Ed Hunter the Policeman

Ed worked for Glover Machinery in Marietta.  He also was a Weekend Warrior; a National Guardsman.  In the National Guard he got to know Marietta Police Chief Blackwell.   In the 1930s Chief Blackwell hired Ed as a patrolman.  In the middle 1940s Mayor Sam Welch appointed Ed Chief.

In the early 1950s Cobb County Commissioner Rholie Ward appointed Ed as Chief of the Cobb County Police.

In the late 1950s Herbert McCollum became the Commissioner and replaced Ed with Cecil Holt and Amos Bates.

He was a Deputy Sheriff under Kermit Sanders until Ed and Buna Walker ran against him; Buna as sheriff and Ed as his chief Deputy.

He became a Kenneaw Patrolman.

Someplace in his career time line he was a Lockheed Guard.

He retired as a Wells Fargo Armor truck driver/guard.

Ed holding Eddie and Frances in front, Clay Homes

Brother Stanley Hunter and Ed.  Stanley was the first plainclothesman on the Marietta Police Force.

Jesse Cooper and Ed

Ed being sworn in as Chief of Cobb County Police

two above:  Ed as Chief of the Cobb County Police

As far as I know Ed only faced danger twice as a policeman.  One time he chased a suspect into a dead end alley in downtown Marietta.  The suspect, cornered, pulled out a gun and aimed at Ed and pulled the trigger.  It only clicked.  Then Daddy arrested him.   Another time while putting an arrestee behind bars the man slammed the cell metal door onto his hand, breaking it.

He was a very easy going gentle man.  He loved small children.  Before Christmas he called his small nieces and nephews as Santa Clause to go over their lists with them and check to see how good they have been and bellow out plenty of hearty ho-ho-hos.

He also loved to get his young nieces and nephews in his lap and tell them high adventurous stories that he made up as he went.... which he fitted the protagonists to be just like them.   The kids would become entranced in the high adventure.  I remember one little nephew got so upset he hit daddy in the face.