Samuel William "Sam" HUNTER

  General Notes:

1920 Greenbrier Co., WV Census - Kieffer Precinct No. 5 of Meadow Bluff

#7 Hunter, Sam W.29Head
Jessie R. 25Wife
Mary Ethel 4-5/12Daughter
William M. 1-4/12Son
Crane, Loman L.16Brother-in-Law
Hunter, Mary K.67Mother


The Charleston Daily Mail, Thursday, 19 November 1970

RAINELLE - Samuel William Hunter, 81, of Rupert, Greenbrier County, a member of the Beaver Creek Baptist Church at Kieffer, died Wednesday in Alley's Rest Home at Rupert.

Survivors: daughter, Mrs. Ethel Hess of Dunbar; sons, Melvin of St. Albans, Leslie with the Air Force in Tokyo, Japan, Warren of Washington, D.C.; brothers, Jennings of Kieffer, George of McRoss; half brother, Wade Hunter of Rainelle; half sister, Mrs. Annie Sanford of Rainelle.

Service will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at the Don Smathers Funeral Home here with the Rev. Charles W. Ambrose, Jr. officiating. Burial will be in End of the Trail Cemetery at Clintonville.

Friends may call the funeral home.

Sam married ? SLOAN about 1912. (? SLOAN died about 1912.)

Sam next married Jessie Ray CRANE, daughter of William Samuel "Bill" CRANE and Eliza Catherine "Kate" SHAWVER, on 28 Aug 1913 in Greenbrier Co., WV.⁴⁵³ (Jessie Ray CRANE was born on 10 Feb 1893 in Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier Co., WV,^455,456 died on 12 Apr 1930 in Rupert, Greenbrier Co., WV ⁴⁵⁶ and was buried on 13 Apr 1930 in Kieffer, Greenbrier Co., WV ⁴⁵⁶.)

Sam next married Bessie J. BLAKE on 1 Dec 1931 in Rupert, Greenbrier Co., WV.⁴⁵⁴ (Bessie J. BLAKE was born in 1907 in Greenbrier Co., WV,⁴⁶ died on 6 Nov 1952 in Ronceverte, Greenbrier Co., WV ⁴⁵⁷ and was buried in End Of The Trail Cemetery, Clintonville, Greenbrier Co., WV.)

Sam next married Emma Grace BASHAM on 26 Dec 1954 in Greenbrier Co., WV. (Emma Grace BASHAM was born on 11 Feb 1894 in Jumping Branch, Summers Co., WV,⁵⁵ died on 4 Mar 1966 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., OH ^55,61 and was buried on 7 Mar 1966 in Restwood Cemetery, Hinton, Summers Co., WV ¹¹⁵.)