Texas Death Index (LDS):
Name: John Hunter
Death date: 21 Mar 1952
Death place: Leonard, Hunt, Texas
Gender: Male
Race or color (on document): White
Age at death: 83 years 4 months 1 day
Estimated birth year:
Birth date: 22 Nov 1868
Birth place: Tennessee
Marital status: Married
Spouse name:
Father name: Joseph Hunter
Father birth place: Tennessee
Mother name: Martha Bohannon
Mother birth place: Tennessee
Occupation: Farmer
Residence: Rural Prec. No. 2, Hunt, Texas
Cemetery name: Lane
Burial place: Celeste, Texas
Burial date: 22 Mar 1952
Additional relatives: X
Film number: 2075088
Digital GS number: 4167316
Image number: 1397
Reference number: cn 34480
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976

Marker #: 124
Family Name: Hunter
First Name: John
Birth Date: 11/22/1868
Death Date: 03/00/1952
Location in Cemetery: Abt. 9 ft. n. of Masters
Top Wording: HUNTER
Bottom Wording:
Direction: West
Wedding:
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Other: Double marker with Delia Hunter
source: Sarah (Roach) Swindell

(courtesy Gena Forsyth) Leonard Graphic 28 Mar 1952
John Hunter, 83, Passes At Lane Home

Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon for John Hunter, 83, who passed away at his home in the Lane community early Friday morning. Services were held at the Lane Methodist Church of which he was a member. Rev. Robert Ridley, of Dallas, officiated, assisted by the pastor. Rev. G. W. Gear. Burial was in the Lane cemetery.

Born November 22, 1868 in Putman County, near Cooksville, Tennessee, he was the son of Joseph and Martha Hunter. He came to Texas in 1889. He was married to Deliah McEntire in 1896. Pallbearers were his grandsons: J. T. and Paul Hunter, Burl and Wilford Sprinkle, Claude Hunter, Jr. and Terry Perkins. He is survived by his wife and 8 children: Edd Hunter, Lubbock; Mrs. C. C. McGuire, Ira and Claude, Celeste; Mrs. E. L. Sprinkle, Trenton; Dee Leonard; Mrs. J. M. Perkins, Dallas, Mrs. L. V. Lee, Fort Worth; two step children, Mrs. C. D. Appleby, Hale Center, C. W. McEntire, Oklahoma City; one brother, G. W. Hunter, Dallas; a sister, Mrs. S. S. Kirby Sherman; 15 grandchildren; 8 great grandchildren; 3 great great grandchildren, and a number of nieces and nephews. Two sons proceeded him in death.

Out Of Town Friends And Relatives Attend Hunter Funeral

Among out of town relatives and friends who attended funeral services for John Hunter Saturday were: Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Shields, Mrs. Bert Rogers, Mrs. Ellis Turner, Mrs. Fletcher Bland, Miss Rosa Jackson, Mrs. Esker Sheppard, Mrs. Edd Sprinkle, Mrs. Leila Sprinkle, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. McGuire, Greenville; Mr. and Mrs. Lon Bradley, Trenton; Mr. and Mrs. Gorden Brown, Billy Rae and Sandy, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Kirby and Martha, Betty and Mateline, Sherman; Mr. and Mrs. Mike Boren, Mrs. Charles J. Yeager, Blue Ridge; Mr. Edd Hunter, Miss Doris Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. Brumfield, Mr. John Clinton, Lubbock; Mrs. Bob Hunter and Paul, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Hunter, Shallowater, Mr. C. W. Mclntyre and Edith, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Mclntyre, Oklahoma City; Mr. Harve Hunter, Colbert, Oklahoma; Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Luna, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Morrison, Mrs. W. W. Skinner, Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Castle, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Braddy, Mr. Jeff Parker, Mrs. Ross Curtis, Mrs. Ivan Junell, Mrs Raymon Snyder, Mr. John Wright, Rev. Herbert Minga, Mr. and Mrs. Vern Bumbalough, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Perkins, Terry and Ray, Miss Joe Hunter, Rev. and Mrs. Gerald Gear, Dallas. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Pace, Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Lee and Danny, Miss Nell Sprinkle, Fort Worth; Mr. and Mrs. Ecals Ashcraft and Delores Rogers; Mr. I. J. Boren, Collinsville; Mr. and Mrs. Luther Locke, Ardmore, Oklahoma; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Shield, Howe; Mr. J. L. Sears and Jonny, Hugo, Oklahoma; Mrs. Oscar Lee and daughter, Caddo Mills; Mr. and Mrs. Burl Sprinkle, Bastrop, Louisiana; Mr. Wilford Sprinkle, Texarkana.