THOMAS THOMPSON HUNTER
Arizona, the Youngest State, pg 623

Thomas Thompson Hunter, who made a permanent location n 
Graham County in 1878 and who through the passing years 
identified himself with practically every phase of progress 
and advancement, died February 1, 1913.  It was felt as a 
personal bereavement by his many warm friends.

Mr. Hunter was born in Louisiana, February 24, 1844, and is 
a son of James and Alice (Lawson) Hunter, the former a native 
of South Carolina and the latter of Georgia.  The father was 
a large plantation owner in Louisiana. In his family were six 
children: John, who now lives retired in Louisiana; Andrew, 
deceased; Thomas Thompson, of this review; and Julius, Alice 
and Emily, all deceased.

When Thomas Thompson Hunter was sixteen years of age he laid 
aside his text books and joined the Confederate Army, serving 
through the entire Civil War with Retts' Artillery. He was at 
the front in many hotly contested engagements and in nearly 
all of the important battles during the four years, and 
unwounded and with a creditable military record, returned 
after his discharge to Louisiana, where he joined his uncle.  
Together they went to Texas, crossing the plains with a 
party of emigrants and pushing onward to Arizona. Mr. Hunter 
met his first wife upon this journey and later their wedding 
was celebrated in Wickenburg, Arizona, theirs being the first 
marriage recorded in that locality.  They remained with the 
emigrant train and went to San Diego, California, where they 
resided ten yeas, returning to Arizona in 1878.  They settled 
in graham County, where Mr. Hunter established himself in the 
enterprise of the cattle business.

He was a member of the thirteenth Territorial Legislature 
when the capital was located at Prescott.

Mr. Hunter was twice married. His first wife passed away 
July 11, 1893 leaving four children.  Martha Alice is now 
the widow of Thomas k. Davis, of Oakland, California. Mary 
E. married Harry L. Castle, government employee in the forest 
service in Payson and they have three children.  Virginia Lee 
makes her home in Los Angles, California.  Katherine Lawson 
married Dr. J.N. Stratton of Safford and they are the parents 
of two children.  Mr. Hunter was married October 11, 1894 to 
Miss Carrie Maurer, a native of New York who survives her 
husband and makes her home in Safford.

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