John Hunter married Mary Huston and emigrated to America inn 1811. Also in 1811, their first child, Samuel Huston Hunter, was born, in Philadelphia. They moved from Philadelphia, living for a while in Mifflin County, PA, and making their way West, ended up living in East Deer, PA. A granddaughter wrote an informal history of John and Mary and this unpublished family history was used as a starting point to build documentation of their lives.
If Irish naming patterns hold out, John's father would have been Samuel Hunter. His mother later came to America with younger sisters of John, Violet and Margaret, and a nephew, George Anderson. In the passenger list for these persons, it was revealed that his mother's name was Elizabeth. The family history states that his mother's maiden name was Huston, same as the maiden name of John's wife, Mary.
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| Date of Birth | 3rd Jun 1791 | VIEW SOURCE |
| Date of Death | 8th Nov 1869 | VIEW SOURCE |
| Place & Date of Marriage | John Hunter and Mary Huston were married on 7 Feb 1810 by a Rev McCrea who served in the parish of Donagheady, Co Tyrone, in the early 1800s. | |
| Place of Death | "John Hunter, a resident of East Deer township, was killed yesterday on the West Penn Railroad, at Dyke's Station, near Tarentum. He was walking on the track, stepped off to a siding to avoid a freight train which was approaching and unfortunately a coal train was barking down this siding at the same time and one of the cars struck him knocking him down on the track, when two cars passed over him. Alderman Dist--- held an inquest, and the jury rendered a verdict of accidental death. Deceased was seventy-nine years of age and was both short-sighted and partially deaf, to which causes the accident may be attributed." | VIEW SOURCE |
| New Type | The family history, written by a granddaughter | VIEW SOURCE |
