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Notes on Hiram's career as a Cumberland Presbyterian minister:
http://www.cumberland.org/hfcpc/minister/HunterHA.htm
The subject of this brief biographical sketch was a son of James and Elizabeth Hunter. He was born on the thirteenth of August, 1800, in Campbell county, Virginia, and was a Scotch-Irish extraction. About the year 1804 his father removed with his family to Kentucky and settled in Russellville, Logan county. Here he was raised and educated. His father was in good circumstances and gave his son as good an education as the facilities of the country at that time would afford.
He studies all the branches of an English education, and as his father intended him for the bar he became a pretty fair Latin scholar. The death of his father occurred in 1814, and having no special preference for his father's choice of a profession for him he asked his mother's permission to learn a trade and chose that of a saddler. At this trade he worked about two years, or till he made profession of religion in September, 1817, at Liberty meeting-house, about three miles from Russellville, at a Cumberland Presbyterian camp-meeting conducted by Rev. Messr. Wm. Harris and Alex. Chapman, assisted by a young licentiate named Buoy....
he at once engaged to study theology with Rev. Finis Ewing, preparatory to the work of the ministry. Upon his return home preparation was being made to carry out this engagement; but just as his clothes were ready and well packed, and the day appointed when he should start to Christian county, then the residence of Rev. Finis Ewing, a letter came from General Andrew Jackson, calling for a company of volunteers to go against the Seminole Indians, who had invaded some of the Southern States, and were destroying the lives and property of the citizens. Forthwith he addressed a letter to Rev. Finis Ewing setting forth the facts and asked his advice as to the propriety of his going on that expedition. Mr. Ewing answered at once and advised him to go. A very hasty preparation was now made for the departure of the company. Mr. Hunter joined it, and by the voice of the company served it as orderly sergeant. They left Russellville in January, 1818, reported at Nashville,...
REV. HIRAM ABIFF HUNTER and his twin brother, Rev. Howlett Hunter, were born August 13, 1800, near Lynchburg, Virginia. They were the children of James Hunter and Elizabeth Howlett Hunter, and with their parents removed to Logan county, Kentucky, in 1804. Work upon a farm and in a saddler's shop occupied the time that was not spent in school, and thus the hands as well as the head were prepared for usefulness in after life. Hiram's first public act was to enlist in the war of 1812, but as his parents did not approve of the act he was permitted to return home. He was designed by his father for the law, and accordingly his education took that direction; but his conversion, at the age of seventeen, at a camp-meeting near Russellville, Ky., turned him at once toward the ministry. His father was dead, and his mother a widow living in Russellville with her children. Occasionally boarders were there attending school; but the young convert braved it all, set up the family altar, and conducted family worship...
In 1839 he removed to Owensboro, Ky, where he remained as pastor of the church ten years, in 1844 marrying Emma M. Griffith, who is now his widow. In 1849 he removed to Uniontown, Pa. Here he was pastor of the church four years, then four years pastor in Philadelphia. In 1857 he took up his residence in Louisville, Ky., and remained pastor of the church there till 1861, when he became chaplain of the 28th Kentucky Volunteers. After some service in the field he was transferred to the hospitals at Louisville, and remained there till the close of the war. Since that time he has traveled and preached in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky until increasing age and failing health compelled him to give up regular work, but he still continued to preach occasionally until a short time before his death. His last public act was to assist Dr. Detwiler in administering the Lord's Supper in the Lutheran church in Louisville....
Mr. Hunter was four times married, and was the father of thirteen children. Two died at Logansport, Ind., one at Princeton, two at Owensboro, Ky., and one at Nashville, Tenn. Of the six living children, and their wives and husbands, all but two have been or are teachers. Hiram A. Hunter, Jr., whose mother was Agnes Cowardin, resides in Topeka, Kansas. D. E. Hunter, whose mother was Susannah R. Robb, resides at Bloomington, Indiana, but for seven years past has been Supt. of Public Schools, at Washington, Indiana. Robt. H. Hunter, whose mother was Mary J. McNeely, is a resident of Las Vegas, New Mexico. Mrs. Mary E. Foskett, wife of the Rev. Geo. E. Foskett, of the M.E. Church South, is stationed with her husband at Elizabethtown, Ky. Misses Emma H., and Alice G. Hunter, teachers in the public schools at Louisville, are residing with their mother at 435 East Madison street Louisville, Ky.
His last illness was of two months duration, and during most of the time he was delirious. His death, which was peaceful, took place on Sunday, Nov. 4, 1883, at his residence in Louisville, Ky. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. S. Grider, of Bowling Green, Ky., the burial by Excelcion Lodge F. & A.Masons, at that beautiful city of the dead, Cave Hill. After the burial, many beautiful floral tributes were brought by loving friends, and his own children placed them upon his grave.
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