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Below is a family biography included in The History of Sumner County, Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1887. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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W. A. Hunter, farmer and retired druggist, was born in Warren County, Tenn., in 1837, and is one of a family of four children born to the union of Thomas J. and A. Hunter, natives of North Carolina and Warren County, Tenn., respectively. The father came to Warren County when a small boy. He died in 1840. The mother was born in 1815 and died in 1883. Our subject was educated in Nashville and was apprenticed at the age of fourteen to learn the drug business. In 1865 he married Miss C. P. Gaildroth, a native of Jackson County, Tenn., born in 1859, and the daughter of Joseph and Martha Gaildroth. This union resulted in the birth of four children: William A., Addie A. (deceased), Mattie A. (deceased) and Josephine A. Mr. Hunter was engaged in the drug business in Nashville for twenty years, and is now living on his farm in Sumner County, Tenn. He is and has always been a Democrat in politics.
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This family biography is one of 115 biographies included in The History of Sumner County, Tennessee published in 1887. The History of Sumner County was included within The History of Sumner, Smith, Macon & Trousdale Counties of Tennessee. View the complete description here: History of Sumner, Smith, Macon and Trousdale Counties of Tennessee
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