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OBITUARY
A. J. Hunter, 67, Plessis, Expires
Prominent Farmer and Stock Buyer Dies
Alexandria Assessor 18 Years
Funeral Services to Be Held From Home Wednesday Afternoon - Died in House of Good Samaritan
Plessis, January 2, 1934 - Alvaro J. Hunter, 67, died at the House of the Good Samaritan Monday after a long illness.
He had been in poor health for the past year, but was active until November when he was confined to the house with mastoid and spleen trouble. He was taken to the House of the Good Samaritan for observation and treatment by Dr. M. M. Hall last Thursday.
Mr. Hunter was a prominent farmer and stock buyer and had held the office of assessor for 18 years.
He was born October 10, 1866, son of Thomas and Ann Dayton Hunter. October 13, 1886 he married Ida Blevins of Plessis. The couple lived on the Hunter Farm for 17 years, then bought the Corliss farm near the village now owned and occupied by Earl Hunter, later moving to the village where they since have resided.
Four sons, Ross, Charles, Earl and Ronald, with Mrs. Hunter, survive him. All of them reside on farms within a radius of three miles of the village. He also leaves twelve grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Minnie Bacon of Philadelphia.
Funeral services will be held at the home Wednesday afternoon at 2, Rev. W. J. Hancock officiating. Burial will be in Brookside Cemetery (Plessis). The bearers will be Walter Bacon, Winfield Bacon, William Shannon, Leslie Parker, Claude Makepeace and Leslie Skinner.
His death certificate would be found in Watertown.
General Index of Wills
Alvaro J. Hunter Box 83 vol. 6 page 473 exec. Earl A. Hunter 1/12/1934
A Conversation Overheard by Greg Hunter between Paul Hunter and Lora Hunter Bragg during the summer of 1978
Alvaro Hunter lived on what was Ross Hunter s farm on Hunter Road, Plessis, NY. He moved to the Plessis farm in 1903 when Ronald was being weaned. Gram ______ took Ronald to a bedroom upstairs so he wouldn t disturb everyone. This was also when Ross Hunter married Harriet Wilson, Lora s half sister.
Thomas, Alvaro s father, owned Ross farm before Alvaro. When his wife died he went to live with Alvaro. Thomas is buried in the Plessis Cemetery.
Alvaro died in the bitter cold of January 1934 of an enlarged spleen (cancer?). Paul spent nights with his grandmother, Ida Blevins Hunter and did chores - there were cattle in the barn, heifers, calves sucking, and Paul had to pump water by hand for the young cattle.
Paul remembers riding with his grandfather, Alvaro, in a horse and buggy - an old gray horse.
Paul Hunter remembers (March 2000):
Allie bought his father s farm, the Corliss farm in Plessis, Charles/Roy/Leon s farm and the home in Plessis where Alvaro and Ida retired to.
Alvaro borrowed $5000 from Claude Makepeace to buy Charles farm.
Alvaro owed $5000 when he died. Earl Hunter settled the estate.
Earl gave Ida $15 a month to live on after Alvaro died. She was furnished wood to burn by Ross, fresh milk from Earl s farm and slaughtered meat was shared with her - canned, salted, always a pot on the stove with meat in it.
Charles worked his farm for his father, Alvaro.
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