Georgia:  Coweta County:  Biography of FIELDEN F. HUNTER 

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FIELDEN F. HUNTER belongs to a family noteworthy as having five of its 
members to serve bravely in the war of the revolution. These were Joseph, 
James, George, William and Nathan Hunter, who had accompanied their father, 
William Hunter, when he emigrated from Ireland previous to the revolution. 
The younger William Hunter married Mary Abernathy, and their son John, born 
in South Carolina, married Abigail, daughter of John and Rebecca (Pitts) 
Johnson, Virginians who had long before settled in South Carolina. To John 
and Abigail Hunter Fielden F. was born in South Carolina in 1825. Eleven 
years later John Johnson and his son-in-law, John Hunter, brought their 
families to Georgia to found a home. They made their journey in wagons, 
bringing with them their cows and dogs, and settled first near Turin, in 
Coweta county, hitching their horses to the trees and making a bush hut while 
they could build their log cabins. Their settlement was made in the midst of 
the dense forest where, save for a small clearing of about ten acres, not a 
tree had ever been touched by the hand of a white man. On this new farm was 
young Fielden reared, and enjoyed only the very limited school privileges 
obtainable in this sparsely settle country. He married in 1844, Oct. 22, his 
wife being Miss Frances Bailey, born in Oglethorpe county in 1821. Her 
father, James Bailey, was born in Oglethorpe county in 1795. Mr. Bailey's 
wife, Miss Nancy Dicks, was a native of Danville, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter 
are members of the Baptist church, to which they have belonged forty-two 
years, having united with it at the same time and also having been baptised 
on the same day. They have five children living: Robert F., J. B., W. S., 
Frederick and Mary. Mr. Hunter is a member of the masonic fraternity. 
Although Mr. Hunter started out in life with nothing, in fact, being somewhat 
in debt, he worked with such vigor that he rapidly accumulated a fine 
property, owning 100 acres of land and a number of negroes when the war laid 
waste his estate. He also lost his health, but with his natural 
determination of character her went to work at the shoemaker's trade, which 
he carried on for thirteen years. His honest integrity and self-respectful 
independence have placed him high in the estimation of all who know him.

Transcribed from MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA published by the Southern Historical 
Association, 1895.