Dear Hunter researchers, The following inscription from a gravestone in the churchyard at Orton, near Kendal, England makes sad reading: "The trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised up. What is now unknown, the Judgement Day shall reveal. Erected by an affectionate Father to commemorate the melancholy death of an only son who, on the night of Saturday Nov 18, 1837, upon his return from Kendal was waylaid and shot dead by a daring assassain and his money taken from him in a solitary lane not far from his own door. Thomas HUNTER of Archer Hill was cut down as a flower in the 32nd year of his age. By his loss an endearing wife and three children were bereft of their kind protector." Life can be very cruel, sometimes... From: Nigel Hunter, Kendal, Westmorland (Cumbria since 1974), England E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.sagittarius.demon.co.uk/kendalhunters.htm Cumbria Family History Society member no.5207, researching:- HUNTER in and around Kendal, Westmorland, England HUNTER in Nelson, Lancashire and Clitheroe, Lancashire, England SPROAT in and around Carlisle, Cumberland, England MORIN in Co Durham, England