Stanly Hunter (1836)

Born 1836 in North Carolina, United States

Biography

Stanly Hunter is a part of US Black heritage.

His son 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

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 .