John J. Hunter

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c1812

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"John J. Hunter" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00011605, (accessed April 24, 2024).

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Fayette County, Kentucky, grocer. Kentucky native. Married to Margaret A. Bruce Hunter. Father of Julia Hunter, Kate Hunter, J. Morgan Hunter, James Hunter, and Rebecca Hunter. Owned forty-three enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1850. Co-owner of Hunter & Bruce Grocers, with Benjamin Gratz Bruce, from 1855 to 1869. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 146A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, pp. 13-14 of microfilm. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 432. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 2, p. 454B (p. 7 of microfilm). Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 2, p. 204A. Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, Roll #7016134: All Counties, Fayette County Deaths, File #14653. Williams' Lexington City Directory for 1864-5 (Lexington, Ky.: Williams & Co., 1864), p. 33, 60. William Henry Perrin, ed., *History of Fayette County, Kentucky (Chicago, IL: O. L. Baskin & Co., 1882), p. 564-65. KYR-0001-029-0556.

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