Hunter Family History, part of

 I posted on Facebook 9 years ago:

The cabin , all put together was in Union County, about 9 miles south of Blairsville, in the Choestoe District, all in one piece. A couple years ago it was disassembled and each board marked. Some undecided place and time in the future it will be reassembled. Our ancestor John Hunter and his family built it when they moved from North Carolina. John died in 1848. I think he lived in it about ten years.

The other picture is William A. Hunter/Trammell and his wife Emaline Ray. William was born in 1842 in Macon County, North Carolina. He was the illegitimate child of Rebecca Trammell. Rebecca died before 1850 and he was raised by his grandfather and grand mother Jacob B. and Pollly Hogshead Trammell.

It has been handed down that Polly was a full blooded Cherokee Indian and she drowned while tending her fish traps in the Little Tennessee River. Beware of information handed down: My first cousin and I had DNA blood tests. Both of us were 100% European. If Polly was an full blood Indian, Johnny and I would be at least 1/32nd Indian.

In the Macon County Court Records William A. Trammell's mother Rebecca, in 1842, the year William was born, sued Jason Henderson Hunter, Franklin, NC, town constable of Bastardy and won, even though he had a family. He had to pay Rebecca child support of $100 a year.

Jason Henderson Hunter has an interesting story. He was a soldier in the "Trail of Tears", was a state representative in Missouri and Arkansas. Was charged with a land fraud scheme, formed his own Confederate Civil War unit to fight Union Ships on the Mississippi, went through 3 wives, and at least 3 lovers and a trail of children all his love encounters. The guy couldn't sit still.

Jason Henderson Hunter is the son of John Hunter who built the cabin in Union County (the first picture).

William grew up the name William Trammell, enlisted with the name William Trammell, married with the name William Trammell. Not until after the war, about 1865, did he change it to Hunter. It is a long story but essentially he left Macon County, on the run. His uncle Van Trammell had killed a man named Lambert over a discussion of the Civil War and William gave Van a false alibi so he too was an accessory to murder.

William joined the Confederacy. On, 1 May 1862, he enlisted in Macon County, North Carolina, into the 39th North Carolina Infantry, Company I.

William and his family first moved to Texas, where his son Frank Paris Hunter was born in 1879, in Paris, Texas, but came back east and settled in Woodstock that same year, 1879, near friends he made when he spent time in a private home in Woodstock recuperating from a knee wound during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.

The last two pictures are of William and his wife Emaline Ray in their sunset years on their porch on the house he built on Main Street in Woodstock, Ga. The house is now a tool rental store. When his granddaughter Lois Hunter Carroway lived there I picked grapes off a vine William planted.

Pictures: John Hunter's Cabin, Union County, Ga.; William A. Hunter/Trammell & Emaline Ray; Elderly William A. Hunter/Trammell & Emaline on porch of Woodstock, Ga, Home; Frank & Minnie Tyson on Wedding Day, Dec. 21, 1800; and elderly Frank & Minnie Tyson Hunter at home Manget Street, Marietta, Ga.