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JAMES A. HUNTER, post-office Georgia City. His farm is in the very heart of the fine wheat-growing district, comprising 200 acres in cultivation. His corn crop usually ranges from 40 to 65 bushels per acre, and his broad wheat fields averaged 25 bushels per acre in 1882. Mr. Hunter is one of the few early settlers now living in Jasper county, having come here in 1852 from Monroe county, Ind., where he was born Dec. 7, 1837, and is the son of Richard Hunter, who was born Jan. 12, 1813, in Fayette county, Ky., and when a mere boy he moved with his parents to Monroe county, Ind., where he grew to manhood, and learned the tailor’s trade. He was married Dec. 1, 1836, to Miss Mary A. Sherley, who was born Jan. 19, 1819, in Floyd county, Ind., where she was raised, but moved with her parents to Greene county, Ind., where she was married. Our subject had three brothers, Cornelius P., born Nov. 30, 1840; Thomas F., born Jan. 17, 1842; and Richard E., born Jan. 29, 1854. In the fall of 1852 the family started for Missouri, and arrived in Jasper county Dec. 5th. The father died Feb. 27, 1861. Mr. James A. Hunter, accompanied by his mother and three brothers, started for Indiana July 21, 1861, and while camped on the banks of a river near St. Louis the boys went bathing, and they all contracted a sickness, from which two of the boys died in Cumberland county, Ill., viz., Cornelius P., Sept. 17, 1861, and Thomas F., Sept. 18, 1861. Mr. Hunter, in company with his mother and only surviving brother, continued his journey to Indiana, and after providing them with a good home, he enlisted as a private in Company I, Second Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, in Oct., 1862, and entered camp at Indianapolis, and was present at the battles of Chickamauga, and Wilson’s Creek, being twenty-one days and nights in the saddle; he was also at Knoxville, Tenn. In the spring of 1864 he went with General Sherman to Atlanta, Ga., and afterwards did service through Tennessee until the close of the war. He was discharged at Nashville, Tenn., July 21, 1865, and returned to Bloomfield, Mo. He was married Jan. 13, 1867, to Miss Catharine H. Issenhower, a native of Monroe county, Ind., who was born March 22, 1845, being a daughter of Geo. and Sarah (Caffie) Issenhower, who were natives of Pennsylvania and Kentucky. They have a family of six children: Thomas H., born Sept. 1, 1868; Maud F., born July 3, 1870; Sarah, born Jan, 25, 1872, died Aug. 9, 1872; James H., born June 22, 1874; Mary C., born Sept. 1, 1875; Caroline E., born March 19, 1878; Eva, born Nov, 23, 1881. Mr. Hunter, accompanied by his wife and mother, moved to Jasper county in the spring of 1867. Mr. Hunter’s mother resided with him until she died, Oct. 3, 1878.