Household #113: Hunter, Dan

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In the 1900 Barney census, Dan Hunter headed a 7-person household. The table below preserves the exact names, relationships, ages, birthplaces, and occupations recorded for the household.

Household Snapshot

Dan Hunter headed a 7-person household in the 1900 Barney census with 6 children.

Dan Hunter's listed occupation was Seamster.

All listed household members were reported as born in Georgia.

Newspaper and Public-Record Trail

This section flags public-record leads separate from the census table. The detailed discussion stays in the family narrative, research status, and source citations below.

1900 Census Household

Children and Later Trails

This section is reserved for later-life child evidence. No later spouse, death, burial, obituary, probate, separate household, or descendant-line identification has been added here yet from direct records.

Family Narrative

• Children in 1900: Augustus, Ethel, Elias, Johnson, and infant Mary Hunter

This household has a stronger record backbone than the earlier stub suggested. The best-supported continuation is the 1910 Valdosta household of Daniel W. Hunter and wife Mary, where the ages, names, and family structure align closely with the 1900 Barney household. The best front-end marriage record is now more than an index reference. The original Brooks County marriage record shows D. W. Hunter and Mary J. Mobley, with license dated 25 September 1890 and marriage performed 30 September 1890. That record fits the 1900 couple well and is the best current identification for Mary.

The Ancestry detail pages also strengthen the census backbone. In 1900, Dan Hunter was reported born in January 1867 in Georgia, married nine years, with both parents born in Georgia, able to read and write, employed as a seamster, and owner of his home. In 1910, Daniel W. Hunter in Valdosta was again reported with Georgia-born parents, able to read and write, and living with Mary and the expected child cluster. Those details improve the continuity between the two households.

Dan Hunter can also be placed provisionally in an earlier household. In 1880, a Daniel Hunter, age 13, appears in Valdosta in the household of Harry Hunter and Julia Hunter. That remains the best current parent candidate for Dan, though it should still be treated as a leading identification rather than closed proof. The parent reading is stronger than before because Walter Hunter's 1930 Lowndes County death certificate names his father as Harry Hunter, born in South Carolina, and his mother as Julia Duncan, born in Georgia. Walter was of the right place and generation to support the reality of that parent couple in the same local Hunter line.

The child lines are uneven, but several are beginning to separate into clearer confidence tiers. Johnson Hunter is the strongest traced line. The likely chain runs from the 1900 Barney child born in April 1898 to the 1910 Valdosta household, then to the Lowndes County marriage of Johnson Hunter and Idella Jones on 4 September 1919, and later to Johnson Hunter in Orlando, Florida, including a 1942 World War II draft card giving birth date 20 April 1898 and birthplace Valdosta, Georgia. One caution remains: the later Florida line shows wife Gertrude, while the 1919 marriage is to Idella Jones. Until a divorce, death, remarriage, or other bridge record is found, that Johnson line should be treated as strong but not fully closed.

Elias Hunter is also on fairly solid ground as a likely later child in the same family. The best current reading is that the 1900 child Elias, age 3, is the same child later read in 1910 as Catrill E. Hunter. The family slot, age range, birthplace, and parent set line up well enough to make that the leading explanation.

Ethel Hunter is a good candidate for the Ethel Hunter who married Yancy Wheeler in Lowndes County on 21 March 1912. That reading is supported by the 1920 Valdosta household of Yancy and Ethel Wheeler with child Ethal May Wheeler. A later cluster of Ethel Wheeler records in Duval County, Florida, once looked promising, but those records now appear to belong to a different woman with a Simpson connection and should be excluded from this family.

Other children remain less settled. Augustus Hunter has not yet been identified securely after 1900. Infant Mary Hunter, born in April 1900, has no safe later identification yet. The likely 1910 continuation adds younger children not present in 1900, including Loamy, Maceo, Emma, Dan W. Hunter Jr., and Taft. Emma Hunter may be the woman later found in Empress, Brooks County, as wife of Jack Hunter in 1920 and 1930, but that remains plausible rather than proved. Dan W. Hunter Jr. is firmly anchored in the 1910 household, but no safe later bridge has been found, and a 1914 Lowndes County marriage for Dan Hunter and Victoria Rhea was correctly rejected as belonging to a different man.

Taken together, the strongest framework for the household is this: the 1890 Brooks County marriage of D. W. Hunter and Mary J. Mobley, the 1900 Barney household of Dan and Mary Hunter, the 1910 Valdosta household of Daniel W. and Mary Hunter, and the 1880 Valdosta placement of Daniel Hunter with Harry and Julia Hunter as the best current parent candidate. That is a solid working structure, though several child lines remain open and some of the later placements still need direct proof.

Connections to Other Barney Families

• The original 1890 Brooks County marriage record for D. W. Hunter and Mary J. Mobley is the best current match for the 1900 couple.
• Daniel Hunter in the 1880 Valdosta household of Harry and Julia Hunter remains the best parent candidate for Dan Hunter.
• Walter Hunter's 1930 death certificate strengthens that parent-candidate reading by naming Harry Hunter and Julia Duncan.
• Daniel W. Hunter and Mary in 1910 Valdosta are a strong continuation of the 1900 Barney household.
• Johnson Hunter is the strongest traced child line, though the Idella Jones to Gertrude transition still needs a bridge.
• Ethel Hunter likely became Ethel Wheeler, but later Duval County Ethel Wheeler records should be excluded from this family.

Open Research Questions

• Dan Hunter still needs a death, burial, probate, or land record that confirms his later life and family placement.
• Mary Hunter still needs a later record confirming that she was Mary J. Mobley of the 1890 Brooks County marriage.
• Johnson Hunter needs records that explain the shift from wife Idella Jones to later wife Gertrude.
• Emma Hunter needs parent-naming records before she can be safely attached to the Jack Hunter household in Empress.
• Augustus Hunter still needs broader variant searching under Gus, August, Aug, or A. Hunter.
• Infant Mary Hunter still needs any later census, marriage, or death record.
• Dan W. Hunter Jr. still needs a later bridge after 1910.

Research Status

Further research needed. The household now has a strong working structure across the original 1890 marriage record, the 1900 Barney census, the 1910 Valdosta continuation, and the likely 1880 parent household for Dan, with the Walter Hunter death certificate adding support to the Harry Hunter and Julia Duncan parent-candidate line. Several child lines are promising, especially Johnson, Elias, and Ethel, but enough gaps remain that the entry should stay open rather than be treated as closed.

Sources

• 1880 United States Federal Census, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, household of Harry Hunter and Julia Hunter including Daniel Hunter
• Brooks County, Georgia, original marriage record, license dated 25 September 1890 and marriage performed 30 September 1890, D. W. Hunter and Mary J. Mobley
• 1900 United States Federal Census, Barney, Brooks County, Georgia, household of Dan Hunter
• Ancestry 1900 census detail page for Dan Hunter, confirming January 1867 birth month, Georgia-born parents, literacy, seamster occupation, nine-year marriage, and owner-occupied home
• 1910 United States Federal Census, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, household of Daniel W. Hunter and Mary Hunter
• Ancestry 1910 census detail page for Daniel W. Hunter, confirming Georgia-born parents, literacy, and the later child cluster
• 1920 United States Federal Census, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, for later child-line follow-up
• Lowndes County, Georgia, marriage record, 21 March 1912, Ethel Hunter and Yancy Wheeler
• Lowndes County, Georgia, marriage record, 4 September 1919, Johnson Hunter and Idella Jones
• World War II draft card, Johnson Hunter, 1942, Orlando, Orange County, Florida
• Georgia death certificate, Walter Hunter, died 20 January 1930, Lowndes County, Georgia, naming father Harry Hunter of South Carolina and mother Julia Duncan of Georgia
• Find a Grave search review for Dan Hunter, Mary Hunter, and related lines, negative during this research pass

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