PVT EDWARD HUNTER
GRAVESITE
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Birth:
Mar. 29, 1821 in Newtown Square, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania, USA
Death: Apr. 11, 1892 in Grantsville, Tooele Co., Utah, USA
Son of William Hunter and Sarah Ann Davis
Married Mary Ann Whitesides, 5 Nov 1843, Nauvoo, Hancock,
Illinois
Married Martha Ann Hyde, 30 Mar 1856, Salt Lake City, Salt
Lake, Utah
Edward
Hunter, son of William Hunter and Sarah Davis, was born March 29, 1821 at
Newton Square, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. He was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints in June, 1840 by Elder L. D. Barnes, four months before his
uncle, Edward Hunter. He married
Mary Ann Whitesides in the Nauvoo Temple in November of 1843.
The call came from the federal government for a battalion of
infantry to serve in the war with Mexico, and at the call of President Brigham
Young, they responded to a man. Among the first to come forward and volunteer
was Edward Hunter, leaving his wife and young daughter, Sarah Ann, without home
or income. He was mustered in at
Council Bluffs, Iowa July 16, 1846, a member of Company “B.”
After his discharge from duties, he made his way to the Salt
Lake Valley, arriving October 16, 1847, and there found his wife and child whom
he had left the year before at Council Bluffs. They had crossed the plains in the second company of
pioneers in the care of the family of Bishop Hunter, an uncle of Edward Hunter.
Edward Hunter was the only member of his father’s family to
join the Latter-day Saint Church.
Edward received an inheritance from one of his sisters and decided to
settle in Grantsville, Utah having heard glowing accounts of the advantages of stock
raising in that vicinity. He built
the first brick home in Grantsville.
He served as mayor of Grantsville and also Bishop of the Grantsville
Ward.
Bishop
Edward Hunter died April 11, 1892 and is buried in the Grantsville
Cemetery. His wife, Mary Ann, died
November 20, 1914.
Plot: 0N.03.02.1W
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