Posted on: Marshall Co. Tn Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tn/Marshall?read=803 Surname: Hunter, Cummings, Smiley ------------------------- 1.1.1 ROBERT HUNTER (b. 13 April 1749; d. 3 May 1835) married Rebecca Cummings (d. 7 December 1832, aged 72 years). He came from Ireland with his father, John Hunter, when he was ten years old; grew up and married in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, where all his children were born; moved to Tennessee about 1805, and in 1810 established his home on Rock Creek in Marshall County. He and his wife were members of the Bethbirei Presbyterian Church (commonly known as Rock Creek Church), organized 1 June 1810 (He was a charter member and Second Director (Assistant Superintendent) of the Sunday School, organized 6 August 1827.); and they were buried in Bethbirei Churchyard, about two miles from Farmington. Children, eight: Mary, John Ebenezer, Charles Edwin, Ephraim, Priscilla, Eunice, Elihu Whitfield, and Tirzah. 1.1.1.6 EUNICE HUNTER (b. 25 January 1796) married John Cummings. One child, Thomas. 1.1.1.6.1 THOMAS CUMMINGS married Marcissa Smiley. Children, three, John, Knox, and Fannie. Thomas moved to West Tennessee at the beginning of the war and died or was killed in the war. I have additional info on this family if you are interested.