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From: "Edward A. Black, Sr." <>
Subject: [Fwd: {not a subscriber} Re: [OKBEAVER] LOST HUNTER FAMILY ORIGIN!]
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 20:34:54 -0700

John Henkes wrote:

> Below are several websites I have found additional information at after I
> thought I had found all I could:
>
> www.genforum.com, www.rootsweb.com, www.familysearch.com and
> www.ancestry.com. Good luck! Ora
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Berna David Hunter <>
> To: <>
> Date: Saturday, June 17, 2000 6:49 PM
> Subject: [OKBEAVER] LOST HUNTER FAMILY ORIGIN!
>
> >Posted on: Beaver County, Ok Query Forum
> >Board URL:
> http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ok/Beaver?read=227
> >
> >Surname: HUNTER, MEEK, STEPHENS, ROARK, BUMGARDNER, BRADSHAW, SMITH
> >-------------------------
> >
> >HOPELESSLY LOST HUNTER ORIGIN PLEASE HELP! OH>ILL>MO.
> >
> >Surnames: Hunter, Meek, Stephens, Roark, Bumgardner, Bradshaw, and Smith.
> >
> >Locations: Trenton Ohio, Butler County, Ohio, Vandalia, Illinois in Fayette
> >County, Effingham
> >County, Illinois, Butler and Carter County Missouri, and Beaver County,
> >Oklahoma.
> >
> >I am sure you will agree with me as a fellow genealogical researcher that
> >a family heritage that is
> >lost is truly a very sad thing. I’m sure you would also concur that if
> >this lost family lineage was of
> >your own personal surname you would feel at least a small sense of loss.
> >At this time I have
> >exhausted all public, governmental, and clan outlets for information. It
> >is my hope that by placing
> >this message on these boards, someone out there with a small scrap of
> information
> >will see this
> >message and contact me. The best way I can envision to start this despaired
> >search for
> >information is to tell you what I know and go from there. Since 1976 I
> >have been looking for
> >information on my gr gr Grandmother, Louisa Ellenor HUNTER, and I hope
> >you can help me.
> >
> >Louisa Ellenor HUNTER was born on 02 October 1843 in Trenton Ohio. Her
> >family traveled
> >from Butler County, Ohio, too, Vandalia, Illinois in Fayette County, where
> >she was married to a
> >Civil War veteran, a man named Richard MEEK. It is not known if she was
> >married prior to this
> >marriage. Shortly after the marriage to Richard the family moved near
> Effingham,
> >Illinois and
> >Louisa HUNTER MEEK gave birth to her first son, my great-grandfather James
> >HUNTER in
> >1863. James Hunter was not the son of Richard Meek.
> >
> >It was soon after the birth of Louisa’s second son, Samuel Barton MEEK,
> >half brother to James
> >Hunter, who was also born in Effingham, that the family moved to Butler
> >and Carter County
> >Missouri, and this is where Richard MEEK died. Soon after the death of
> >Richard Louisa
> >HUNTER MEEK, married Richard's brother Samuel MEEK and the family moved
> >to Beaver
> >County Oklahoma where they settled and bought land. Shortly thereafter,
> >Louisa HUNTER
> >MEEK developed breast cancer and died in Beaver County, Oklahoma, on 27
> >April 1892. It is
> >possible that she is buried at Clear Lake Cemetery near or in Beaver
> County,
> >Oklahoma. Louisa
> >HUNTER MEEK’s second husband, Samuel, settled around Madison, Oklahoma.
> >Louisa
> >HUNTER MEEK’s second son, Samuel Barton MEEK was a deputy Sheriff in Beaver
> >County,
> >Oklahoma. In Beaver County, Samuel Barton Meek donated land for a
> schoolhouse
> >to be built.
> >After Louisa HUNTER MEEK’s death, Samuel M. Meek married Edith ELLSWORTH,
> >widow
> >of famous outlaw, Bill DOOLIN.
> >
> >While in Carter County Missouri and before moving to Beaver County Oklahoma
> >Louisa
> >HUNTER MEEK left her son James Hunter with Hezekiah and Caroline BUMGARDNER
> >HUNTER. Hezekiah and Caroline raised James for several years. James
> remained
> >in the home
> >until shortly after Hezekiah Hunter’s death, and Caroline remarried to
> >Jessie BRADSHAW.
> >Jessie and James did not get along, so James as a very young man ran away
> >from the home. From
> >the time James left the Bradshaw home until he matured into a man he lived
> >with a local SMITH
> >family that took him in. Census, death records, land records, and wills
> >all lead me to believe that
> >Caroline was indeed James’ mother. Because several of the census records
> >for Butler and Carter
> >counties list James in the home of Caroline BUMGARDNER HUNTER then
> BRADSHAW,
> >I
> >assumed she was his mother, and for several years researched this family.
> >It was only after chance
> >meeting of a distant cousin that I was shown the error of my research.
> >My cousin sent me records
> >from my own grand uncle written in his own hand, which stated that Louisa
> >Hunter MEEK was
> >the true mother James HUNTER.
> >
> >It is apparent that Louisa HUNTER MEEK had family in both Fayette and
> Effingham
> >counties in
> >Illinois, because she spent a great deal of time in both counties. If so
> >these families are lost to this
> >line of the HUNTER and MEEK families. About the same time that Louisa
> Hunter
> >appears on
> >the Missouri Censuses so does William Hunter, Charles Hunter, Caroline
> >Bumgardner &
> >Hezekiah Hunter. Most are listed as being from Ohio. I believe it is
> possible
> >that William Hunter
> >was Louisa’s father, and Hezekiah Hunter, the husband of Caroline
> Bumgardner
> >was one of her
> >brothers, but I have yet to find proof. But why else would Louisa give
> >Hezekiah and Caroline
> >Hunter her son James, if they were not family? She wouldn’t just give her
> >son to anybody, I think
> >it is probable that Hezekiah and Louisa were brother and sister. Here are
> >some cold hard facts of
> >the Hunter, Meek, Bradshaw, and Baumgardner families:
> >
> >James Hunter’s mother was: LOUISA ELLENOR1 HUNTER was born October 02,
> >1843 in
> >Trenton, Butler County, Ohio, and died April 27, 1892 in Beaver County,
> >Oklahoma. She married
> >(1) UNKNOWN. She married (2) RICHARD R. MEEK April 08, 1868 in Vandalia,
> >Illinois,
> >Fayette County, son of RICHARD MEEK and CATHERINE SMITH. He was born July
> >16,
> >1834 in Ohio, and died February 04, 1870 in Danver, Fayette County,
> Illinois.
> >She married (3)
> >SAMUEL M. MEEK, (Richard Meek’’s 1834-1870 brother) son of RICHARD MEEK
> >and
> >CATHERINE SMITH. He was born October 18, 1847 in McLean, County, Illinois,
> >and died July
> >02, 1917 in Drummond, OK..
> >
> >Child of LOUISA ELLENOR HUNTER and UNKNOWN is:
> >
> >i. JAMES2 HUNTER1, b. March 12, 1863, Effingham, Illinois; d. July 29,
> >1958, Ellsinore,
> >Missouri; m. SUFFRONIA (SOPHRONIA) JANE STEPHENS, January 29, 1888,
> Ellsinore,
> >Carter County, Missouri; b. September 23, 1868, Marble Hill, Bollinger
> >Co., MO; d. November
> >27, 1947, Joplin, Carter Co., MO.
> >
> >Child of LOUISA ELLENOR HUNTER and RICHARD MEEK is:
> >
> >ii. SAMUEL BARTON2 MEEK, b. April 25, 1870, Bloomington, McLean County,
> >Illinois; d.
> >February 20, 1942, Winfield, Kansas; m. MARGARET GERTRUDE HANNA, January
> >01, 1889,
> >Pleasanton, Kansas; b. June 24, 1837, Metz, Vernon County, Missouri; d.
> >May 09, 1943,
> >Windfield, Cowley County, Kansas.
> >
> >There is old family chatter about a third son named INDIAN JOE, but I have
> >found nothing to
> >substantiate this. I have no parent or sibling information for Louisa
> Hunter
> >Meek, all I have is a
> >letters written by my grand uncle William in 1947 stating; " Ellen Hunter
> >and was born in the state
> >of Ohio and married near Effingham, Illinois. Children, James Hunter and
> >Sam B. Meek were
> >born near Effingham, Illinois. Her parents were Hunters and born in Ohio.
> >Five children 3 boys
> >and 2 girls all born in Ohio and nationality English." So, this tells me
> >that Louisa had five siblings.
> >
> >Listed below is all the information I have on Caroline and the Bumgardner
> >family. I realized a
> >long time ago that if I was to ever locate any information on my own
> family,
> >I would then have to
> >research the other families surrounding my own. This includes the
> Bumgardner,
> >Roark, Bradshaw,
> >and Smith families.
> >
> >1. CAROLINE2 BAUMGARDNER (ANTHONY1) was born 1849 in Ohio or Tennessee,
> >and
> >died October 09, 1927. She married (1) HEZEKIAH HUNTER. She married (2)
> >THORTON
> >HAWTHORNE LACY. She married (3) JESSIE W. BRADSHAW July 01, 1877 in Carter
> >County, Missouri. He died September 24, 1895 in Ellsinore, Missouri.
> >
> >Notes for HEZEKIAH1 HUNTER He married CAROLINE BAUMGARDNER, daughter of
> >ANTHONY BAUMGARDNER and ELIZABETH DAVIS. She was born 1849 in Ohio or
> >Tennessee, and died October 09, 1927.
> >
> >Notes for CAROLINE BAUMGARDNER:
> >
> >Caroline had three other children with Jessie that died in infancy. John,
> >James, and Elizabeth
> >Bradshaw.
> >
> >More About THORTON HAWTHORNE LACY:
> >
> >Fact 1: Third Husband to Caroline.
> >
> >More About JESSIE W. BRADSHAW:
> >
> >Fact 1: Brplace Shiloh Cemetary, Carter County , Missouri.
> >
> >Fact 2: 2nd Husband to Caroline.
> >
> >More About JESSIE BRADSHAW and CAROLINE BAUMGARDNER:
> >
> >Marriage: July 01, 1877, Carter County, Missouri
> >
> >Children of CAROLINE BAUMGARDNER and HEZEKIAH HUNTER are:
> >
> >i. EDWARD A.3 HUNTER, b. Bet. 1862 - 1966, Ohio or Missouri; m. MARY ANN
> >COLLINS,
> >August 25, 1889.
> >
> >More About EDWARD HUNTER and MARY COLLINS:
> >
> >Marriage: August 25, 1889
> >
> >ii. WILLIAM HUNTER, b. Bet. 1871 - 1872, Ohio or Missouri.
> >
> >iii. BEDFORD A. HUNTER, b. 1874, Ohio or Missouri.
> >
> >Children of CAROLINE BAUMGARDNER and THORTON LACY are:
> >
> >iv. QUILLA3 LACY.
> >
> >v. CLIFFORD LACY.
> >
> >vi. JESSIE LACY.
> >
> >vii. RUFUS LACY.
> >
> >Children of CAROLINE BAUMGARDNER and JESSIE BRADSHAW are:
> >
> >viii. MALINDA. BRADSHAW, b. November 22, 1881, Missouri; d. 1973, Poplar
> >Bluff,
> >Missouri; m. JOHN T. ROARK, March 19, 1898, Ellsinore, Missouri; b. 1872,
> >Alabma Or
> >North Carolina.
> >
> >Notes for MALINDA BRADSHAW:
> >
> >Had ten children in all.
> >
> >More About JOHN ROARK and MALINDA BRADSHAW: Malinda Bradshaw Roark is
> >mentioned in James HUNTER’s obituary as his half sister. (See, I wasn’t
> >the only one confused ;)
> >
> >Marriage: March 19, 1898, Ellsinore, Missouri
> >
> >ix. CHARLES BRADSHAW, b. April 24, 1884; d. January 06, 1924.
> >
> >x. HENRY ARSON BRADSHAW, b. September 23, 1866; d. January 08, 1929.
> >
> >Does any of this ring any bells? It is my hope that this information will
> >assist you in your
> >research, and by assisting you, you will assist me, whereas you if you
> >can add to this information,
> >or see something that I can’t you will let me know. I have been looking
> >for a long time now, and
> >it is my hope that we can assist each other. This is all the information
> >that I have, would you
> >know of anything else? Can you help me? If you think you have any
> information
> >please contact
> >me directly! Thank You Very Much for Your Time!
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >
> >Berna David Hunter
> >
> >Gravette, AR.
> >
> >
> >
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