The Hunter Genealogy Inspiration continued

Not long ago I told you how William A. Hunter (1842-1928) inspired me to look at my heritage; my family tree.

I mentioned his bastard father Jason Henderson Hunter.  I also researched Jason.

Jason moved to from Buncombe County, North Carolina, to Union County Georgia, in the early 1830s.  Jason and his brother Andrew were soldiers in the infamous "Trail of Tears" removing the Indians from north Georgia and western North Carolina to Oklahoma. 

Jason then settled in Macon County, North Carolina, married, settled down and had several children.  Once he applied for a loan and the bank sent an appraiser to his house to see what he had as collateral.  In the list was a female slave housekeeper and her "high yellow" child, about age 4.  I think Jason might have been the father of that child too.  In court, he was accused of bastardy 3 times, once by William's mother Rebecca, and twice by the same woman with the last name CatherineDavis.  He was found guilty all three times and had to pay child support for each.

He was also the town constable for Franklin, North Carolina.

He and his family moved to Cape Giraldo, Missouri. Something happened to his wife and he remarried.  Again having a flock of kids. 

In Missouri he became a state represenative.  He and his wife and a partner was accused of land fraud.

The Civil War started and Jason formed his own unit which made him a Colonel.  His unit fought for the Swap Fox of Missiouri General M. Jeff Thompson.  They specialized in attacking Yankee ships on the Mississippi River.

After the war and with a new wife he was a State Represenative in Greene County, Arkansas where he also owned a broom factory.

He had at least 15 children from at least 5 women and that is not even counting the slave lady.

I noticed that Franklin, North Carollina, Cape Garaldo, Missouri, and Greene County, Arkansas have one thing in common:  They are all on the "Trail of Tears".