Ebenezer Hunter

Evidence from emigration, church (Perpetual Emigrating Fund) records proves that the Hunter family traveled to Utah in 1863. Ebenezer's birth and death dates are confirmed by his death certificate.Note that his obituary in the Salt Lake Herald is in the same article regarding Mrs. Hannah Conder.

Company Unknown (1863) Age at Departure: 32

Ebenezer Hunter was an early convert of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Scotland. He was instrumental in keeping a valuable record of the Bathgate Branch in the Edinburgh Conference from 1846-1854.

On page one of this journal Ebenezer writes:

I was born in Stobhill in the parish of Cookpen County of Edinburgh [Midlothian] on the 22 of February 1831 and brought up there by my father and mother, William Hunter and Elspeth Thomson. My father and mother had 8 children, five of them only I recount any thing about; Hellen, Jennet, John, myself and James.

My father died in the month of June 1841 and left us. Soon after my sister Hellen got married to her husband Alexander Stoddar [Agnes Maud Deakin's records give this name as Stoddard(t)] and Jennet to David Hyind.

I was married to my wife Agnes Martin on the 24 of June 1852 by T.W. Brewarton, President of the Edinburgh Conference, in a public meeting in the house of Walter Muir in Crofthead… By special Command of President Fredrick C. Robinson, President of the Western District of the Edinburgh Conference, witnesses to the above; Abraham Kinghorn, President of the Crofthead Branch, Walter Muir, Alexander Gilchrist.

To this union six children were born:

William (b: 23 Jan 1853 d: 27 Apr 1926) Mary Bathgate (b: 17 Dec 1854 d: 24 Feb 1860) Ebenezer (b: 6 Dec 1856 d: 24 Feb 1860) Agnes (b: 18 Feb 1859 d: 13 Aug 1942) Mary Hellen (b: 23 Oct 1864 d: 31 Oct 1871 ) John (b: 22 Oct 1866 d: 12 Sep 1944)

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Much has been and should be written about Ebenezer Hunter, an early educator in Utah County. He settled in Alpine and later moved to American Fork. His sound mind and faithfulness merits remembrance.

After immigrating to Utah and just two months before Agnes died of a severe inflamation he married "Aunt Alice". Almost four years later he married Martha. He has numerous posterity, the other two wives and their children are:

Martha Alice Parker (b: 23 Oct 1850 d: 31 Oct 1932) (Married: 14 June 1869 Her Parents: William Parker and Maryan Child)

Ebenezer Jr (b: 3 May 1870*  d: 1891)

James (b: 14 Sept 1871  d: 25 Sept 1871) 

Thomas  (b: 6 Sept 1872  d: 6 Sept 1872)

Mary Ann (b: 23 Aug 1873  d: 11 Jan 1960)

Joseph Franklin  (b: 1 May 1875  d: 29 Mar 1952) 

Elspeth  (b: 4 Jan 1877  d: 2 Feb 1959)(twin)  

Alice   (b: 4 Jan 1877  d: 2 Dec 1963) (twin)

Thomas Henry (b: 30 Apr 1879  d: 10 Jun 1959)

Lafayette (b: 14 Jan 1881  d: 30 Jul 1881)

Oscar Parker (b: 29 Jun 1882  d: 12 Mar 1951)

Elizabeth Childs (b: 21 Jan 1884  d: 2 Mar 1890)

Son (Not named)  (b: 1885  d: 1885)

Walter George (b: 28 Oct 1887  d: 10 Sep 1953)

Jane (b: 8 Nov 1889  d: 8 Apr 1976)

Martha  (b: 28 May 1892  d: 4 Aug 1970)

Martha Hannah Booth (b: 20 Aug 1852 d: 3 Mar 1909) (Married: 10 Apr 1873 Her Parents: Richard Thornton Booth and Elsie Edge)

James Richard  (b: 16 Feb 1874  d: 25 Apr 1881)

Jessie Gertrude (b: 4 Jan 1876  d: 11 May 1951)

Robert Alfred  (b: 25 Nov 1877  d: 24 Dec 1953)  David M  (b: 31 Oct 1879  d: 27 Apr 1881) 

Thornton  (b: 2 Apr 1882  d: 29* Mar 1883) 

Alma Booth (b: 19 Jan 1884  d: 28 Sep 1948)

Royal Joshua (b: 10 Aug 1886  d: 6 Oct 1909)

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