Joseph Hunter was born 15 March 1791 in Pickens County, South Carolina. His parents were Henry Hunter and Barbara Bolinger. He married Elizabeth Moyers (1793-1862) 7 March 1813 in Speedwell, Tennessee. They had eleven children. Joseph died in 1879. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Tennessee, Ohio, Michigan and Switzerland.

First Families of Tennessee is a tribute to these men and women who established the state.

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Henry Keck served in the army of Frederick William (1688-1740), King of Prussia, and in 1732 immigrated to Philadelphia. He settled at Big Springs near Allentown, Pennsylvania.

The descendants of Sir Mathew ap Evan, knighted in 1386 by Richard II, took the surname Mathews, dropping the Welsh "ap", or "son of." George Mathews is the first of the line to come to America; he emigrated in 1720 from somewhere in Northern Ireland, probably near Ballynure between Belfast and Ballymena, to Pennsylvania, afterwards removing to Augusta County, Virginia. Four of George's sons -- Alexander, George, Jeremiah, and Allen -- who spelled the family name as Mathes, moved to Washington County, Tennessee.

A twelfth-century poem by the creator of the Arthurian romance describes the courageous exploits and triumphs of a brave lord who tries to win back his deserted wife's love