Chicken Fat: My Progenitor John Hunter's Cabin

Posted on Facebook years several years ago:

My ancestor John Hunter (c1776-1850) and his family built this cabin in Union County in the 1830s. He and his wife Polly Edwards are buried in Old Salem Church Cemetery, which he deeded the land for. After John died his daughter Margaret “Patsy” and her husband Daniel England and their family took possession of it.

On postcards it was described as the oldest man made dwelling in Union County, Geogia.

In the latter part of the 20th century it was vacant. The Twigg family owned the land it was on. They sold their land in the early 2000s and the new owner said the cabin would have to go to make way for new for new mountain homes that was to be built.

To save the cabin Charlie Hunter bought it and had a professional to disassemble it, number the boards, for a future resurrection of the structure.

It now has been rebuilt and is standing near the Blairsville’s Farmer Market on Old Smokey Road.

We visited it today. I have been in it before, when it was in Choestoe area and my memory was confirmed that the whole house inside is smaller than our den.

As a detail they even have a rabbit trap, just like the kind I used to have when I was a kid. That is old!