Joseph C. Hunter
Joseph C. Hunter, proprietor of a farm of nearly two hundred acres in Bath township, this county, residing on rural mail route No 2 out of Yellow Springs, is a native of Tennessee, born in Williamson county, that state, October 10, 1860, son of Jerome Lilly, a Cherokee Indian, and Dorcas Hunter, a slave of Henry Hunter. The mother died in 1897 and the father is now living in Toronto, Canada. Reared on a farm in Tennessee, Joseph Hunter was schooled in the district schools and upon reaching manhood's estate began farming. He married in 1883 and for twenty-one years thereafter continued farming in Tennessee, sixteen years of that period also being engaged in the threshing business during seasons. In 1904 he came to Ohio and settled in Greene county, the next year buying the farm on which he now lives, and on which he has since been engaged in general farming and stock raising. He is a Republican and he and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Yellow Springs.
On December 27, 1883, at Union City, Tennessee. Joseph Hunter was united in marriage to Ellen Johnson, of that place, daughter of Lee Eddings and Sarah N. Johnson, both of whom are still living, and to this union have been born ten children, namely: Savannah, who married William Edwards, now farming in Miami township, this county; Robert, who is assisting his father in the management of the home farm and who married Winnie Pettiford; Queen Esther, who married Clayton G. Mills, now living at Clifton; Herman, who was pursuing his studies with the design of entering the medical profession at Nashville, Tennessee, and is now connected with the medical corps of the United States army; Clay Evans, who was graduated from Wilberforce University in 1917 and is now (1918) a second lieutenant in the National Army of the United States, stationed at Camp Funston; Joseph, who is assisting on the farm; Cecil, who is now a student in Wilberforce University; Ruby, a student in the high school at Fairfield, and Lester and Waudell, also in school. Joseph Hunter has one hundred and ninety-seven and six-tenths acres in his farm, makes a specialty of raising Holstein cattle and has a fine herd of thirty head on his place.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918