Col. Silas Hunter and Sarah C. Sinclair

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Husband Col. Silas Hunter ^{1 2}

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           Born: 26 May 1832 - Mercer Co, PA 1
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         Father: James Hunter (1789-1869) 1
         Mother: Isabella North (1793-1888) 1

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       Marriage: 9 Feb 1871 3

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Wife Sarah C. Sinclair ³

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1 F Alice Hunter ²

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         Spouse: John D. Dennison (1877-      ) 2 4
           Marr: 5 Nov 1903 2

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2 M James Hunter ³

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3 M Charles Hunter ³

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4 F Mary Hunter ³

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5 M Stanley Hunter ³

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General Notes: Husband - Col. Silas Hunter

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He grew to manhood on the homestead in West Salem Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and in the spring of 1856 moved to Kansas. In 1861 he enlisted in the First Kansas Infantry, subsequently serving as first lieu-tenant in the Second Regiment Indian Home Guards, and major of the Eleventh Regiment United States Colored Infantry, from which he was trans-ferred with the same rank to the Fifty-seventh United States Colored Infantry. He afterward filled the ranks of lieutenant-colonel and colonel, successively, of the last mentioned regiment, and was mustered out December 20, 1866. He was then, for meritorious services, commissioned first lieutenant of the Thirty-eighth United States Infantry, with eighteen months' advance pay, but declined the position. Upon the sickness of his father he returned to Mercer County, and on his father's death took charge of the old homestead. He and his family belonged to the United Presbyterian Church. Politically was a stanch Republican, and in 1878 was elected sheriff of Mercer County, and served one term. [HMC 1888, 1182]

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General Notes: Wife - Sarah C. Sinclair

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from Jamestown, PA

1 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1182.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 831.

3 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1183.

4 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1206.