Louis Lafayette Hunter and his wife, nee Lida Mary Tunnicliff, of Shenandoah, Iowa, were married December 1900 in Shenandoah. Lou and Lida (Tunnicliff) Hunter spent their lives in Shenandoah.  Their children were Joseph Porter, Nellie Marie, Paul Edward and Marian Eleanor.

Both Lou and Lida were born in 1877.  He died in 1962.  Lida died in 1949.