Rachel R. Hunter 1844-1925

HUNTER

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Date: 9/6/2014 at 08:35:44

Mrs. Rachel R. Hunter, for sixty-five years a resident of Montgomery county, nearly fifty years of which she spent in the vicinity of Villisca, died Saturday at her home in Red Oak after an illness of fourteen weeks.

She was born in Ohio on Aug. 26, 1844, and at the age of fifteen years she came with her parents to Villisca. In 1865 she was married to James D. Baker, who owned and operated the first blacksmith shop in Villisca. To this union eleven children were born, two sons and two daughters of whom are deceased. Those surviving are Mrs. W. H. Davis, J. Arthur, and George Baker, Red Oak; Samuel C., Shenandoah; Harry A., Des Moines; Guy R., Graff, Neb.; and Newton I., Panora, Iowa. All of the children were with their mother at the time of her death. The husband and father died in 1894.

In 1903 Mrs. Baker was married to George Hunter, who passed away in 1907. In that year she went to Red Oak, and since that time made her home with her daughter, Mrs. W. H. Davis. Besides her children she leaves one brother, David Russell of Beaconsfield, Iowa, who with the seven children were present at the funeral. Twenty-three grandchildren and twenty-two great grandchildren also survive.

Mrs. Hunter was a member of the Baptist church, which organization she joined when whe was fourteen years of age. The body was brought to Villisca on No. 4 Monday afternoon and the funeral held in the Baptist church here, with Rev. Richmond A. Smith, Pastor of the Baptist church in Red Oak, in charge of the service, assisted by Rev. J. L. Boyd, pastor of the Methodist church of Villisca. Interment was in the Villisca cemetery beside the first husband of the deceased.

Those besides the children and the brother who were here for the funeral were Samuel W. and Jas. D. Baker, Lincoln, Neb.; Mrs. Tressie Mendenall, Elmwood, Neb.; W. H. Davis and Mark Adams, Red Oak; and Harold Baker, Omaha.

Villisca Review, Villisca, Iowa, Friday, February 27, 1925