> << Tom, > I have a Thomas Hunter, b. ca. 1836 with both a brother and a father named > William. I always assumed, from the 1850 census, that Thomas was older, but > maybe > the census had it wrong? There were several other siblings listed, of which > one > was Jared Ware Hunter, b. ca. 1838. Anything sound familiar? > Barbara >> > > Barbara, do you have their birthplaces and where they lived and died? > > I have a William Henry Hunter, who married Mary Rose Barlow on October 7th, > 1869, in Adams County, Illinois. I don't have his birthplace or date, waiting > for marriage certificate from Ill. > Carla Hunter Southwick > Carla, I don't know where William Sr. was born but he was living somewhere in PA when Thomas and Jared were born (I think Warren Co.). I don't know where he died, but probably in PA. Both Thomas and Jared died in Blaine, Whatcom Co., WA in the early 1900's. I don't know anything about William Jr. and the other siblings except what shows on the 1850 Fed. census. If the order of the children listed is correct then I would assume William Jr. to have been born about 1840 so it is entirely possible he COULD be your William. I just have no idea. From the names of the children listed on that census I am positive that William Sr.'s wife was NOT Jane CARR(E), though her given name was Jane. (Oh, for an few UNUSUAL names, like GOOGLEFRITZ! As you have undoubtedly found, there must be several thousand William and Thomas HUNTER's out there!) Barbara