The Mt. Olive Baptist Church Cemetery is located about halfway (approx. 7 miles each way) between Chandlerville and Oakford, Illinois. It is located at the intersection of the Chandlerville-Oakford Road and Pontiac Road. Look for Mt. Olive Baptist Church. This is a transcription of the cemetery.
MAJOR GENERAL WOODBURN HUNTER: R.A.; b. 24 May 1844; s. of Lieut.-Col. Charles Hunter; Bombay Army; m. Marion, dau. of Major General James Morris, of the Bombay Army, 1870; two s. two dau. Educ.: Brighton Coll.; Cheltenham Coll. Entered Royal Artillery, 1865; Capt. 1877; Major 1884; Brevet Lieut.-Col. 1885; Col. 1889; Major General 1898; retired, 1902; Colonel Commandant R.A., 1911; served Nile Expedition, 1884, (despatches, brevet of Lieut.-Col., medal with clasp, and Khedive’s Star).
HONORABLE GORDON HUNTER: Chief Justice, Supreme Court, British Columbia, since 1902; b. 4 May 1863; education: Brantford College Institute; Toronto University. Barrister, 1888; K.C. 1900. Address: Victoria, British Columbia. Clubs: Union, Victoria: Vancouver.
(Reference 19) ANDREW HUNTER: clergyman, b. in Virginia in 1752; d. in Washington, D.C. 24 February 1823. He was the son of a British officer, was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Philadelphia in 1773, and immediately afterward made a missionary tour through Virginia, and Pennsylvania. He was appointed a Brigade Chaplain in 1775, and served throughout the Revolution, and received the public thanks of General Washington, for valuable aid in the Battle of Monmouth. In 1794, he was principal of a school near Trenton, N.J. In 1804 he was elected professor of Mathematics and Astronomy in Princeton, but … Read more
SIR JOHN MARK SOMERS HUNTER: Kt., cr. 1923; M.A.; D.Lit.; formerly Director of Public Instruction, Burma; b. 1865; s. of late Rev. Joseph William Hunter, formerly Rector of Chid dingfold, Surrey, and Jessie Collymore Hunter; m. 1896 Isabella Mary, dau. of late Richard Laffan, J.P., of Cloverfield, Co. Limerick; one dau.; educ.: Denstone College, Staffs.: St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, Indian Educational Service formerly Professor of English, the Presidency College, Madras, etc. Publications: Miscellaneous educational publications. Address: 52 Sydney Street, Chelsea, S.W. 3. Club: East India United Service.
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WILLIAM HUNTER: C.B. 1916; M.D. (Gold Medallist) C.M. (Edin.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.) F.R.S.E., Colonel A.M.S.; Consulting Physician to Eastern Command; Late Senior Physician, London Fever Hospital; Consulting Physician Charing Cross Hospital; Dean of Medical School, 1910-15; b. 1 June 1861; s. of the late Robert Hunter of Birkenhead; educ.: Edinburgh University; University of Leipsic; Vienna; Strasburg, Ettles Scholar, Edin. University, 1883; research student of Cambridge University, 1887-90; Arris and Gale Lecturer, Royal College of Surgeons, England, 1889-90; Examiner in Medicine, University of Glasgow, 1900-04, Royal College of Physicians, London, 1917-21, University of Cambridge; President of Medical Advisory Committee, Eastern Mediterranean and … Read more
MAJOR RICHARD DEVAS HUNTER: D.S.O. 1919 late The Cameronians; y.s. of Robert Lewin Hunter of Lincoln’s Inn; m. 1918, Vixen, dau. of Harry Lomas; one s. Served European War (D.S.O. and bar, despatches thrice, Ordre de Leopold avec Croix de Guerre). Address: 39 South Street W.1. Club: Naval and Military.
JOHN HUNTER: Senator, b. in S. Carolina about 1760. He received an academic education, engaged in agriculture, and in 1792 was elected to Congress serving till 1795. He was elected United States Senator from South Carolina in 1796 in place of Pierce Butler who had resigned and served from February 1797 till 1798, when he resigned.
SIR GEORGE BURTON HUNTER: K.B.E., cr. 1918; D.Sc., J.P., M.C.I.N.A., M.I.C.E.; Chairman of Swan, Hunter and Wingham Richardson Ltd., Shipbuilders and Engineers, Wallsend-on Tyne, and connected with several other shipbuilding and engineering companies; Director of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Electric Supply Co., Ltd.; Barclay, Curle & Co., Ltd., Glasgow; Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Co. Ltd., Wallsend; b. Sunderland, 19 Dec. 1845; educ.: privately. Served apprenticeship with W. Pile Hay & Co., shipbuilders Sunderland, and afterwards two years with R. Napier & Sons, Glasgow; founded with S. P. Austin the shipbuilding firm of S. P. Austin and Hunter, 1874; in 1880 this partnership dissolved, … Read more
THOMAS HUNTER: (1712-1777), author, eldest son of William Hunter, born at Kendal, Westmoreland, and baptised there on 30 March 1712, was educated at the Kendal Grammar School, and matriculated at Queen’s College, Oxford, on 2 July 1734. In 1737, he was elected master of the Blackburn Grammar School, and was subsequently appointed curate of Balderstone, Lancashire. Composer of many books. He left Blackburn in 1750, on being appointed vicar of Garstang, Lancashire, and was preferred on 18 April 1755 to the vicarage of Weaverham, Chesshire, where he died on 1 Sept. 1777.
GEORGE KING HUNTER: army officer. See Vol. 12 (1922-23), “Who’s Who in America.”
This manuscript, in its essence, is a collection of 948 biographies of prominent men and women, all leading citizens of Western Colorado. In this context, Western Colorado encompasses the counties of Archuleta, Chaffee, Delta, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison, Hinsdale, La Plata, Lake, Mesa, Mineral, Moffat, Montezuma, Montrose, Ouray, Pitkin, Rio Blanco, Routt, San Juan, and San Miguel.
(Reference 20) Alexander Hunter (Pa.). Paymaster 1st Pennsylvania, April 12, 1777. Andrew Hunter (N.J.). Captain 3rd New Jersey Regt. June 1, 1777. Brigade Chaplain August 5, 1778. Daniel Hunter (Pa.). Colonel Pennsylvania Militia, June, 1777. David Hunter (S.C.). Capt. Militia, 1775-1781. Elijah Hunter (N.Y.). 1st Lieut. 4th Regt. New York, 1775; Captain, 1776. Ephsiam Hunter (Pa.). Lieut. Watts Pennsylvania Battalion Flying Camp, 1776. Prisoner Fort Washington, November 16, 1776, released December 8, 1782. George Hunter (Pa.). Surgeons mate, 1777-78. James Hunter (N.C.). Major Militia 1781. James Hunter (Pa.). Second Lieut. and paymaster 3rd Pennsylvania Regt. 1776; Captain 1776. James Hunter … Read more
RACHEL HUNTER: (1754-1813), novelist, born in London about 1754, married an English merchant resident in Lisbon, but after ten years of married life her husband died, and Mrs. Hunter returned to England. She took up her abode in Norwich either 1794 or 1795, and devoted herself henceforth to literary pursuits. She died at Norwich in 1813. She wrote a series of childish novels, characterised by a “strictly moral tendency.”
In the 1980’s a series of newsletters were published four times a year by Seneca County NY featuring historical information concerning Seneca county and her past residents. The current historian for Seneca County placed these online using PDF files. One of the main features of each edition were biographical sketches of early settlers of Seneca County. This is a list of those biographical sketches linked to the pdf copy of the newsletter.
“South Hadley, Massachusetts, in the World War” is a memorial volume commissioned by the town of South Hadley to honor and document the contributions and experiences of its residents during World War I. Published in 1932 by Anker Printing Co. of Holyoke, MA, this volume was initiated by a town vote in 1925 to appoint a committee dedicated to its creation. Chaired by Frank A. Brainerd and with notable members including Mrs. Mary K. O’Brien and Rev. Jesse G. Nichols, the committee aimed to capture the town’s war efforts and personal sacrifices through detailed records and firsthand accounts. Despite the … Read more
HENRY HUNTER: (1741-1802), divine, born at Culross, Perthshire on Aug. 25, 1741, was the fifth child of David and Agnes Hunter. In 1754 he was sent to the University of Edin burgh, and became tutor first to Alexander Boswell, afterwards Lord Balmuto, and subsequently, in 1758, in the family of the Earl of Dundonald at Culross, Abbey. On 2 May 1764, he received license to preach from the presbytery of Dunfermline, and was ordained minister of South Leith on 9 Jan. 1766. He died at Bristol on 27 Oct. 1802 and was buried on 6 Nov. in Bunhill Fields. In … Read more
(See Reference 24) A200 ROLLO, THE DANE: Duke of Normandy, A.D. 912. Married Lady Poppa, daughter of Berengarius, Count of Bayeaux, A201 WILLIAM THE LONGSWARD: second Duke of Normandy. A202 RICHARD I: third Duke of Normandy, married a daughter of a Danish Knight. A203 GODFREY: Count of Eu and Brion. A204 RICHARD FITZ GISLEBRET DE TONEBRIDGE: who accompanied William, Duke of Normandy, to England, and was created Earl of Clare, and made Justiciary of England. A205 GILBERT: second Earl of Clare, married Lady Adeliza, relative to Hugh Capet, King of France. A206 LADY ADELIZA DE CLARE: married Alberic, second Baron … Read more
SIR GEORGE HUNTER: Kt. cr. 1921; M.P. Waipawa, 1896-99 and since 1911; b. Wellington, 1860; e.s. of George Hunter and Margaret Paul; educ.: Brams Private School. Member County Council, 33 years; 35 years chairman Wallingford R.B.; 37 years chairman Porangahou Road Board. Address: Porangahou Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. M.: 1160. Clubs: Wellington; Hawkes Bay; Waipawa; Waipukuran; Ruahine.