out near a pasture and Knottly River behind it.  The fireplace was jagged rocks.  When we were there a huge snake skin was weaved between the jutting rocks where a rattle snake molted. 

Harriet’s brother William Johnson Hunter (1813-1899) married Daniel’s sister Margaret Elizabeth England (1819-1895.  Daniel’s and Harriet’s parents are William Richard England (1775-1835) and Martha “Patsy” Montgomery (1789-1865).

Here is what I am building up to:  William Richard England’s sister was Nancy England.  Nancy married Moses Harshaw.    Here is what I have on Moses:

Their family are considered the founders of Helen, Ga.Their aunt Nancy England married Moses Harshaw, who was considered "The meanest man in Georgia".

Among other things Moses is said to have killed his slaves when they got too old to be profitable, forcing them to leap from cliffs of nearby Lynch Mountain or dig their own graves if they were still able.  When traveling about in his buggy, Harshaw some times had a slave in tow, the unfortunately black pulled along behind at the end of a long leather strap securely attached to a collar fitted snugly around his or her neck.

It is said that his tombstone bore the words "Died and Gone to Hell", however now the grave is unmarked.

-"LIVING ON THE UNICOI ROAD" pg53, by Matt Gedney

History of The Stovall House

Constructed in 1837 as a private residence, The Stovall House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The original structure, one of the first residences in the area after the departure of the Cherokee Indians, was built by Moses Harshaw, a colorful Character in the history of the area who was reputed to be "the meanest man who ever lived ". Although an attorney by profession, he worked the land as a farmer and gold miner. He built the house and settled in the Sautee Valley because of its extraordinary beauty.

The Inn is named after the William Stovall family who resided in the house from 1893 to the late 1940's and developed the house to its present state. - WEBSITE

Moses Harshaw (read the last sentence.

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23 Skidoo! (whatever that means). The Roaring 20s young lady on the right is Beatrice Elizabeth "Bea" Hunter Crain (1903-1971). I heard the reason of Bea's nickname "Bea" is because one of her younger brothers (my father) could not pronounce Beatrice when he was a toddler and the big family decided to go along with what he called her. Bea was the only daughter of nine kids and the only one born outside of Georgia (Hunt County, Texas). Before she married she was a Southern Bell Telephone operator in the days before they had telephone dialing. Instead of dialing you would tell her who you wanted, and as a small town as Marietta was at the time, probably you could tell her the first name only. In 1931, Bea married Robert Spencer Crain (1903-1991), who owned several local businesses. They had five children and took in some of Spencer's orphaned kin and raised them as their own.
Bea was very generous and opened her big house for family wakes, I remember visiting both my Hunter grandparents' bodies (two years apart) in her living room, and hosting big family get-togethers.

Emma Viola Hunter Abecrombie

Emma Viola Hunter (1896-1992), my and my Hunter first cousin's first cousin, once removed. Emma was the daughter of John Rafas Hunter (1870-1940) (our grandpa Frank Paris Hunter's brother) and Lilly Belle Hill Hunter (1875-1973). Emma grew up in the Woodstock, Georgia, area, and married Andrew Joseph Abercrombie (1891-1924).  They moved to Birmingham, Alabama, for Andrew to work in a steel mill. Emma lived 96 years and Andrew lived only 33 years.
They had four children, two daughters and two sons.
Emma and Joseph are buried at Bascomb Methodist Church, near Woodstock.

Hunter Sister-In-Laws , 1940sw

The Hunter mothers of Marietta in the late 1940s

Left to rightr:  Janie Petty Hunter, Willy Collins Hunter, Jeannetrte Quintal Hunter, Sarah Frasurer Hunter, Lola Jean Turner Hunter and Ruby Langley Hunter

Left to right:  Janie Petty Hunter, 







Left to right:  Janie Petty Hunter, 






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Lolagene and Bee

Two of my aunts, Lolagene and Bee standing in my grandparents' front yard on Manget Street.
Lolagene Turner Hunter (1918-1996) is the wife of my father's brother Doug Hunter. They had four children, one died at childbirth. Lolajene worked at the library. I remember one time coming into the library and saw her reading a story to a group of children. She was putting much feeling into it, I had a feeling she was a local sensation among the kids. I think the Marietta Journal one time did a story on her story telling abilities.
She and Doug gave Anna and I a baby shower and about 1985 gave all the youngest-generation Hunters an Easter Egg Hunt.

Elizabeth Beatrice "Bee" Hunter Crain (1903-1971) nickname was "Bee" because one of her younger brothers had a hard time saying Beatrice. She was a telephone operator in Marietta. After she married Robert Spencer Crain she settled down having five kids and enjoying her huge extended family, at times helping out when one of her brothers needed it. She and her family lived in a big house on Garrison Road and hosted several family reunions and at least a couple of wakes or visitations that I remember (her parents).

Hunter In-Law Sisterhood

c1952 These are the Hunter women of the 40s-50s in Marietta,, all Hunter brothers' spouses, accept sister Bee: Left to Right, Janie Petty, wife of Ed Hunter; Willie Collins,wife of Herbert Hunter; Jeannette Quintal, wife of Dick Hunter; Bee Hunter, wife of Robert Spencer Crain; Sarah Frasure, wife of Stanley Hunter; Lola Jean Turner, wife of Doug Hunter; and Ruby Langley, wife of Jack Hunter.

Unlike what their husbands would do, they did not line up in age-order.

William and Emaline Ray Hunter

This morning I had plans, like most mornings, to go to the Sweat Mountain Dog Park. However, someone had conflicting plans: The drive into the park was blocked off for maintenance.
Then I went to the Woof Park Dog Park in Woodstock.
After Willow had her dog interaction/mingle time we headed back home. Every time we go there we pass American Tool in an old house on Main Street.
My great grandparents William A. and Emaline Ray Hunter lived in that house. I heard they built it.
Next to the house is Ingram Drive. Coincidentally William and Emaline's grandson-in-law was Vernon Tip Ingram.
I bet they lived on Ingram Drive. Today, I investigated.
I pulled into Ingram Drive and drove beside the HunterHouse/American Tool Rental. Ingram Drive went into a shady area. I followed the road. There were about four houses which have seen their better days. They all are among big old tall trees, the whole neighborhood was shady. At the dead-end I turned around. The driveway I used to turn around in stood a man watching me intently. He was gray headed and smoking a cigarillo.
I thought, "Heck! Why not?"
I got out of the truck and told the man that my great grandparents lived in what now is American Tool Rental and their son-in-law was an Ingram (later I realized it was their grand-son-in-law). I told him a condensed history of how William found his way to Woodstock, and the name change, bla bla bla. He listened with interest. taking a puff of his cigarillo from time to time.
He pointed at the large house behind him. He said they used to be nursing home taking care of the elderly, and a 100 year old woman was a resident there that used to live in that Hunter/American Tool Rental house.
I said it had to be Lois Hunter Carroway. She lived to be 103. Her sister Jacie Hunter was the one who married Tip Ingram.
He said, "That's right! We called her Miss Lois!"
Now, we know another chapter of the Hunter Saga.

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Edith Hunter Sims

About 1979. Edith Hunter Sims (1908-1996). According to my genealogy software we are 1/2 first cousins, twice removed. At the time we met, in the 1970s Edith and her first cousin Eric "Joe" Hunter were the only living grandchildren of our ancestor Jason Henderson Hunter (abt 1817 - abt 1885), who was mine and my generation of Hunter first cousins great great grandfather.
For a few years she and her Joe came to the Hunter Reunions in Marietta and the bigger Hunter Reunion in Blairsville. Then she brought her two sons. One son was a big game hunter and owned a chain of saloons across the Southern United States. I think he told me his restaurants were decorated with his hunting trophies, such as deer heads, elk heads, and whatever. The other son was one of the founders and vice president of Holiday Inn. He lived in Memphis, and later retired and moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas, and bought his own bank.
One time Edith and her two sons were here the day before the Reunion and they wanted me to drive them around in their plush rented car and visit my uncles. At one uncle's house, who lived in an average income house, after we had a cordial visit, back in the car, the son who owned the bank reach for his beer, found it was warm, he lowered the window and toss the can onto my uncle's front lawn. That said a lot of how he probably felt about us.
A few years later Edith had a stroke and was blinded. When I was with Anna on a business trip to Memphis I drove to Jonesboro, Arkansas, and looked up her grave. She is in a big plot with the rest of her family and parents. I looked for Jason's grave in the same huge graveyard but could not find it.

Abercrombie House

This house, I think was the Abercrombie house near Woodstock. A note said it was built in the 1860s. My great uncle John Rafas Hunter (1870-1940)'s daughter Emma Viola Hunter married Andrew Joseph Abercrombie and this is the house they lived in for a while before they moved to Birmingham for Andrew to work in the steel mills.

I found the back porch interesting. When I was growing up south Marietta this type of porch was not unusual. Also, not unusual to see the lady of the house to come out on the porch with a dishpan full of soapy water and heave it out into the back yard.

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Bus

if this picture was taken on Easter Day or not. I remember when I was less than ten years old one Easter we, as a family, sat in the car on the Square in Marietta, timed to be there when church let out. It was enjoyable watching people come to the Square dressed in their best to get an after church ice cream at one of the Square's five drugstores (Jones, Hodges, Williams, Athertons, and Reynold's and Ferra). It was an impromptu Easter Parade.
Speaking of Easter Parades, when in the Navy, stationed in New Jersey, on Easter Sunday, about 1964, a bunch of us went to Atlantic City's Boardwalk. It was the mother of Easter Parades. With the exception of us, people were dressed up, gaudy but nice.

Ida Mae Julian

This is Ida Mae Julian (1876- ? ). She is the daughter of John George Julian and Elizabeth Glorenia Hunter Julian. Elizabeth is the daughter of my great great grandfather Jason Henderson Hunter and Elizabeth Sherrill.
According to family stories, Elizabeth's brother John Andrew Hunter disapproved of their marriage because John Julian was Jewish. I don't know the how or any other details but John and Elizabeth Hunter Julian met an untimely death. Ida Mae and her sister Margaret was orphaned. Their uncle, John Andrew Hunter adopted them and raised them in a strict Baptist household. It was also handed down that he controlled their parents' money, Julians owned a big ranch in Idaho.
One determined researcher, Sherrill found a descendent of Ida Mae. She and her husband ran into the male descendent at a Dentists' Convention. Small world.
I am going through the notes Sherrill gave me and came up with this so far:

She found Ida Mae Julian on a 1900 Census living in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, in a boardinghouse owned by Widowed Margaret Wessburg. Margaret Wessbug was Mrs. Margaret Hunter Wessbug. She was sisters with Ida Mae's mother Elizaabeth. Margaret's husband died in Memphis before 1896.
Next door to the boardinghouse was Thomas Jones and his wife. Thomas was a Memphis policeman.
On the 1910 Census, Ida Mae and Margaret was living in Oregon. Also they have a 6 year old David Jones., no relationship filled in.
On the 1920 Census they are in Santa Cruz, California. David is still with them, 16 years old and now his last name as been changed to Julienne.
It seemed David's father, so they said, was a man of mystery, no one knew him, they just knew his name: Rozelle Julienne. It was a quick marriage, married and then he left never to return.
David's full name was David Hunter Julienne.
Sherrill hinted something is fishy. I wonder that too. The last name Julienne is too similar to his mother's last name of Julian.

It is like history repeating itself. Ida Mae's grandfather, Jason Henderson Hunter, who is my great-great grandfather was the town constable of Franklin, North Carolina, when he knocked up my great great grandmother Rebecca Trammell.

Anyway, David Hunter Julienne married Alice Johanne Emile Schougaard. She was born in Copenhagen. Their son is Charles "Chuck" Hunter Julienne (1933-1910) who Sherrill and her husband happened to run into a dentists' convention, talked about genealogy and discovered they were researching the same family. Small world.

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