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John Hunter (1864 - aft. 1937)

John Hunter
Born in Halifax County, North Carolina, United Statesmap
Brother of
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died after after age 73 in Arkansas, United Statesmap
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Profile last modified | Created 8 Mar 2023
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Biography

US Black Heritage Project
John Hunter is a part of US Black heritage.

John Hunter was interviewed in Little Rock, Arkansas in about 1937 about his life and his time as an enslaved person.

"My father was a soldier (Confederate). He got sick with the scrofula and they sent him back to his old master, Dr. Harris, in Enfield, North Carolina. He was a field hand at first, but after he come back with the scrofula, they just made him a carriage driver. That's how I came to be born in 1864. My father married Betsy Judge right after he came back. They didn't marry then as they do now. Just jumped over the broom."

"My mother was sold. Her father was a Cooper and she was sold to Judge. He bought my mother's mother and her both, so that made her a Judge. He bought her and she had to go in his name. Her husband was left with the Coopers."

"My Aunt Rena was half-sister to my father. They had the same mother but different fathers and they always gave her a little better treatment than they gave him."

Slave Owners

  1. Dr Harris
  2. unknown Judge

Interview: John Hunter was interviewed in Little Rock, Arkansas, by S. S. Taylor as part of the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The results are made available by the Library of Congress. [1]


Sources

  1. [1] Library of Congress - WPA - Slave Narrative - John Hunter - Vol. 2, Arkansas, part 3; pages 359-366, images 360-367 of 394.
  • "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCXM-KJB : 14 January 2022), John Hunter in household of Stanly H. Hunter, Enfield, Halifax, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
  • "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMGZ-FPD : accessed 8 March 2023), John Hunter in household of Eliza Farr, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 37, sheet 8A, line 1, family 180, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 92; FHL microfilm 2,339,827.




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