(Submitted by listowner on behalf of:) From: [email protected] To: [email protected] YOU DO NOT KNOW how much I appreciate this info!!!!! I have been stuck on Catherine (no last name) & for a couple of years, having made several trips to Meigs County from Texas. Do you have the name of the book? I am descended from Dorcas' brother John P. Hunter. Is anyone working that line? > I cannot recall what the original question was on Dorcas Hunter, but I had to > go dig in my stored files to get the few pages of the book i had, it was > Hutcheson and Allied Families, from the Chattanooga,TN public library. > At any rate it says Dorcas Hunter was the Daughter of Samuel Hunter and > Catherine Poteet, Dorcas was born April 19, 1830 in Buncombe Co, moved to > Meigs Co, Tn with her parents when she was about 3 years old (1833) she > married William Caswell Hutcheson on October 23, 1850, and died January 5, > 1922 in Chattanooga, Tn. Dorcas was named for her maternal grandmother, > Dorcas Henderson Poteet. Colonel James Poteet was the grandfather of Dorcas > Hunter Hutcheson. Dorcas' father, Samuel HUnter was a brother to my great, > great grandfather, Robert Hunter. so Dorcas would have been a first cousin, > four times removed to me. Samuel and Robert Hunter were sons of William > HUnter of Buncombe County, it also says in the book that WIlliam lived in > Rutherford Co, NC before moving to Buncombe Co, if he did indeed move, as > Buncombe County was formed in part from part of Rutherford County, NC, (I am > embarrassed to say I forgot to give thought to that small detail.) > There is also speculation in "the book" that Williams father was a Samuel > HUnter, as a Samuel HUnter was on the tax list of Rutherford County in > 1782.!!! > Also states that William HUnter went over the mountains to Greene County, Tn > to find Anne Caldwell, but I have checked this out, and there is not anything > I could find in Greene County, Tn to prove this, (I wondered if she might > have meant Greenville, SC ?) Or even Greene County, NC ? Oh, well. > I only have a few pages of this book, but I hope this is helpful to someone. > > Genie > -- Ron Cushman [email protected] Ontario, CANADA