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William D. Hunter, undertaker at Huntington, has been engaged in his present business here since January, 1888. He was born in De Kalb County, Mo., in 1832, his parents being William and Mary (Grace) Hunter, natives of Kentucky and North Carolina, respectively. After their marriage, over seventy years ago, they immigrated to Northwest Missouri, being early settlers of what is now De Kalb County. In 1858 they removed to Texas, where the father died in 1863, and the mother in 1883. The former served as postmaster of Graveston many years, and served one term while in Tennessee as sheriff. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 under Gen. Jackson. The grandfather of our subject, Charles Hunter, was a farmer, and died in Missouri. William D. is the fourth child born to his parents, and during his youth, which was passed among the wilds of Missouri, he received but a meager education. He was married in 1856, in De Kalb County, Mo., to Nancy J., daughter of Michael and Minerva Moore, early settlers of Northwest Missouri, who came from Tennessee. In 1858 Mr. Hunter went to Texas, and there lived until 1871, when he went to Hackett City. Two years later he came to Huntington, and since January of this year is residence has been in the town. He owns five town lots, and a farm of eighty acres three miles southwest of the town, all of which is good valley land. He also has two houses and lots in Hackett City, all his property being the result of his own industry and good management. He has always been a Democrat, and is an alderman. He served three years in the Confederate army, first in Company F, Fifth Texas Rangers, and then in Martin’s regiment of cavalry. He enlisted in 1862, and operated in the Indian Territory and Arkansas until the regiment was disbanded at Richmond, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter belong to the Free Will Baptist Church, and two of their seven children are members of the same church. Mr. Hunter learned the cabinet trade when a boy, and followed the same until coming to this county. In connection with the undertaking business he deals in shingles.