FOURTH GENERATION

89. Milberry Hunter was born on 12 Mar 1810 in Davidson County, Tennessee. She appeared on the census on 1 Nov 1850 in Williamson County, Illinois. ⁽²⁹⁹⁾ She appeared on the census on 28 Jun 1860 in P. O. Marion, Williamson County, Illinois.⁽³⁰⁰⁾ She died on 14 Mar 1864 in Williamson County, Illinois.

She was married to Luke Ralls Jr. (son of Luke Rawls and Jane) in 1826. Luke Ralls Jr. was born in 1802 in Tennessee. He appeared on the census in 1830 in Franklin County, Illinois.⁽³⁰¹⁾ He appeared on the census in 1840 in Williamson County, Illinois. ⁽³⁰²⁾ He died on 11 Apr 1848 in Williamson County, Illinois.

GALLATIN. SALINE, HAMILTON, FRANKLIN, WILLIAMSON Co. IL HISTORY Goodspeed 1887, p. 933:

A. Luke Ralls.

A. Luke Ralls, farmer and pension agent, was born in his present residence in Lake Creek Township, in 1843 the seventh of eight children of Luke and Milbery (Hunter) Ralls, natives of Robertson County, Tenn., born about 1802 and 1810 respectively. The father, of Welsh-English stock was the son of Luke Ralls, Sr., native of near Petersburg, Va., and a pioneer of Tennessee, his permanent home. The father came to Williamson County in 1822, and in 1826 married and settled on our subject's present home where he spent his life as a farmer, cooper and shoemaker, and one of the county's earliest settlers. The wild animals suffered from his excellent marksmanship, and he was familiarly known and esteemed throughout the county. He died April 11, 1848.
Milberry Hunter and Luke Ralls Jr. had the following children:

+327 i. Sidney A. Ralls.
+328 ii. Margaret Elizabeth Ralls.
329 iii. George Washington Ralls⁽³⁰³⁾ was born on 8 Feb 1838 in Williamson County, Illinois. He appeared on the census on 6 Jul 1880 in Lake Creek Township, Williamson County, Illinois. ⁽³⁰⁴⁾ He appeared on the census on 3 Jun 1900 in Lake Creek Township, Williamson County, Illinois.⁽³⁰⁵⁾ He died on 9 May 1903.
+330 iv. Mary Mariah Ralls.
331 v. Allen Luke Ralls was born in Jun 1843 in Williamson County, Illinois. He appeared on the census on 6 Jul 1880 in Lake Creek Township, Williamson County, Illinois.⁽³⁰⁶⁾ He appeared on the census on 4 Jun 1900 in Lake Creek Township, Williamson County, Illinois. ⁽³⁰⁷⁾

GALLATIN. SALINE, HAMILTON, FRANKLIN, WILLIAMSON Co. IL HISTORY Goodspeed 1887. p. 933


A. Luke Ralls.

A. Luke Ralls, farmer and pension agent, was born in his present residence in Lake Creek Township, in 1843 the seventh of eight children of Luke and Milbery (Hunter) Ralls, natives of Robertson County, Tenn., born about 1802 and 1810 respectively. The father, of Welsh-English stock was the son of Luke Ralls, Sr., native of near Petersburg, Va., and a pioneer of Tennessee, his permanent home. The father came to Williamson County in 1822, and in I826 married and settled on our subject's present home where he spent his life as a farmer, cooper and shoemaker, and one of the county's earliest settlers. The wild animals suffered from his excellent marksmanship, and he was familiarly known and esteemed throughout the county. He died April 11, 1848.

The mother, a daughter of Manuel Hunter mentioned elsewhere, who is supposed to have been a cousin of the Hunter who killed the British general, Packenham, at the battle of New Orleans. She died March 15, 1864, a member of the United Baptist Church. Their children are Mrs. Sidney A. Daugherty, Mrs. Margaret E. Moake, George W., Mrs. Mary M. Ward, our subject and William G., three of whom are living on the old home of their birth, an eighty-acre farm on Bear Creek so named from the killing of bruin's species on its banks, five miles northwest of Marion. The farm belongs to George W. and our subject; the former, born in 1837, served from August, 1862, to July, 1865, in Company F., One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Illinois, afterward in Company F., Ninth Illinois Mounted Infantry, in nineteen important battles and others, without wound or capture or absence from duty, and was one year on the Solomon Valley Railway (Kansas), and three years foreman of a section on the Kansas Pacific Railway, near Lawrence, Kas., since when he has been a farmer.

Our subject has been pension agent for the last eight years. He was educated chiefly at Carbondale, taught for several years, and for many years served as school trustee. Both are earnest Democrats and Odd Fellows. The latter is a Mason, and member of the F. M. B. A., and of the Christian Church, of which be is a prominent worker. He is secretary of the Fergess Sunday-scbool, and was secretary of the County Sunday-school Association in 1883-84.


+332 vi. James William Gratton Ralls.