Sophia Jane Hunter

Jane was the oldest child of F.A. "Frank" and Mahulda Williams Weaver, who lived on a large tract of land on Horse Creek near the present Columbus, SC. Jane and Sam Hunter married in 1859, and the 1860 census finds them in the Northern Division of Spartanburg County, SC, within the Fingerville District, near where his parents had lived before they relocated to Polk County around 1859. It appears that Sam and Jane soon joined them in Polk County, though it is not clear where the couple and their children lived for those few years during the Civil War. Perhaps she stayed with her parents while Sam joined the Confederate Army, from which he soon resigned, and then perhaps (although evidence is lacking) joined the Union Army, which she claimed in a statement claiming a widow's pension submitted in 1885.

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• Saml HUNTER 22 Farmer Real estate $6000 Pers Estate $1406 b. SC
• Jane S. HUNTER 18 b. NC
• Jno A. DUNKIN 26 SC Farmer
• Mary A. DUNKIN 21 SC

Her husband Samuel, along with her father and his father, was murdered on December 30 or 31, 1864, in Columbus, NC, during a political massacre (see http://www.geni.com/projects/Not-Very-Neighborly-the-1864-Political-Murders-in-Columbus-Polk-County-North-Carolina/31511). They had only been married five years and had two young children. She was pregnant with the third, who was born in the late spring of 1865. Years of financial hardship and lawsuits, led by her mother Mahulda Weaver, followed. There was much confusion about what properties her husband owned vs. what his father owned,

In 1870 census, the widowed Sophia Weaver Hunter and her children were living in Campobello Twp of Spartanburg Co, SC:

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• HUNTER Sophia 26 Keeping House Real estate:0, personal estate: $100 b. NC
• Charles 9 b. SC Attending school
• Mary 7 b. SC Attending school
• Samuel 5 b. NC At home

By the 1880 census, she was again living in Columbus Twp, Polk County, NC, enumerated this time as Mrs. Jane Hunter, with her two sons. Her daughter Mary (Mollie) had married at age 15 to J.T. Waldrop, age 18, with her mother's consent. (see Marriage Bond)

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• Hunter, Mrs Jane 35 Keeping house NC
• Charles 19 Carpenters SC
• Samuel 15 Farmer NC

Jane died about 1888. What became of her children? Mollie was married to Joe Waldrop and living in Beulah, near Mill Spring, Polk County, NC.

Searches for a Samuel Hunter born in 1865 in NC lead only to a Samuel Hunter, a bricklayer in Washington, SC, born in NC who is married to a woman named Jennie, born in Delaware, married about 1895, with a young son John W. born about 1898 and a daughter Frances born circa 1908. They are at 2322 G St. NW in the 1900 and living on M St. in the 1910 census. Sam must have died, because by 1920 Jennie and Frances are living as boarders in Arlington, Virginia.

I can't find any trace of son Charles after the 1880 census.

• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Mar 10 2016, 5:26:43 UTC