The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-07-19
OBITUARY.


December, 1872, and was brought r.
this Parish and Town by his father
Pleasant Hunter, when he was an in
rant. Alexandria was then a small vii
laSe, out was an important trading pos
Tor the Indians. Red river was thcr
navlgated only by keel boats, and as ar
outpost the Town must then have bee,
a wild place. For nearly three scor,
years and ten, as boy, youth and man
robert A. Hunter was associated wifi
Its growth and development. From
the keel boat to the railroad what ;
mighty stride there is! As he Law dv
ing at his home on the bank of the river
ne could trace the track of the one tina,
brought him here and could have heard
| the rum6ling approach of the other as il
rushed into the same Town, harbingel
OF another and higher civilization
earnest of the progress of three-o uar-
tiers of q century.
Of the companions and playmates 0,
those early days, his attending physi.
clan and friend, DR., John Casson, and
Gov. j. M. Wells, hk life long friend
alone survive him. Is it strange that a
friendship which had it's origin in the
twilight OF long ago should have sur
vlved the mutations OF Time and out.
lasted the changes of politics, as well
as The birth and wreck Of political par.
ties and the Kaleidoscope phases O,
public sentiment?
Having exhausted the possibilities OF
the old brick Academy, unknown to
the two last generations, but which
stood near where Morgan's railroad de.
pot is now to be, his father sent him to
college in Kentucky, where he remain.
ea oni y year or two and returned to
this place. Shortly afterwards, at the
age of eighteen, he was married to
Miss Sarah Jane Ford. Of that mar.
riage there was born thirteen children
OF whom four survive him. After the
death of his first wife early in the fif-
ties, he was again married to Miss
Ellenora B. Newell, who died in SEN
TENDER, 1879. Of this marriage there
were no children. Of the original fam
lily of three brothers and three sisters.
the youngest brother John, or Jack as
he was Familiarity called, died at the
Hot Springs in Arkansas some years
| before the war; B. X. Hunter died lust
before the close Of the war; Mrs. Mary
Hynson died some five or six years ago,
Mrs. Martha Davidson and Mrs. Lewis
Texada survive him.
In early life the deceased entered ac-
| lively into politics as a Democrat and
was several times selected by that par
ty to hold important positions. He was
| once sent to the Legislature. In 1853
he was elected State Treasurer and
when his term expired he held by ap-
pointment of President Buchanan first
the Presidency of the State Board Of
Currency and afterwards of United
States Marshall for the District of Lou
isiana, which position he was holding
when New Orleans fell into the hands
of the Federals. He had been one of
the delegates from this State to the Bal
timore National Democratic Convention
and withdrew from that Convention
upon the nomination OF Mr.. Douglass
and was returned with the delegation
to the subsequent Convention which
nominated Mr.. Breckenridge at Charles
| ton. He was in the Mexican war as
Adiutant of Col. S. F. Marks regi-
ment, and when our civil war broke out
he was amongst the first to leave his
family and volunteer. He did not,
however, attach himself regularly to
any command but served as scout and
w m" ppoe,,I I tittod hr tho n,anv ,earS
Of n" hi; s' Hfe Snant in the wonds-days If
mhiah hs vas ue a,waws fnud If taitina
al t.,i;nn anooao,Ss uo ,orvoJ son,s
t;n,o ~ Vi,a;n;o .nI ,vosS.n aot;uo nnr
t tinin ~, IN Tho hattle If Shiloh from
whamca no had hmr inst retnrneI whan
VI. or,aa,s fall Erovn thare ha Went
~ R,ton Rnnee and ;oincd y comnanv
nf '.",'r.n.. -, hoir1- forn,oJ ard enrH
vi ," ';,5 thon -, tho hnrdar worfara nf
,ta. sno,;,>n r.. h.v;n,r haan me,n.
,""t ''. anne,i,tad provost Warsh.u Of
th nt'r ,,l.,np until # was nccnnied NO. thu
Fa Eel r ON the wav TO the battle Of
Roton Rouce he was Shot and wounded
in rhn npris and throuuh fine hand in a
nar 's ranconnter and was "a severe
~ womndaI that he was nermanentIv
,iis.h,ed for further service. Notwith-
Standine which he was cant,,red bv the
TnGarais and was confined in nrison in
Now Orleans suffnrino as he was FROM
Ill, ,,o,n1e for mo,o than a wear and
u ,,,ns timnIIT eynb.noad nc nrisoner
W wa" ,,o r""
u NH NJ a. ,,,.r ondod bro,tan :, ho,1tb
,,. nme we" a,5 msa,s all cone with q
fRo,;l,, ~ hove nn lis hands m edncate
i"'aily ~ ~ vi dotanminad ~ ohanInn
anu a"ppot.3, nso,, sn,,a attar n,sons ~
i p,ana,m "1 Uo haS ,onn had IN idea of
s sdpp.;na the nrosass;on Of the law and
,a1 sor C;Iv stnd;sJ If for wears AZ
haa o".sol"y nnot;au ho did what
s C u,,o' pr his vars vars would have
10" .il.' 80 dn;n 1 nast fftr wars If
a oro 80, u, " others arc ready to abandon
~ oo tive n N If life having mass
.,e " a.oditebie nomination he enfered
eu q - . .bo' uroot;oa rs now nrofassion
a apJi IN w" active e riva,rv with confessedly
anu ~ t 49,, s.rnnrost pars IN tho State
QUE VI tHe stiouS''o D"iS ihi w