WILLIAM WALLACE HUNTER.
The founder of this family in Virginia, great grandfather of the subject
of this sketch, was James Hunter, born in Londonderry, Ireland, in
1764, came to America from the Island of St. Christophers in 1783,
died March 8, 1821, was a merchant and member of the firm of Allison
& Hunter. James Hunter and Miss J. Rodgers were married February
28, 1783.
His son William Frayze Hunter, grandfather of William Wallace, was
born February 15, 1787, and died November 15, 1822. William
Frayze Hunter and Henrietta Louise Andre were married July 10, 1810.
William Henry Hunter, son of William Frayze, and father of William
Wallace, was born November 15, 1814, and died March 4, 1882, at
time of his death was Clerk of the Courts of the City of Norfolk, Virginia.
William Henry Hunter and Eliza Frances Wallace were married
May 25, 1837.
William Wallace Hunter was born in Norfolk, on January 24, 1840.
He attended school at the Norfolk Military Academy, and entered the
Confederate Army in April, 1861. He was made prisoner at Roanoke
Island, North Carolina, in February, 1862, and paroled until September,
1862, from which time till the close of the war he was in constant
service in the Army of the Confederate States. After the close of the
war he went to New York, and engaged in the cotton commission business,
member of the firms of Dancy, Hyman & Co., of New York, and
Hymans & Dancy, of Norfolk. From these firms he withdrew in 1878,
since which time he has resided in Norfolk. He has been city treasurer
of Norfolk since July 1, 1885, and is now serving his second term of
three years.
In Norfolk, October 20, 1880, Rev. N. A. Okeson, D. D., united in
marriage William Wallace Hunter and Sophia E. Grandy. The bride
was born in Norfolk, a daughter of C. W. Grandy, who was born July,
1808, and died March 18, 1874, and Ann D. Grandy, nee Dozier, who
died March 15, 1882.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wallace Hunter have one son, Charles Grandy Hunter
and one daughter, Henrietta Louise Hunter. They have buried one
daughter, Kate Wallace Hunter, born January 6, 1883, died March 26,
1884.
