About 1979.
Edith Hunter Sims (1908-1996). According
to my genealogy software we are 1/2 first cousins, twice removed. At the time
we met, in the 1970s Edith and her first cousin Eric "Joe" Hunter
were the only living grandchildren of our ancestor Jason Henderson Hunter (abt
1817 - abt 1885), who was mine and my generation of Hunter first cousins great
great grandfather.
For a few
years she and her Joe came to the Hunter
Reunions in Marietta and the bigger Hunter Reunion in Blairsville. Then she brought her two sons. One son was a big game hunter and owned a
chain of saloons across the Southern United States. I think he told me his restaurants were
decorated with his hunting trophies, such as deer heads, elk heads, and
whatever. The other son was one of the
founders and vice president of Holiday Inn.
He lived in Memphis, and later retired and moved to Hot Springs,
Arkansas, and bought his own bank.
One time
Edith and her two sons were here the day before the Reunion and they wanted me
to drive them around in their plush rented car and visit my uncles. At one uncle's house, who lived in an average
income house, after we had a cordial visit, back in the car, the son who owned
the bank reach for his beer, found it was warm, he lowered the window and toss
the can onto my uncle's front lawn. That
said a lot of how he probably felt about us.
A few years
later Edith had a stroke and was blinded.
When I was with Anna on a business trip to Memphis I drove to Jonesboro,
Arkansas, and looked up her grave. She
is in a big plot with the rest of her family and parents. I looked for Jason's grave in the same huge
graveyard but could not find it.
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