This article was taken from *NC Rebuilding an Ancient Commonwealth 1584-1925, Vol. VIV, p. 418-419. CHARLES LAMAR HUNSUCKER, M. D., who is engaged in the active general practice of his profession at Hickory, Catawba County, was born in Conover, this county, November 17, 1890, and is the son of Wilburn J. and Alice (Dellinger) Hunsucker, who now reside in Conover, the father being a retired brick contractor. Both the Hunsucker and Dellinger families were founded in Catawba County in the pioneer days and both were representatives of staunch German pioneers in the state of Pennsylvania. Lawson A. Hunsucker and Logan Dellinger, grandfathers of Doctor Hunsucker, were loyal soldiers of the Confederacy in the Civil War. In 1909 Doctor Hunsucker received from Concordia College the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 1913 he was graduated from North Carolina Medical College, from which he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine, and in which he became affiliated with the Phi Chi fraternity. After his graduation the Doctor was engaged in practice at Drexel, Burke County, until 1915, and he has since been established in practice in the city of Hickory, where he specialized in obstetrics and pediatrics. In the World War period he served in the Medical Corps of the United States army, with the rank of first lieutenant. Doctor Hunsucker has membership in the Catawba County, the Tri County and the North Carolina State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association, is a member of the Kiwanis Club at hickory, and he and his wife hold membership in Corinth Reformed Church. In the Masonic fraternity he has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, is a Knight Templar and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. Doctor Hunsucker married Miss Fleta Moore, who likewise was born and reared in Catawba County and who is a daughter of H. Lewis Moore, a retired farmer who is a representative of one of the old and influential families of this county. Doctor and Mrs. Hunsucker have three children: Clara, Helen and Charles L., Jr. Joy