Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-14
The Rambler Writes More of the Hunter Family


and an only sister. with numerous relatived
and friends. who. with sorrowing hearts. mourn
his death. A
The youngest son Of Col George
Washington Hunter and Angelina
Moore was George Washington Huns
ter. He graduated in law at the cola
lege at Emmittsburg, Nd. and mar
ried Mary Angelina Conrad. The old
house on Ayrhill descended to him
and he must have lived there up to
about the breaking out of the civil
war. He also owned a house in Fair
fax Court House, and practiced law
in that town and in the adjoining
counties of Loudoun and Prince Will
liam. The reputation that survives
him is that he was good and cap
able lawyer. Whether he disposed Of
the Ayrhill farm on which Vienna
stands before removing to Fairfax
Court House. the Rambler does not
know. but he thinks that is probable.
He removed from Fairfax Court
House and established his home at a
Pi~So "SoS Va NlCAud vi IAc Olu AlSxs
andria. Loudoun and Hampshire rail-
road, which came to be called and
still Is called Hunters Mills. He died
there in 1869. He had several chill
dren. and the Rambler has but a
few notes relating to them. His sons
Robert and Jerome went west. His
daughter Georgeanna married an Of
fcer in the Confederate service. and
the other daughters were Lillian,
Alice. Zaidia and Margaret Elizabeth.
Lillian married man named Foster,
who came to Virginia from Tennes-
see: Alices husband was named Nor
ton; Zaidia married a man named
Ball, and Margaret Elizabeth mar
ried Capt. Frederick Won Dachenhap.
sen, German army officer.
The first SON of Col. George WASH
ington Hunter and Angelina Moore
was Robert Hunter. who married
Mary Wood. He left Fairfax county
some years before the outbreak Of
the civil war and settled on a planta.
ton in Mississippi. He died In the
south. The children he left were
Mary Alice. John Thomas. Jane Elisa,
Susan Maria, Ann Amelia Markham
Hunter. George William. James Rob-
ert and Benwood Hunter. Those
children were all born In Fairfax.
either on the Pommetta or the
Spring Grove farm. The children Of
hr
Murphy Hunter. who went to Massa-
chusetts to practice law: Henry
Hambleton Hunter and Virginia and
Julia Hunter. Jane Elisa Hunter
married Nicholas Davy. an English
man. They were married at the
Spring Grove farm and moved to
Ohio. where Davy became prominent
In politics, representing for several
terms the Ironton district In the
state legislature. They had several
children whose names were Flor
ence. Alice, Rose. Mary. Agnes. LII
liam and Julian. Susan Maria Hun
ter. daughter Of Robert. married Col.
]. Richards Nicklin. a son Of DR..
Joseph Nicklin and his wife. Eliza
oCth S0CiA SdAtcEls d AcLuOoG VI Iu8S
old Maryland family.
They were married at Christ Church,
Alexandria, by the Rev. John T. Johns
ston, and their daughter. Blanche
married the Rev. Henry j. Beagens
who graduated from the Fairfax Episs
copal Seminary. James Robert Hume
ter. son of Robert, married Julie
Series Of Maryland. and their son.
Robert Malcolm Hunter. became a
prominent Annapolis lawyer. They
had four daughters-Mary. Janet.
Helen and Genevieve. Benwood Hun-
ter, youngest son Of Robert. married
Gertrude Weaver of Fauquier country.
and their son. Montgomery Hunter.
graduated from the Columbia Medical
College in 1896 and became a promi-
|, nent Georgetown physician. Benwood
had two other children-Robert
Broadwater Hunter and Alice Napier
Hunter. Ann Amelia Markham Huns
} ter. the youngest daughter Of Robert.
: married the Rev. DR.. John H. Davis
Of the Episcopal Church. Mary Alice
Hunter. the eldest daughter Of Rob<
ert. married John Bull, son of Joseph
Bull Of Canandaigua, N. Y, and 1t Is