Evening star., 1920-03-07
e Rambler Writes of the Hunter Family

Hunter and Grace Craig the people OF
the town of Boutwell, presented Mr.
Hunter with a handsome silver tea
service in appreciation of his work as
an educator. This service Is now IN
possession ef a member OF his family
in this couAtry.
While James Hunter purchased the
farm MooreReld. later Boutwell,. in
Fairfax county, his literary WORK
compelled him to be a resident of mil
adelphia and Washington for the
greater part of the year, N''h
many other pieces of literary work, lie
edited II supplement to Worcesters
Dictionary. Il complete American eal-
tion of the poems of Robert L.urhs'
many translations from 1orelsh
works, and he was the chief collap-
orator in the World History, trans
lated from the German Augemalh
Weltseschic of which the Amerl-
can editor-in- -chief was the late Prot.
John Wright of Harvard. James
Hunter numbered among his friends
in this country Walt Whitman. with
whom for long period he had dairy
association and for whom he formed
IA warm attachment. Members of the
family are now in possession of nu-
mcrous letters and other tokens. IN
Guiding u cupy OF Leaves of Grass,
sent to him and given him by the GOOD
Gray Poet.
james and Grace Hunter had ten
children, eight of whom are now Nv
ing. They are: Lilas Ann Kennedy
Hunter. now Mrs. Alan Grant Cam
eron of Lyme Fegis, England; James
Hunter of Boutwell, House, Cowper
Gardens, Dublin. Ireland; Eliza Wal
lace Hunter, now Mrs. James Archi-
bald Campbell of Fetlar, shetland.
scotland; John Craig Hunter of Both
we'll, Fairfax county, Va; Jcmima
Marshall Hamilton Hunter. now Mrs.
Albert Mack of Lewinsville, Fairfax
county; Agnes Wallace Hunter. now
Mrs. Stuart Thornton Terrett of Briar
wood, Fairfax county; Grace Craig
Hunter. now Mrs. H. Clifford Cheston
of Yonkers N. Y, and Susan Hunter,
now Mrs. Albert Rhett Walker OF
Washington. The grandchildren of
James and Grace Hunter number
twentyasix. OF the fifteen grandsons
thirteen were in active service in the
world war, seven serving with the
United States Army and six with that
of Great Britrin. ThOee who served
under the American colors were Lieut..
James Craig Hunter of Washington.
Lieut. Frank Mack and SerEt. James
Hunter Mack Of Virginia. Ensign
Geofrrey Hunter Cheston, Lieut.. Har-
old Clifford Cheston and Private James
Hunter Cheston of New York, and
Private Stuart Thornton Terrett OF
Virginia.
Lieut.. James Hunter Cameron, Lieut..
Alan Grant Cameron. Lieut.. Colin
Grant Cameron, Capt. Ralph Grant
Cameron. Lieut.. James Campbell and
Lieut.. Nelson Campbell.
The Rambler received the following
letter from one of the children OF
James Hunter Of Moorefeid Boutwell,
last summer:
have heen decply interested in yomr arti-
cleS relating to the various Hunter families.
who came from Scotland at different times and
settled in that section Of Fairfax county to
which my ia ther bruught his family n
hundred years after the first Hunter settlers.
Nhat yuu have written brings me to a belief
in the I,r,bability that those several branches
of the Scottish Hunters who settled in that
ncehboriIood are connected by common fol-
hears in the old country and that 1t was ny .
curious coincidence that they came 10 settle
sacred soil '' ferhaps they selected ii'is pal
tirular sel.tion hscanse NJ my eldest bruther.
like Scotland
Through yonr articles yon lmve pointed out
what never nbserved while residin. nj MDore-
held MY fstier's purchase and renamed nv
n hD lie in lie