Lyman Russell Hunter, Jr. and Jean Lindsay Munday

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Husband Lyman Russell Hunter, Jr. ¹

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           Born: 29 May 1918 - Kansas City, Jackson Co, MO 1
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           Died: 6 Mar 1944 - Liberty, Sullivan Co, NY 2
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         Father: Lyman Russell Hunter (1891-      ) 3
         Mother: Pearl Lunette Chambers (1888-      ) 3

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       Marriage: 30 May 1942 - Emory, DeKalb Co, GA 2

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Wife Jean Lindsay Munday ²

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           Born: 2 Apr 1919 - Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co, NC 2
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         Father: Alex Houston Munday (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Addie Webb Bolick (      -      ) 2

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   Other Spouse: Theodore J. Kuhlman (      -      ) 2 - 12 Jun 1947 2

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Children

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1 M Lyman Russell Hunter III ²

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           Born: 29 Jan 1944 - Newburgh, Orange Co, NY 2
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General Notes: Husband - Lyman Russell Hunter, Jr.

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He was educated at Atlanta, GA, High School and B. A. (Chemistry) Emory University 1940; University activities: member and vice-president Kappa Alpha fraternity, Omicron Delta Kappa (National Leadership fraternity), Phi Alpha (Honorary Chemical fraternity), Business Manager of Emory University Glee Club, and was also a member of the Haygood Memorial Methodist church at Atlanta, GA.
After graduation from the University, he accepted a position as a chemist with the E. I. Dupont Corporation at Charlotte, NC.
At the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted for service in Sep­tember, 1941, at Fort Bragg, NC, and was sent to Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL, and later to Avon Park, FL, for primary training. In January, 1942, he was transferred to Shaw Field, Sumpter, SC, for basic training and in March he was sent to Spence Field, Moultrie, GA, for advanced flying from which he May 20, 1942 and commissioned a Second Lieutenant.
After graduation, he was sent to Craig Field, Selma, AL, as an instructor in pursuit flying. Later, he and two Captains in the Air Corps were selected from the Southeast Division for assignment to the West Point Military Academy to train West Point Cadets at Stewart Field, Newbury, NY, where he was advanced to the rank of First Lieutenant.
On March 1, 1944, he substituted for an Instructor for a night flight and while flying at the assigned altitude his engine failed and crashed at a point fifty-five miles from Stewart Field at 1:00 o'clock A. M., March 2, 1944. Lyman was fatally injured and died at a hospital at Liberty, NY, March 6, 1944. He was due for promotion to the rank of Captain on April 1.
He was posthumously awarded the Air Medal with the following citation:
"First Lieutenant Lyman R Hunter, 0789913 Air Corps, United States Army.
"For meritorious achievement while participating in a cross-coun­try aerial flight on 2 March 1944, when the engine failed while flying at his assigned altitude, he did so conduct himself to place the safety of the cadet, whom he was instructing, above his own. He ordered the cadet to parachute from the airplane and, delaying until he had seen the cadet leave the airplane, he parachuted at such low altitude that he was mortally injured. His one concern prior to his death was for the safety of the cadet who was accompanying him. Lieutenant Hunter's unselfish devotion to duty in placing the safety of the cadet before his own exemplifies the highest tradition of the Army Air Forces."

1 Oren V. Henderson, The Descendants of Robert Henderson of Hendersonville, Pennsylvania (Durham, NH: Self-Published, 1947), Pg 180.

2 Oren V. Henderson, The Descendants of Robert Henderson of Hendersonville, Pennsylvania (Durham, NH: Self-Published, 1947), Pg 272.

3 Oren V. Henderson, The Descendants of Robert Henderson of Hendersonville, Pennsylvania (Durham, NH: Self-Published, 1947), Pg 106.